Tag: State News

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik along with many senior leaders of his party on Wednesday filed their nominations for the ensuing Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. After performing worship at Tara Tarini Temple here, Patnaik filed four sets of nomination papers from Hinjili Assembly constituency in Ganjam district at the sub-collector’s […]

Bhubaneswar: A total of 3368 acute diarrhoea cases were detected out of which 29 died during 2013. Similarly there was 3287 cases of food poisioning and 18 deaths, 119 cases of measles and one death, 345 cases of jaundice and one death, 93 cases of anthrax and no death, 7132 cases of dengue and 6 […]

Bhubaneswar: The Samata Kranti Dal (SKD) on Saturday announced the names of 17 Assembly candidates for the first phase of the elections scheduled on April 10. While party president and sitting Biramitrapur MLA George Tirkey will contest from Biramitrapur Assembly constituency which is reserved for ST, Sitaram Satapathy will contest from Titlagarh, Geetanjali Pradhan from […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Nagarika Samaj (ONAS), a civil society alliance, demanded a CAG audit of the accounts of the power distribution companies in Odisha. This demanded here at consultation meeting on the ‘proposed hike in electricity tariff.’ Panchanan Kanungo, former minister and president ‘Odisha Vidyut Upabhokta Mahasangha’ termed proposed hike move as anti-people and urged the […]

Bhubaneswar: After announcing the names of 42 candidates on Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced its second list of 51 Assembly candidates. Party State convenor Nishikant Mohapatra announced the names at the State party office here. The names of candidates for 51 Assembly seats are Kishore Das (Moroda), Badal Hembram (Baripada), Dharmendra […]

Dhamra/Bhadrak: As many as 21 students of Dhamra Port periphery high schools, who had secured above 75 percent marks in the last High School Certificate (HSC) examination, were awarded DPCL Merit Scholarship.   At a function held within Dhamra Port premises Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DPCL Santosh Kumar Mohapatra, Chief Operating Officer Subrat Tripathy […]

Bhubaneswar: In the first phase the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday announced the names of its candidates for 42 Assembly seats. Party State convener Nishikant Mohapatra announced the names for 42 Assembly seats which falls under eight Lok Sabha constituencies at the State party office here. The names of 42 Assembly constituencies are Santosh […]

Bhubaneswar: More than 100 elderly people were screamed and counselled here at early kidney evaluation programme and check up camp here at Red Cross Bhawan being organized by the Indian Red Cross Society, Odisha State Branch (IRCS-OSB) in collaboration with Utkal Kidney Foundation and Apollo Hospital on the eve of the World Kidney Day. Senior […]

Bhubaneswar: Dish TV, Asia’s largest direct-to-home service provider on Friday announced the launch of “Zing”, an exciting new brand which has been specially conceptualized and customized keeping in mind new regional viewers that moving over to the digital platform.  With phase III and IV of digitization round the corner, ‘Zing’ a first-of-its-kind initiative by Dish […]

Bhubaneswar: The Paradip Port Trust (PPT) handled the highest ever record cargo of 61.84 million tonnes till February 2014 in the current financial year as compared to 51.41 million tonnes of cargo handled during the corresponding period of the previous year. This is an increase of 20.27% over the traffic handled during corresponding period of […]