Tag: State News

Bhubaneswar: Terming the Odisha Lokayukta Bill, 2014, which was passed in the Assembly on Friday as ‘weak’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) State unit on Saturday alleged that the Bill has no provision to ensure safety and security to complainant and also ignored many basic things. “The Odisha Lokayukta Bill, 2014 is not just a […]

Vishal Dev new Industries Secy  Bhubaneswar: The State Government on Friday effected a minor reshuffle in the bureaucracy and appointed 1996-batch IAS officer Vishal Dev as the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Industries Department. However, he will continue as the CMD of IDCO and IDCOL. As per a General Administration Department notification issued on Friday, 1988-batch IAS officer Parag […]

Bhubaneswar: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Thursday appointed Union Chemicals and Fertilisers minister Srikant Jena as the chairman of the Odisha Congress campaign committee. Jena would oversee the party preparations for the ensuing Assembly and general elections. Besides Jena, 24 members like Kalahandi MP Bhakta Das, PCC president Jayadev Jena, Congress chief whip […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday inaugurated the most ambitious project e-Vidyalaya of School and Mass Education Department. In the first phase the project will be implemented in 4,000 high schools under ICT. Later, it will be extended to additional 2000 high schools. Through this project the teachers would be teaching through Smart Board […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has bagged the award in best stall decoration category in a colourful ceremony at the TTE and OTM Mumbai, India’s biggest travel and tourism fair held from February 7 to 9.  A delegation led by Tourism director M. R. Patnaik along with 18 tour operators, hoteliers, travel agents from Odisha participated in the […]

Three still missing Sambalpur: Special Relief Commissioner Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra on Monday informed that with the recovery of 18 more bodies from the Hirakud dam, the death toll in the Sunday’s boat capsizing incident mounted to 29. Sources said three persons are still missing and the toll could go up to 31 if their bodies […]

Calls for a new law to prevent recurrence Bhubaneswar: Asking Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik not to take boat capsizing incident in Hirakud reservoir, where nearly 30 persons were feared killed lightly, former Minister and senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik urged him to ensure framing of a new law to prevent recurrence of these events in […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik has flayed the decision of the Odisha Assembly Speaker not to permit an opposition-sponsored adjournment motion on the full ramifications of the Shah Panel Report on the Odisha Mining Scam. The first two volumes of the justice Shah Commission’s report came to public light only last week and therefore […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major setback to Hi-Tech group chairman Tirupati Panigrahi, the Supreme Court has again rejected the bail pleas him and two of his associates in the land fraud case.  The Court has fixed March 31 as the next date for hearing. Sources said the apex court on Friday rejected Panigrahi’s bail plea as […]

Bhubaneswar: On a two day visit to the State Congress vice president and campaign committee chief, Rahul Gandhi will arrive here at Bhubaneswar on Sunday. He will arrive at the Biju Patnaik International Airport at 11 am and will head straight to Nehuru Yuva Kendra here, for an interaction with students and youths, told Odisha […]