Tag: State News

Bhubaneswar: Reiterating the CBI probe demand into the mining scam in the State, BJP State unit president KV Singh Deo here at a Press conference said, “Ever since the MB Shah Commission report on Odisha’s mining scam was leaked, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government has gone into an overdrive. They have written to the Centre […]

Bhubaneswar: The three-day fourth international management convention-IMC’2014 being organized by Asian School of Business Management (ASBM) kicked off here at the ASBM on Thursday. Intellectuals from across the globe including countries like USA, Nepal, France have come together to attend the convention. The topic of the convention is ‘Business of Being in Business: New Prospective.’ […]

Bhubaneswar: The Nikhila Utkal Sankirtan Mahasangha, which represents over 1 lakh Sankirtan artists throughout the State as its members, threatened to hold a mass protest rally here in front of State Assembly on February 12 to press their longstanding demands.  More than 5,000 members will participate in the rally. Coming down heavily on the Government […]

Bhubaneswar: Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anil Kumar Jha who was appointed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) as the special observer for the Rajya Sabha polls scheduled to be held on February 7, arrived here at Bhubaneswar. Jha will keep a watch on electoral malpractices, if any, including role of money power and […]

Bhubaneswar: Putting all the speculations to rest, BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced the name of party corporator of ward no-56 K Shanti as the Deputy Mayor of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). K Shanti was elected as the BMC Deputy Mayor, BMC Commissioner Sanjib Mishra announced.

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha member Dr Prasanna Patasani has conferred the Verisign Cyber Ratna Award to OdishaDiary, a news website editor Rashmi Ranjan Parida at a glittering function here. Verisign SMB WEB Summit was sponsored by Verisign INC, USA (Worlds Top Domain Registry) and supported by Go daddy India (World’s Largest Registrar).   “Orissadiary.com (OD) has […]

DHENKANAL: In a shocking incident, unidentified miscreants murdered four members of a family including two women in Joranda, the famous seat of Mahima cult, on Sunday. Sources said local people found bodies of their neighbour a mason by profession, Makardhwaj Behera, his wife, son and daughter, with their throat slit open, in the early morning […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police on Tuesday introduced a unique facility named an Instant Complaint Logging Internet Kiosk (ICLIK) in order to check crime against women in Bhubaneswar. This unique IT invention to control crimes against women is being implemented for the first time in any city in India. The kiosk was installed in the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Airport Advisory Committee meeting which was held on Monday at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here under the chairmanship of Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha member Dr Prasanna Patsani discussed many issues related to passenger facilitation aimed at making a user-friendly airport, handling of congestion at airport, cargo operations, and points related to airport functioning, […]

Bhubaneswar: Nirnaya Trust, a women organization has successfully conducted the inaugural ceremony of its new computer lab with the donation from State Bank of India, local head office (LHO), Bhubaneswar on Sunday on the occasion of Republic Day at Nirnaya office premises, Jaydev Vihar here. The SBI has donated 10 used computers, 10 computer tables/chairs […]