Tag: State News

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader and  State BJP spokesperson Sameer Mohanty has alleged that peoples’ deposits with the Seashore group have been used in public projects by the Government, illegally against the interest of the depositors. “In a joint venture with the Government the deposited money were invested in OTDC and health projects of the State. […]

Bhubaneswar: For the second consecutive day, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday laid foundation stones for six projects including a 100-bed mother-child hospital at Capital Hospital, besides inaugurating six other projects at different places in the city. Among the projects the Chief Minister inaugurated include, a Sishu Udyan at Unit-II area, two underground reservoirs at […]

Buys  Chaturbhuj Meher’s hand crafted golden Zari work Ikkat Saree among others Aneetah Purryag (R) Bhubaneswar: Mauritius’s first lady and wife of President Rajkeswur Purryag, Aneetah Purryag on Thursday visited the iconic Mehers’ Showroom here during her visit to the State. She was fascinated by the Meher’s beautiful collections of creative hand-woven sarees and awesome […]

Bhubaneswar: The Center for Child and Women Development (CCWD) on Thursday celebrated Children’s day at Kalrahanga Chandan Ghar premise here. As many as 200 children from different slum pockets and city outskirts participated. Noted child novelist Sarat kumar Nayak participated as chief guest.   Nayak focused on child friendly environment. Among others State convener of […]

On the occasion of 9th convocation of KIIT University Bhubaneswar: The KIIT University is all set to hold its 9th annual convocation ceremony on Saturday. A total of 2783 students of 2012 – 13 graduating batch from all streams of the University would receive their degrees while gold and silver medals will also be awarded […]

Bhubaneswar: A total of 2,67,259 beneficiaries have received payment in Janani Surakshya Yojana (JSY)throughout the State in 2013-14, ( upto September). JSY is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor pregnant women in […]

Bhubaneswar: The BJP Kisan Morcha on Wednesday demanded that the State Government should publish a white paper, containing list of farmers who have received groundnut seeds during the last kharif. Morcha president Maheswar Sahoo said that groundnut is cultivated in almost all the districts of Odisha covering an area of 2.51 lakh hectares for which […]

Bhubaneswar: In order to prepare a long term safety measure to protect people in cyclone and flood prone areas in the State by strengthening disaster management capacity, the Odisha government on Wednesday sought external funding assistance to the tune of Rs 2225 crore from the Centrally-run programmes along with multilateral funding agencies like World Bank, […]

Rourkela: With an aim to ensure a common platform to more than hundred delegates including scientist, industrialist and young talents of the country and abroad to discuss, share and disseminate the latest development and advancement in the field of Tissue Engineering and regenerate medicine, a three day international conference on ‘Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine’ […]

Bhubaneswar: Oppositions Congress and BJP on Tuesday took to street demanding resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the Itishree Pradhan molestation and murder case. They too demanded that the case be handed over to CBI for an impartial inquiry. While the Mahila Congress took out a rally at the Mahatma Gandhi Marg led by […]