Tag: State News

Rs 5,000 aid per annum to fishermen during fishing ban Bhubaneswar, Oct 14: Odisha has aimed to increase its sea food exports to Rs 20,000 crore from the State per annum in the next five years, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while speaking at a workshop on ‘Seafood Export: Prospects and Challenges’ here on Friday. […]

Dhenkanal, Oct 13: With only four BJP councillors out of the total of 23, the saffron party on Thursday claimed the Dhenkanal Municipality Chairman post after party candidate Sudhanshu Dalei was elected through lottery after the voting ended in a tie. On August 1, Indramani Behera of BJD who was the Chairman of the civic […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 13: A State Congress delegation led by Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Narasingha Mishra on Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee and sought his intervention in the Mahanadi water dispute issue and pleaded to safeguard the interest of the people of Odisha. The opposition party MLAs called on the President at a time […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 13: National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco), the Navratna PSU under the Union Mines Ministry has put up an impressive performance in the first half of 2016-17 fiscal. According to a Nalco press release, in production front, while the bauxite mining was up 23.6% at 35.08 lakh tonnes, as compared to the corresponding six […]

Bhubaneswar, October 8: The East coast Railway (ECoR) have started a drive to check without ticket/irregular ticket travel by trains in its jurisdiction. Massive ticket checking drives involving Commercial Ticket Checking Staff as well as Railway Protection Force (RPF) are being conducted on all sections of three Railway Divisions on a regular basis. In September […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 8: International athlete Srabani Nanda has bagged the prestigious 24th Ekalabya Award for the year 2016. The Ekalabya Award Committee comprising jury members drawn from different walks of life were unanimous in selecting Nanda for the award at a meeting held here on Saturday. Srabani Nanda will get a cash award of Rs […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 7: The current financial year’s total State Plan budget utilisation by September-end has crossed Rs 19,000 crore, thereby marking a growth of 26 per cent more than that of the corresponding period of FY 2015-16. This was revealed at an all-Secretaries’ meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 7: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Odisha Government to make adequate arrangement for cleaning the class room of the schools and asked not to deploy students for cleaning the class room. The rights panel also issued show-cause notice to the Chief Secretary seeking reply within six weeks, as to […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 6: Concerned over the rising death toll due to the deadly Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Malkangiri district, senior BJP leader and Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday met Union Health Minister JP Nadda in New Delhi and sought his immediate intervention to tackle the situation. “The disease has assumed […]

Bhubaneswar, Oct 6: Over 600 software IT professions across the country would attend the TechBhubaneswar, the first ever software conference in eastern India on October 16. The main objective is to create a platform for tech community to share knowledge and develop connections at Bhubaneswar TechBhubaneswar, inspired by Mindfire will provide platform for knowledge sharing […]