Tag: State News

Bhubaneswar, Aug 23: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday asked Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to complete Odisha civil services examinations in definite time schedule every year on the lines of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Reviewing the progress of recruitment to different Government departments asked OPSC to reduce Odisha Civil Services Examination calendar from 14-15 […]

Bhubaneswar. Aug 20: Around 15,000 laptops would be distributed free of cost among the meritorious Plus II students this year. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday launched the distribution of laptops and felicitated college girls trained in self-defence. Nearly 150 laptops were distributed on Saturday at the Jaydev Bhavan here at a State-level function. Notably […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 19: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday expressed appreciation for generation of four crore person days in four and half months, expenditure and creation of durable assets under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). At State Employment Guarantee Council meeting held at the State Secretariat under the chairmanship of Patnaik it […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 19: Union Minister of State (MoS) for Railways Manoj Sinha will visit Puri on Saturday to lay foundation-stone of the scheme of improvement of the circulating area of the Puri railway station. The Minister will visit Puri at 3 pm.  Besides, Sinha is expected to review the performance of the railway and the […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 19: Strongly dismissing rumours on closure of its steel plant at Kalinganagar as frivolous and baseless, Mesco Steel on Friday clarified that it was committed to continue contributing to the industrial saga of Odisha. Taking pride in its two steel plants in Kalinganagar, Mesco in a statement said, the company had pioneered the […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 18:  As many as 31 students from the DAV Public School, Chandrsekharpur were placed within 25,000 All India Ranks (AIR) in the All India Medical Entrance Exam (NEET), results of which was published on Tuesday.  A total of 102 students of the school appeared the NEET. Out of them, 94 have been put […]

Cuttack, Aug 18: With the Puri police trying its best to nab Bhimsen Palankadhari and six other servitors of Jagannath Temple, Puri for misbehaving with the Puri Collector-cum-District Magistrate (DM) Arvind Agrawal, the Orissa High court here on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Palankadhari. Justice Shatrughna Pujahari rejected the anticipatory plea of the […]

Cuttack, Aug 18: The Orissa High Court on Thursday rejected the bail application of Indu Dewan, sister of Mumbai-based model Preeti Bhatia in connection with the chit fund scam. The CBI arrested Indu on October 17 last year in connection with her alleged complicity with the tainted chit fund company Artha Tatwa (AT) Group of […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 17: The State Government’s notification exempting Vigilance from the RTI Act purview was challenged in the Orissa High Court. Rights activist Subash Mohapatra on Wednesday challenged the constitutional validity of notification No.8081 dt.11-8-2016 issued by the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Information and Public Relations Department, so also the same being against the spirit and preamble of […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 16: The State Level Empowerment Committee (SLEC) headed by Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi on Tuesday recommended inclusion of five more clusters under Rurban Mission in the State. With the fresh recommendation the number of clusters taken up under Rurban Mission in Odisha increased to 10. Panchyati Raj Secretary Deo Ranjan Kumar Singh […]