Tag: State News

Bhubaneswar, Aug 4: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Dr Raghuram G Rajan on Thursday launched a web portal sachet.rbi.org.in in order to check unlawful money collection activities by unscrupulous money collection companies. The website will help people obtain information about entities allowed to collect deposits. Rajan launched the website at the RBI headquarters in […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 3: In a move that could unnerve the Naveen Patnaik Government, members 16 Opposition parties buried their differences to put up a united front against Chief Minister Patnaik’s ‘illogical’ dealings involving Mahanadi water dispute issue and gathered at an all-party meeting convened by Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Narasingha […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 3: Andhra Bank, Bhubaneswar zone would conduct two separate camps for One Time Settlement (OTS) of loans at its zonal office here at Baramunda on Thursday and Friday. While the first camp is scheduled to be held on Thursday, the second camp will be held on Friday, stated a bank statement. On Thursday, […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 2: A total of 137 dairy farms were established by inducting 3,419 cross bred cows in the dairy sector in Odisha with a project cost of Rs 1,816.16 lakh between 2008-09 and 2015-16 through APICOL. The farms were established as per the State Agriculture Policy by the Fisheries and Animal Resources Development Department, […]

Cuttack, Aug 2: Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday conducted simultaneous search on houses and office of Sambalpur district’s Bareipali police outpost Constable Jayanti Sahoo and detected assets worth Rs 1,43,63,966 in her and her family members’ names. Separate teams of the anti-corruption wing searched the residential house of the woman Constable at Sambalpur Town, parental house […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 1: Even as wonder boy Budhia Singh left for Delhi for promotion of a movie ‘Budhia Singh, Born to Run,’ a Hindi movie directed by Soumendra Padhi, the Khordha Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Monday engaged psychologist Prof UN Dash to counsel him to return to the hostel. The development came after CWC […]

Paradip, Aug 1: The cargo handling growth story of the Paradip Port among Indian Major Ports continues with a quantum jump in the cargo handled by the port in July when the port handled a record throughput of 8.06 MMT in a single month surpassing the earlier highest record of 7.61 MMT in March this […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 1: Laxminarayan Pradhan, a jawan of the Special Operation Group (SOG), died of during a practice run on the SOG camp ground at Chandaka under Nandankanan police station on Monday morning. Inspector General of Police (Operation) Soumendra Pridarshi said Pradhan fainted during the regular practice run. After preliminary treatment he was rushed to […]

Bhubaneswar, Aug 1:  Experts on oncology have said that advanced technology and improved treatment methods have opened the door to effectively deal with the scourge of cancer and the condition does not mean certain death anymore. “Patients with lung cancer who lived barely for a year after detection in the 1990s’ can now be provided […]

Bhubaneswar, July 31: Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested the accused who allegedly beat a youth to death and leaving another seriously injured in IRC Village under Nayapalli police station here late on Saturday evening.  A team of police officials nabbed Simanchal Jena from Ganapati Nagar on Sunday evening. Thanks to the use of CCTV camera […]