Tag: State News

Bhubaneswar, April 17: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha on Friday organsied a blood donation camp namely Jeevan Bindu at the State party office here to mark the 17th death anniversary of former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik. At least 54 units of blood were collected from the camp which was inaugurated by Chief Minister […]

Bhubaneswar, April 17: An airport familiarization and joint exercise was conducted at Biju Patnaik International Airport for the selected group of State Fire service personnel on Friday. This was a half-day exercise covering the familiarisation with the airport facilities, operations of the Airport Fire Service, handling of appliances, rescue and fire fighting procedures, building fire […]

Says it is important to stress on the stand of State Government Bhubaneswar, April 16: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday favoured net neutrality and wrote to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman to safe guard the basic principle of the same.  Maintaining that the IT sector today at the top of […]

Bhubaneswar, Apr 5: On the last day of the campaigning for polls the eight urban local bodies (ULBs) of the State which would go to polls on April 7, top leaders of the three political parties, the BJD, the Congress and the BJP, along with candidates and local workers organisied rallies, meetings and door-to-door campaign […]

Bhubaneswar, March 27: Starting from March 29 (Sunday) one more Air India flight with mixed class version will operate in the Delhi/Bhubaneswar/Delhi sector. The mixed class version aircraft which will run daily will depart Delhi at 11.05 am and arrive at Biju Patnaik International Airport at 1.05 pm. The same will leave for Delhi at […]

Bhubaneswar, March 26: One International non-schedule chartered flight of Air China (Boeing 737) landed at Biju Patnaik International Airport on Thursday. The flight which was directly from Beijing, China left for onward journey to Zanzibar (Africa) on the same day. The Biju Patnaik International Airport was awarded the international status in October, 2013 and since […]

Bhubaneswar, February 13: Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak on Friday informed the Odisha Assembly that 2,272 posts of various categories, including 346 post of doctors are lying vacant in three Government-run medical college and hospitals in the State.  Replying to a query of MLA Dilip Ray, the Minister informed the House that […]

Bhubaneswar, February 5: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday launched the ambitious closed circuit TV (CCTV)-based city surveillance system in the capital city, first of its kind in the State, for effective law and order management, crime control, better traffic regulation and control and surveillance over criminals. After launching the first phase surveillance system […]

Kalinga Sena vows to stop vulgarity Bhubaneswar, February 4: This February 14, the Kalinga Sena, a regional political outfit here, has said that it would protest vulgarities at parks, shopping malls and other places in the name of Valentine’s Day by video recording. “We have formed 10 teams each consisting of seven girls from four […]

Bhubaneswar, February 3: Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma on Tuesday informed that crew members and other eyewitnesses travelling in the IndiGo Airlines’ Mumbai to Bhubaneswar flight will be examined into the alleged woman misbehave case reported on January 27. The incident took place on January 27 on an Indigo flight en route to […]