Odisha

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will be on a five-day visit to Odisha starting from Tuesday where she will lay the foundation stones for three key railway projects and inaugurate several other important developments in the state. The President is expected to arrive in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday noon where she will unveil the new statue [...]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has raised serious questions over the presence of Speaker and Deputy Speaker at the BJP party office during the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit. The Speaker and Deputy Speaker, who hold a constitutional post, should not visit the party office. By doing so, it is evident that they are [...]

Berhampur: Pramod Kumar Mishra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Monday visited the famous Maa Taratarini Temple in Ganjam district. Mishra, accompanied by officials of Ganjam district administration, visited the hilltop shrine and offered his prayers to deity. Mishra also visited the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Berhampur. The Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary [...]

Bhubaneswar: Preparations are in the last stage for the upcoming Navy Day celebrations at the Blue Flag Beach of Puri on December 4. Puri district Collector Siddharth Shankar Swain on Sunday said that on December 4, an operational Demo will be organised here on the occasion of Navy Day celebrations. “The President of India and [...]

Bhubaneswar: All is not well within the Odisha BJP. It is not less than 24 hours that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his guru mantras to party leaders and workers of the state unit to move forward by maintaining proper coordination, veteran BJP leader and Sambalpur MLA Jayanarayan Mishra vented his anger over the organizational [...]

Bhubaneswar: The workers of Odisha Congress on Saturday staged a protest in Bhubaneswar against the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The Odisha Pradesh Youth Congress and the student wing of the party on Saturday took out a rally from Congress Bhawan, the state headquarters of the party, to [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has hiked the material costs for midday meals in schools to 7.64 for Primary students and Rs10.94 for Upper Primary students under the PM Poshan Scheme. The material cost has been revised from Rs 5.90 to Rs 7.64 for Primary students (Class I-V) and from Rs 7.64 to Rs 10.94 for [...]

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Bhubaneswar on a three-day visit to the state on Friday. He was accorded a grand welcome upon arrival at the Biju Patnaik International Airport. PM Modi later in a carcade went to a special felicitation programme organised by Odisha BJP near the Airport where he addressed the buoyant party [...]

Bhubaneswar: A School Management Committee Secretary in Kandhamal district was sentenced to four years jail for allegedly misappropriating the government funds. Bibhu Nandan Keshari Nayak, Asst. Teacher, I/c Head Master-cum-School Management Committee Secretary, Dukulamila New Primary School, Baliguda Block in Kandhamal district, who was charge sheeted by Odisha Vigilance U/s 13(2) r/w 13(1)(c)(d) PC Act [...]

Berhampur: Three fraudsters have been arrested by Berhampur Police for allegedly duping a businessman of Rs 19 lakh in the pretext of providing him genuine antique articles. The businessman has been identified as Pramod Kuamr Sahu (58) of Brahmanagar area of Berhampur. The accused persons are Siba Sankar Pattnaik(59) of Goulindi, Santinagar area of Berhampur; [...]