Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has set the target to build 2000 check dams in 2019-20 financial year, informed Water Resources (WR) Minister Raghunandan Das to the Assembly on Thursday. The Minister said that a total of Rs 333.84 crore has been allotted for this, out of which Rs 302.23 crore has already been spent by [...]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to prevent outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID 19) in the State, the Odisha Government has enforced the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 empowering senior officials including Collectors and Municipal Commissioners to take necessary measures to deal with the situation. The State Health & Family Welfare Department has empowered Director Medical Education and Training [...]

Bhubaneswar: Amid uproar deposit of Shree Jagannath Temple’s funds in the cash strapped Yes Bank, Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari on Thursday said funds were kept in Yes Bank as it offered the highest rate of interest of 8.61 percent. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) had invited quotations from scheduled commercial banks for depositing [...]

Bhubaneswar: Keonjhar district has emerged as the leading district in Odisha in the agriculture, industrial and tertiary sectors. The district has also the highest per capita income in the State based on 2004-05 financial year, informed Planning & Convergence Minister Padmanabha Behera to the Assembly on Thursday. Sundargarh and Angul districts are the other leading [...]

New Delhi: Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal MPs again met the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and requested to release to Odisha the pending basic and performance grants in respect of 114 ULBs arising out of 14th Finance Commission recommendations amounting to around Rs. 700 crore immediately as the matter is pending for the last 4 [...]

Bhubaneswar: In Odisha the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has chalked out a novel and constructive programme to celebrate international women’s day and 104th birth anniversary of Biju Patnaik who pioneered reservation of 33 per cent seats for women in Panchayats in our country. It has been decided by the top leadership of the BJD [...]

Bhubaneswar: The second phase of the Odisha Assembly Budget Session began here today. On the first day, the House paid tributes to three former members, who passed away recently. Chief Minister and Leader of the House Naveen Patnaik made obituary reference condoling the recent death of former legislators Prahlad Behera, Bira Sipka and Bijay Kumar [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Legislative Assembly today came up with the safety guidelines for the prevention of COVID-19 infection (Coronavirus). In order to maintain cleanliness and hygiene of the working space, furniture and equipment including tables, chairs, computers, phones and other assets are to be cleaned at least six times with disinfectants and sanitisers, the guidelines said. [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Regional Meteorological Centre here has forecasted rainfall in several districts of Odisha till March 14. As per the weather department, light to moderate rain thundershower is likely to occur at many places over the districts of north Odisha and at a few places over the districts of Bolangir, Kandhamal, Sonepur, Boudh, Khurda on [...]

New Delhi: Biju Janata Dal MPs Prasanna Acharya, Achyuta Samanta, Amar Patnaik and Sasmit Patra today met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament and sought her intervention in releasing the funds blocked in Yes Bank by the Reserve Bank. The MPs met the Finance Minister and appraised her that the funds are associated [...]