Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will host the lunch for Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the Chief Ministers of West Bengal and Bihar Mamata Banerjee and Nitish Kumar respectively today. The dignitaries are in Odisha to attend the 24th Eastern Zonal Council Meeting.

Bhubaneswar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah would reach Bhubaneswar on Friday on a two-day visit to the State. According to schedule, he would arrive at the city airport at 10.10 am. Shah would chair the Eastern Zonal Council meeting at the Lokseva Bhavan from 10.40 am to 2 pm. Then, he would address a pro- [...]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today sanctioned an amount of Rs. 23 Crore for development of Pilgrim Amenities at various religious institutions of the state . The funds will be met out of the Special Problem Fund . As per the decision the following religious institutions will get an assistance of Rs. 1 Crore each [...]

Bhubaneswar: A high level delegation led by Union Minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas &. Steel Dharmendra Pradhan met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik this evening at Lok Seva Bhawan here and discussed about development of steel cluster and prospects of Japanese investment in steel and downstream industries in Odisha. During the discussion, the Chief Minister [...]

New Delhi: The Indonesian Embassy in New Delhi has showcased the contribution of former Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik to the freedom struggle of Indonesia at a photo exhibition held here on Thursday. A special gallery on the legendary Odisha leader, who was awarded the ‘Bhoomi Putra’, the highest Indonesian award, was set up at [...]

Bhubaneswar: With the relaxation of New Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act- 2019, nearing end, Commerce and Transport Minister Padmanabh Behera on Thursday said there will be no relaxation for traffic violations from March 1. Speaking to media, Behera said, “Traffic violators will face strict action from March 1 with the end of relaxation period of the [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has decided to raise the issues of coal royalty and poor mobile network in rural areas at the 24th meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council (EZC) to be held on Friday here. The State Government will raise the demand for a hike in coal royalty and apprise the meeting of the [...]

New Delhi: On the wake of violence in Delhi which killed at least 34 people in the national capital, a Congress delegation, including party chief Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday, urged President Ram Nath Kovind to call for Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation over his alleged “abdication of duty” during the communal violence in Delhi and [...]

New Delhi: Google Translate, a multilingual statistical and neural machine translation service developed by Google, is adding support for five new languages including Odia for the first time in four years, bringing its total to 108 languages. Besides Odia, four other languages added are Kinyarwanda, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur. “These languages, spoken by more than [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has been a pioneering state in providing tribals their rightful entitlements. The State is committed to the promotion and preservation of tribal culture through various developmental programs and empowerment of the tribal communities, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today. Speaking at the inaugural session of the Capacity Building Programme for Tribal PRI [...]