Odisha

Bhubaneswar: In a significant development, the Odisha government today effected a bureaucratic reshuffle. According to notification, as many as 5 IAS officers and one IPS officer have been assigned new tasks. While Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, IAS, ACS, Odisha, has been given additional charge of Revenue and DM, Department, Nikunja Bihari Dhal, IAS, Principal Secretary to [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha received Krishi Karman Awards from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Tumkur Karnataka today. Agriculture Minister Arun Sahoo has received the award for Odisha. The event has also witness the release of the 3rd installment of PM Kisan (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi) of Rs 2000 for the period December [...]

Bhubaneswar: Following the footsteps of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, many personalities who are in public life and serving the common people in Odisha, celebrated the New Year in different ways. While some celebrated the dawn of the New Year with people who deserve the maximum, some tried to dedicate the New Year to environment. Be [...]

Puri: Lakhs of people thronged pilgrimage city of Puri today on the first day of new year to have darshan of holy trinity at the Shree Jagannath Temple. Doors of the temple were opened at 1 am expecting large number of devotees visiting the shrine on the occasion of new year while darshan began at [...]

Bhubaneswar: On May 23 2019, when the opposition collapsed at Centre and other states in the wake of the unprecedented Modi wave, gentleman politician Naveen Patnaik successfully held fort. Patnaik’s emphatic win is the sweetest and the most significant as he was fighting for his fifth consecutive term and has been at the helm of [...]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to bring transparency in the administration, the Rural Development Department would be included under the fold of Mo Sarkar from February 2020, said Department Secretary Pradeep Jena today. Speaking to media, he said as many as 4300 villages does not have road connectivity in the State and after the inclusion, many [...]

Bhubaneswar: The former National Speaker of the Parliament of Bhutan and the former President of the Mahabodhi Society of India, Dasho Passang Dorji, along with two monks visited the Buddhist sites of Ratnagiri, Lalitagiri and Udayagiri yesterday. He was accompanied by the Venerable Ugyen Tenzin, Chief Secretary of the Chief Abbot of Bhutan and Venerable [...]

Bhubaneswar: ​Summoning enormous moral and spiritual courage Odish Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik set a shining example of statesmanship in instructing the removal of his father Biju Patnaik’s Samadhi (memorial) from within the cremation ground hailed as “Swarga Dwar”, the gateway to heavenly abode. Located in the sacred city of Puri which has the shrine [...]

Chatrapur: In line with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s 5T policy, the Ganjam district administration has given premature retirement to five officials on grounds of inefficiency. At a high level meeting chaired by Ganjam Collector Vijay Amrit Kulange, the administration reviewed the performance of the government employees. Based on the assessment, five officials were handed out [...]

Bhubaneswar: Jagannath….The Lord of the Universe is the Enigma. He is the deity and he is the manifestation…He is the ruler and all are his followers. In Odisha, everything starts with him and everybody is a Jagannath Bhakt. And so is the Chief Minister of Odisha. He is the biggest believer of Lord Jagannath and [...]