Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today launched Mission Suvidya at Lok Seva Bhawan which will ensure quality norms in basic facilities such as safe building, functional toilets, safe drinking water, proper kitchen and dining in ST-SC Development Department hostels. The Department today signed three agreements, one with Quality Council of India, second with Akshara Foundation [...]

Berhampur: The Ganjam district administration held its people-friendly service delivery programme ‘Mo Gaon Re Tahasil’ here on Wednesday. The programme, which aims at resolving land and revenue related issues at the grassroots level without any mediator, received an overwhelming response in Berhampur subdivision. The admin distributed as many as 3700 house and land patta under [...]

Bhubaneswar: Continuing his surprise visits to review and oversee the transformation and development of various projects, 5T Secretary VK Pandian today made a early morning visit to the Lingaraj Temple and took stock of the infrastructure developments going on. Pandian, along with works secretary Kishan Kumar and Bhubaneswar DCP Anup Sahu reached the temple complex [...]

Bhubaneswar: The first ever Mission Shakti Mela will be organized in the state capital from 5th to 16th December this year. The exhibition will show case the prowess of the Women Self Help Groups of the state and bring to one platform more than 500 SHGs. This is for the first time an exhibition is [...]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Recycling of Ships Bill 2019 that restricts hazardous material on ships and regulates their recycling in India. Participating on the discussion regarding the Bill, Jajpur Lok Sabha Member Sarmistha Sethi has solicited a bigger role for Odisha in the ship recycling arena as it has a [...]

Bhubaneswar: Adding another feather to its cap, Odisha won the India Geospatial Excellence Award for its mega livable habitat mission ‘Jaga’ that ensures land rights to landless urban slum dwellers. The Odisha Government won the prestigious award along with Tata Trusts at the GeoSmart India 2019 for technological innovation in empowering millions of urban poor [...]

New Delhi: Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today demanded the Centre for the inclusion of three major tribal languages in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution. In a Special Mention in Rajya Sabha, BJD MP Dr. Sasmit Patra urged the Central Government to take necessary steps for inclusion of Ho, Mundari and Bhumij languages [...]

Puri: In a bid to expedite the land acquisition process in Puri for taking up infrastructure projects approved under the ABADHA scheme, the state government has extended the date for land acquisition till December 9. As per reports, at least 75 per cent of the total landholders have participated in the acquisition process till December [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday felicitated Odia Jawan Sangram Keshari Jena who recently set a world record by displaying dare-devil stunts on moving motorcycle. The Odia Jawan set the record by covering a distance of 128 km while standing backwards on a ladder atop a moving motorcycle at a show organised at [...]

New Delhi: Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai today highly appreciated the Odisha government for its efforts in evacuating more than 15, 57,000 people to safer places before Cyclone Fani. The Union Minister thanked the Odisha government, United Nations Organization (UNO), many other countries and experts in the field for their [...]