Odisha

New Delhi: A week after changing the outlook on the Indian Government’s ratings to negative from stable, Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday cut the country’s economic growth forecast for current year to 5.6% from 5.8% estimated earlier. In its report, the rating agency cautioned that the India’s GDP slowdown is lasting longer than previously expected. [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has collected around Rs 1 crore in fines and penalties from traffic violators between September and November under the revised Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2019 that came into effect from September 1 across the country, informed Transport Minister Padmanabha Behera to the Assembly on Thursday. A sum of Rs 46,00,850 has [...]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today called upon the alumni and the larger community of Odisha to join in Mo School Movement to create a healthy eco-system in education which can help us achieve the transformational goals of Odisha. The Chief Minister said this at a function at Lok Seva Bhawan organised for the celebration [...]

Berhampur: Giving a boost to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s ‘Mo Sarkar’ initiative, the Ganjam district administration today launched ‘Mo Hospital Mo Garba’ programme to encourage public participation in the development of government-run hospitals. Mo Hospital Mo Garba, which translates into My Hospital My Pride, aims to encourage public participation and ownership in the development of [...]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed a review petition seeking investigation into the Rafale Jet deal. Justice S.K. Kaul while reading the judgment said that the review petition is without merit. It also dismissed a plea seeking an FIR to probe the Rafale deal inked with Dassault Aviation of France. In a big relief [...]

Bhubaneswar: An Inter-Ministerial Central team will be visiting the cyclone Bulbul-affected areas in Odisha today. The seven-member team led by Saheli Ghosh Roy, Joint Secretary (CIC), Ministry of Home Affairs, is scheduled to arrive at Bhubaneswar around 1 pm on Thursday. The team will proceed to Bhadrak district and make field visit in cyclone affected [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today paid humble tributes to first Prime Minister of free India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru on his 130th birth anniversary. The birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru is being celebrated as Children’s Day for his special love for children. Taking to Twitter, the Odisha CM expressed that Nehru will always be [...]

Rourkela: Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) in collaboration with Rourkela Smart City Ltd organized an orientation workshop for civil services aspirants on Wednesday. The programme ‘Samata 2019’ held at Bhanja Bhawan here brought together top bureaucrats and educationists to guide the students, who came from different education institutions in Sundargarh district. The speakers including Sundargarh Collector [...]

Balasore: At least 100 workers fell ill after a toxic gas leaked from a prawn processing plant in Odisha’s Balasore district on Wednesday evening. The incident took place at around 8 pm when the gas, suspected to be ammonia, leaked from a factory in Panapana at Khantapada area under Soro police limits in the district, [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has been marching ahead on the path of industrial development, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today. Addressing the gathering at the Enterprise Odisha 2019 organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Chief Minister said that focusing on 5Ts i.e. Transparency, Technology, Time and Team-Work for achieving Transformational goals, his government has [...]