Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Taking a tough stand on corruption in public offices, the Government of Odisha today took exemplary action against eleven officers of the Revenue and Disaster Management Department. While two OAS officers have been dismissed from their services, pension has been withhold of nine other officials against whom there were various vigilance cases. The two [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government today signed a Letter of Understanding (LoU) with UNICEF to provide 24-hour piped drinking water supply to the people under the – ‘Drink From Tap Mission’ project. The agreement was inked between Housing and Urban Development Department and UNICEF in the presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Lok Seva [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government is mulling to track attendance of students and teachers at the state-run schools from Lok Seva Bhawan. The School and Mass Education Department will introduce online attendance system at school for remote monitoring from Lok Seva Bhawan, sources said. The new attendance system will be introduced in one school of every [...]

Bhubaneswar: The online form fill-up for Plus II examination 2020 will start from November 1 this year, said the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Odisha. The regular students in Arts, Commerce, Science and Vocational streams appearing in the Plus II examinations 2020 can fill the online forms from November 1, 2019. The online form [...]

Bhubaneswar: Newly-elected Bijepur MLA-elect Rita Sahu met Biju Janata Dal president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at latter’s residence here on Friday. The BJD supremo congratulated Rita Sahu, who won the Bijepur by-poll with a huge margin of 97,990 votes at the end of 21 rounds counting. Rita Sahu expressed her gratitude to the BJD [...]

Bhubaneswar: Keeping his words, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Supremo Naveen Patnaik today launched Odisha-Mo Parivar, party’s social service programme. The Odisha-Mo Parivar emphasizes party’s social responsibility and will focus on three major areas — environment, healthcare services and assistance to poor and deprived people. Announcing the initiative, emotional Patnaik said that the Odisha Mo-Parivar programme [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik gave placement order to the newly recruited 299 Lecturers of Higher Education Department at a function at Jayadev Bhawan here on Friday. Addressing the lecturers, the Chief Minister said, At the outset, I congratulate all the newly recruited Lecturers and wish them all the best in their career. The [...]

New Delhi: The Union government, the Odisha government and the World Bank have signed a US$165 million loan agreement to support smallholder farmers strengthen the resilience of their production systems as well as diversify and improve the marketing of their produce, for increased income. The Odisha Integrated Irrigation Project for Climate Resilient Agriculture will be [...]

Bhubaneswar: Subarnapur district was on Thursday felicitated for its exemplary work towards ending child marriage during the year 2018. The district administration has been felicitated by the Department of Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti for building awareness, mass mobilization, convergence and coordination among different stakeholders for prevention of child marriage. The felicitation was [...]

Bhubaneswar: In yet another measures to boost the Odisha economy the seafood export from Odisha has reached Rs 3000 crore in the 2018-19 financial year. This was revealed in a meeting between Sea Food Exporters’ Association of India (Odisha Region) and chief secretary Asit Tripathy here. The President of the association Dr Kamalesh Mishra said, [...]