Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has reached out an agreement with tech giant IBM to roll out “IBM steam for Girls” programme for improvement of education of around 30,000 students in 125 government run schools. As part of the agreement, IBM will teach high quality science, engineering, mathematics and coding to around 20,000 girl students and [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today thanked renowned lyricist Gulzar and documentary film maker Bharatbala Ganapathy for featuring fabulously talented people’s poet from Odisha – Haldhar Nag in Virtual Bharat series of short stories. Bharatbala has produced a short film on Padma Shri award-winning poet Haldhar Nag under his new project Virtual Bharat. Featuring [...]

Berhampur: President Ram Nath Kovind today gave away the prestigious President’s Colours Award to the Corps of Army Air Defence at Gopalpur in Odisha’s Ganjam district. Kovind, the Supreme Commander of Indian Armed Forces, handed over the awards on completion of 25 years as an Independent Arms. The President’s Colours were received by Army AD [...]

Bhubaneswar: Cyclone Fani…A name to be remembered in history for its notoriety and destruction, has also shown that we can overcome one of the biggest natural catastrophes if we have the will and determination. Fighting a gigantic Cyclone and restoring the aftermath is not a mean feat. But we have done it successfully. All the [...]

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway will run three new MEMU trains between Puri and Cuttack, Cuttack and Bhadrak, and Cuttack and Paradeep in Odisha. MEMU Train between Puri and Cuttack will replace 58416 Cuttack-Paradeep passenger with train number 68416 Puri-Cuttack MEMU from September 28. In return direction, 58415 Cuttack-Puri passenger with train number 68415 Cuttack-Puri [...]

Cuttack: Sanjay Behera was today elected as the Secretary of Odisha Cricket Association (OCA). Behera, son of former OCA Secretary Ashirbad Behera, defeated his Naba Ranjan Pattnaik to become the new secretary of the cricketing body. Bikash Pradhan was elected as Treasurer, Mehtab Khan as Joint Secretary, Akshaya Kumar Samant as Vice President and Pankaj [...]

Jajpur: Odisha Revenue & Disaster Management Minister Sudam Marndi today made surprise visit to Tehsils in Jajpur district to review implementation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s 5T model of governance. As per sources, the Minister conducted surprise visit to Rasulpur and Dharmasala Tehsils of Jajpur District and reviewed the progress of different Government schemes including [...]

Bhubaneswar: In a major boost to the badminton infrastructure in the State, Dalmia Cemnet’s Bharat Ltd. has come to support Pullela Gopichand Badminton Foundation(PGBF) to set up a High Performance Centre for Badminton (HPCB) in Bhubaneswar. The Company has committed Rs 30 crore to the Foundation as part of CSR activity. The State government has [...]

Bhubaneswar: President Ram Nath Kovind arrived at Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar on a two-day visit to Odisha today. He was accompanied by his wife Savita Kovind and was accorded a ceremonial guard of honour at the airport. Kovind arrived at Biju Patnaik International Airport here by a special Indian Air Force aircraft. He [...]

Bhubaneswar: In a major development, senior IAS officer Sushil Kumar Lohani has been appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha.