Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Cabinet meeting would be held today evening at the State Secretariat here.

Bhubaneswar: Sabitri Agarwalla, newly elected BJD MLA from Patkura Assembly constituency in Kendrapara district, took oath as member of the 16th Odisha Legislative Assembly on Friday. She was administered the oath by Assembly Speaker Surya Narayan Patro in the presence of other legislators. Agarwalla won the prestigious Patkura Assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Bijoy [...]

New Delhi: The Centre has received a proposal from Odisha for setting up a craft village in the State, said a Union Minister on Friday. A proposal to set up a Craft village at Sukhuapada and Lalitgiri has been received from Odisha State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporations Ltd. (UTAKALIKA), informed Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Zubin [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Drugs Control administration has raided the Kalinga Hospital today on allegations of malpractice and use of substandard drugs. A three member team of the Drugs Control department including Drug inspectors of Bhubaneswar conducted the raid. According to sources, the team reportedly seized six incriminating items during the raids. The seized items have been sent for testing.

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today launched the revamped website of Odisha Tourism odishatourism.gov.in, in presence of a large gathering of stakeholders — Ministers, senior officials, captains of industry, bloggers and media.

Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has written a letter to the Union Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel requesting him to include the Lord Jagannath Temple of Puri and the Sun Temple of Konark in the proposed list of Iconic Tourism Sites that the government intends to develop.

New Delhi: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Sasmit Patra today urged the Centre to stop the construction of Polavaram project, which threatens to displace thousands of people in Malkangiri district of Odisha. Raising the Polavaram issue in the Rajya Sabha today through a Special Mention Notice, the BJD MP said that due to the Andhra [...]

Bhubaneswar: The nation is paying homage to the martyrs of Kargil War today. It has been twenty years since these people made the supreme sacrifice for the country defending India and capture the highest outposts of Kargil from the hands of Pakistan.

Angul: A special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court here today gave death sentence to a youth convicted for rape and murder of a minor.

Cuttack: A special team of two inspectors and eleven constables has been formed to investigate and nab the killers of the three murders that took place last two days. The murders are seen as a handiwork of a psycho killer who is targeting people especially who are homeless and sleep in the open sky. In [...]