Bhubaneswar, Nov 20 (UNI) President Droupadi Murmu arrived here at Baripada on Monday by special Airforce Aircraft from Koleikunda Airbase on a three-day visit to Odisha. Odisha Governor Raghubar Das and Union Minister Biseswar Tudu received the President at Baripada Police Padia after she landed. An elaborate security arrangement has been made for the smooth…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 7 (UNI) Former Odisha Assembly Speaker Maheswar Mohanty passed away at a private hospital in the wee hours of Tuesday while undergoing treatment. He was 67. Sources here said he breathed his last at 0325 a.m. Mohanty was admitted to the hospital on October 31 after he fell ill and was diagnosed with…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 28 (UNI) The Amrit Kalash special train carrying the sacred soil from 13,128 villages covering 2720 panchayats spread over 314 blocks in Odisha was flagged off by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan here on Saturday. Pradhan accompanied by former Union Minister Pratap Sharanghi, BJP MP Aparajita Sharangi, BJP Odisha President Manmohan Samal led…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (UNI) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday laid the foundation for Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at NISER Campus in Jatani near Bhubaneswar. This State-of-the-Art facility and research centre will be a global standard Cancer Care, Research and Innovation centre. It will be a 200-Bedded cancer hospital and will…
Bhubaneswar,Oct 3 (UNI) Union Minister of Sports Youth Affairs and Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Tuesday denounced the remark of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik dubbing the BJP as anti-people and anti- development. Addressing newsmen here, Thakur said if we were “anti people and anti development “the people would not have voted us to…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 8 (UNI) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday flagged off 181 Mobile Veterinary Unit Vehicles to provide health services to livestock animals under Mukhyamntri Bhramyaman Pranichikitsa Seva in the state. Mobile veterinary units were previously functioning through hired vehicles. The state government has spent around Rs 30 crore in the first phase…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 3 (UNI) As many as ten people have died and three injured in six districts in Odisha due to lightning, Special Relief Commissioner Office (SRC) office sources here said. SRC office sources said while four people died in Khordha, two died in Bolangir and one died each in Anugul, Boudh, Jagatsinghpur and Dhenkanal…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 2 (UNI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed a chargesheet against three Railway Officials in the Bahanaga train tragedy case which claimed 292 lives. The charge sheet was filed in the Court of Special Judicial Magistrate, Bhubaneswar against the then SSE (Signal) Incharge, Balasore, then SSE (Signal), Soro and then…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 17 (UNI) Union Fisheries Secretary Dr Abhilaksh Likhi has advised the NFDB-NFFBB to develop a few commercially important fish varieties that have demand in Biofloc and RAS systems. Likhi said this on Thursday while reviewing a meeting at the ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) in Kausalyaganga to review the activities carried out…
Puri, Aug 17 (UNI) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday offered prayers to the presiding deities of the 12th century Sri Jagannath temple. Sitharaman, accompanied by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP national spokesman Sambit Patra, and local BJP MLAs Jayanta Sgharanghi and Lalitendu Bidydhar Mohapatra, went around the shrine and spent nearly 30…
