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Bhubaneswar: Four days after a hike in the diesel price, the Odisha government today increased fares for all categories of passenger buses as per the automatic fare adjustment mechanism. As per a notification issued by the Commerce and Transport department, the fares for Ordinary and Express buses have been hiked by 1 paisa per kilometre, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government increased the dearness allowance (DA) by 7% for its staff with retrospective effect from July 1, 2016. The State government’s decision was announced by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today evening in Bhubaneswar. The Odsiha government pensioners will get Dearness Relief (TI) at 7%, the Chief Minister added. Approximately four lakh State […]

Bhubaneswar: Two days after a hike in the price of diesel, the Odisha government on Monday increased fares for all categories of passenger buses as per the automatic fare adjustment mechanism. As per a notification issued by the Commerce and Transport department, the fares for Ordinary and Express buses have been hiked by 1 paisa […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today announced a hike in the salary of all block grant college teachers and staffs. Higher Education minister Pradip Panigrahi said the government has decided to increase the salaries of the block grant teachers and staff by 25 percent with effect from May 31, 2016. He said these teachers and staffs […]

Bhubaneswar: In a major relief for lakhs of electricity consumers across the State, Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) on Tuesday announced that there would be no hike in power tariff for the financial year 2016-17. The power tariffs of the previous year (2015-16) will continue across all the categories, including domestic, agriculture and commercial, an […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid speculation about a power tariff hike in the State, the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) will announce the tariff for the year 2016-17 by March 20. This was informed by officials who attended the meeting of the State Advisory Committee of OERC on Thursday. “The Commission will decide (about tariff hike) after taking […]

Panaji: The Goa government has hiked VAT on petrol by two per cent taking the price of the fuel to Rs 63.43 per litre, a spokesperson said on Saturday. The Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol has been hiked from the existing 15 per cent to 17 per cent. “Even after such increase, petrol would still […]

New Delhi: Heating up the competition in the personal emoji space, cross-platform instant messaging app Hike on Wednesday introduced HikeMoji for all users, which is being touted as the country’s first hyper-local and personalised avatar. According to the company, the machine learning (ML) on the platform has also scaled from combing 100 trillion combinations in […]