Rayagada: The Town Police on Tuesday arrested two persons for allegedly running a fake Maoist organisation and demanding extortion money in Rayagada. The accused identified as K Madhav Rao of Kasturinagar and V Jagannath of J K pur area demanded Rs 50 lakh from a contractor under the name of a Maoist leader Chalapati. However, […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate the move to ensure one-third reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures. In a letter, CM Naveen wrote, “I request you to take the leadership in initiating necessary steps for passing the Bill for reservation of one-third of seats in […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking an interim assistance of Rs 1,000 crore for relief and restoration works in cyclone Titli-affected districts. “I would request you to kindly consider the grave situation in the State on account of the Very Severe Cyclone Storm “Titli” and […]
Bhubaneswar: Kendrapara MP Baijayant Jay Panda resigned from his Lok Sabha membership today. Panda, who took to Twitter to announce his decision, had quit BJD on May 28. “In letter to NaveenP on my intent to dissociate from BJD, I’d said on completion of my father’s kriyas I’d resign from LS. The day after they […]
Puri: A day after ‘Mahaprasad’ was made available to devotees after four days of impasse, Niti Prasashak (temple ritual administrator) has submitted a report to Chief Administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA). The report mentions the names of some servitors from different Nijogs primarily responsible for disrupting conduct of rituals. The report has […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday urged the Centre to send a fact-finding team to take stock of the massive crop damage caused by the pests and drought in several parts of Odisha. In a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh, Pradhan has stated that crops in 1.8 lakh hectares of land […]
Bhubaneswar: Protesting ongoing work on contentious Polavaram project, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday asked Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu to stop all construction till issues are resolved. In a letter to Naidu, Patnaik claimed that the construction work being undertaken by Andhra Pradesh is in clear violation of the Godavari Water Dispute […]
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to set up a Tata Memorial Cancer Centre in the state to provide affordable care to cancer patients in Odisha. Patnaik in his letter said that although the state has a good number of public and private hospitals along with a […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government today urged the Centre for introduction of e-Visa facility at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here. In a letter to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urged for the introduction of e-Visa to facilitate the travel of arriving tourists. “In order to facilitate the travel of arriving tourists, […]
Bhubaneswar: Expressing concern over barrage construction by Jharkhand, Rourkela MLA Dilip Ray has sought intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to save Odisha’s Brahmani river. In a letter to Modi, Ray has raised the issue of arbitrary construction of barrages and dams on the two tributaries of—Shankh and South Koel will turn Brahmani river into […]
Bhubaneswar: A day after the Odisha chief secretary clarified that the government of Chhattisgarh had not informed Odisha about the Kelo project being undertaken by it in the upstream of river Mahanadi, a document on the Kelo project survey division, Chhatisgarh, a copy of which is in the possession of OTV, has proved that the […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has requested the Centre seeking its intervention for early implementation of the proposal relating to the establishment of a 500-bedded Super Specialty Hospital on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. In a letter to Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya on Wednesday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the Employees […]
New Delhi/Islamabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to his new Pakistan counterpart Imran Khan that India desires “constructive engagement” with Islamabad but Pakistan quickly clarified that there was no offer of a bilateral dialogue. Modi wrote to Imran Khan expressing India’s commitment to build good neighbourly relations and pursue meaningful and constructive engagement with […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister on Friday reiterated State’s demand for formation of a tribunal for early resolution of the ongoing Mahanadi water dispute with neighboring Chhattisgarh. In another letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Patnaik has stressed on immediate issuance of a notification for constitution of a tribunal to initiate the process of adjudication of […]
Pune: A letter allegedly found in the house of one of the five persons arrested for “links” with the banned CPI (Maoist) talks about the ultras mulling “another Rajiv Gandhi incident”, Pune police told a court yesterday. Police yesterday arrested Dalit activist Sudhir Dhawale, lawyer Surendra Gadling, activists Mahesh Raut and Shoma Sen and Rona […]
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