Miscellaneous News Updates

New York City has around 3,70,000 municipal workers with the vast majority of them having been vaccinated.

As per the Odisha State Election Commission, polling at one seat for Zilla Parishad Member, six seats for the post of Sarpanch, three seats for Panchayat Samiti Member and 13 Ward Member posts have been cancelled

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The constituencies of Minister of State for Home Dibya Shankar Mishra and Law Minister Pratap Jena will go for polling on Wednesday.

He was travelling in a private vehicle along with his friend from the US, when the accident occurred.

The team stopped off at a few villages to get a feel of the mood of the villagers about the ensuing elections. 

Mohapatra in his letter on Monday said Odisha government has requested the ministry of civil aviation to include the Mayurbhanj air strip under the RCS-UDAN scheme looking at the huge tourism potential of the area.

With first phase voting beginning from Wednesday (Feb 16), preparations are in full swing for Odisha Panchayat Polls 2022

Beneficiaries under the Odisha Housing Board’s (OSHB) EWS (Economically Weaker Section) housing scheme gheraoed the Board office in Bhubaneswar after they were allegedly refused allotment of the houses.

Odisha PCCF, Sashi Paul said on Tuesday that the STF, which exhumed the skeletal remains of a dead elephant in Balikiari reserve forest on last Tuesday, submitted the report to the DFO, prompting action against the Forest officials who are under a cloud.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has included Bhubaneswar-Amarda Road (Mayurbhanj) as a special RCS route under UDAN 4.1 on request of the State government.

State Election Commissioner Aditya Prasad Padhi on Tuesday said that as many as 67.51 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in the first phase polls.

Saroj Seth breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH).

Puri district collector Samarth Verma said that the Chief Secretary took a meeting yesterday to review the preparations and gave details of the programmes of the President.