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Bhubaneswar: Seashore CMD Prashant Dash and his brother Pravat Dash, accused in the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam in the State, filed bail petition in a local court here today. In their petition, the brothers argued that bail should be be granted to them since the State government had failed to complete the probe related […]

Bhubaneswar: Political mudslinging has begun after the defeat of the BJD in the by-election in Ward No 21 of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) with the irrepressible party vice-president and Excise minister Damodar Rout targeting Barabati-Cuttack MLA Debasis Samantaray for the defeat of the ruling party on Saturday. “Cuttack is the birth place of the legendary […]

Cuttack: Sikha Samantaray, the sister-in-law of Barabati-Cuttack MLA Debasis Samantaray, on Saturday made a veiled attack on the ruling BJD, saying the by-election result in Ward No 21 of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) was the triumph of good over evil. Sikha, who had criticised the activities of Debasis during door-to-door campaigning and persuaded voters to […]

Bhubaneswar: Aiming to repeat the success it achieved in the recent elections in Assam in the 2019 Assembly polls in Odisha, the BJP has lined up as many as seven Union ministers, who will visit various places in the state starting June 6 in an apparent move to keep the momentum generated by Prime Minister […]

Bhubaneswar: As expected, all three nominees of the ruling BJD were today declared elected to the Rajya Sabha on Friday. The announcement was made by Assembly Secretary cum Returning Officer AK Sarangi here this afternoon. “With no withdrawals, N Bhaskar Rao, Bishnu Charan Das and Prasanna Acharya of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) are elected […]

Bhubaneswar: Seashore CMD Prashant Dash has threatened to move the court against the Odisha government for disobeying the Supreme Court’s order. Though the apex court had asked the State government to complete the investigation in the Seashore case by May end, the government is yet to complete the probe, he said. “Certainly the Odisha government […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s ace weightlifter and Arjun awardee K Ravi Kumar was on Thursday appointed deputy superintendent of police (DSP) by chief minister Naveen Patnaik. An official communication in this regard was released by the chief minister’s office (CMO) this afternoon. The 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist’s appointment comes a week after the appointment of sprinter […]

Bhubaneswar: Satyam Raul, foster son of self-proclaimed godman Sarathi Baba alias Santosh Raul, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning on Thursday. Though details of Satyam’s interrogation by the officials is not known, it is believed that the ED sought information on all financial transactions of the Barimul Ashram Trust in Kendrapara district, in […]

Boudh: Police today nabbed a gang of nine poachers inside the forest area in Boudh district and seized two tusks and weapons from their possession. The arrested poachers were later forwarded to the court. Giving details to the media, Boudh SP, B Gangadhar said a team of District Voluntary Force (DVF) personnel was on a […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Congress and ruling BJD on Thursday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for reducing financial aid to Odisha under several health and education schemes in the Union budget. Terming PM Modi’s public speech at Balasore ‘discouraging’, the ruling party said for a developing country, sectors like health and education should not be ignored. […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has initiated steps to prepare a telecom policy to provide facilitative support to the telecom industry in the state with the objectives of boosting up the telecom infrastructure and connectivity. This was revealed at a high level meeting presided over by chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at the State Secretariat here […]

Bhubaneswar/Balasore: With nearly six months left for the three-tier panchayat polls in Odisha, the State BJP is eyeing to revive its base in the eastern region and highlight the achievements of the NDA government, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public gathering at Balasore on Wednesday. Though the saffron party leaders are not very […]

Bhubaneswar: Bowing to the request of the Odisha government, the Centre today raised the monthly rice quota for Odisha with retrospective effect from May, 2016. This was informed by the Union minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan in a letter to him, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan […]

Bhubaneswar: After failing to get a single bidder for the immovable properties of chit fund firm Rose Valley Group during the e-auction on May 4, the Odisha government is conducting the process for the second time on Tuesday to repay the duped investors. Official sources said online auction of the properties would be carried out […]

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader and former Lok Sabha MP from Kandhamal, Rudra Madhav Ray passed away at a private hospital here on Tuesday morning. He was 80. Family sources said Ray breathed his last after battling a prolonged illness. The octogenarian, who had won the Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat on BJD ticket in 2009, unsuccessfully […]