News from Bhubaneswar

As per reports, the Bhubaneswar Urban Police District (UPD) conducted the special drive under seven police station areas including Bharatpur, Badagada Laxmisagar, Jatni, Khandagiri, Kharavel Nagar and Saheed Nagar.

After arrival, her mortal remains were taken to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party office (Sankha Bhawan). Several party leaders along with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik paid tributes to Deo.

As per reports, a number of party leaders are aspiring for RS seats, but the ruling party is making assessments of political benefits while choosing the candidate ahead of the general elections, informed sources.

A major controversy broke out over the distribution of bags with the logos of Ama Odisha Nabin Odisha and 5T to the beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) at PDS centres in Odisha. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strongly opposed the move of the state government. Surprisingly, some officials were spotted distributing the bags to the ration card holders.  

The scheme has three slabs of Rs 500, Rs 700 and Rs 900. After the hike, beneficiaries in the lowest slab of Rs 500 will receive Rs 1000 and similarly, the other slabs will also see a revision by the same amount. With this hike, the state government has to bear an additional expenditure of Rs 3683 crore per annum.  

As per the IMD, the minimum temperature (night temperature) is likely to rise gradually by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius, and no large change thereafter.

The senior Congress leader is now under attack from the BJP for the comments he made during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Odisha recently against the Prime Minister.

An eyewitness said, “That night I was by chance at that place till late night. It was actually dangerous for a car coming at that speed and hitting the parked bikes. The bikes were damaged. Had we been on the bikes, we all would have been knocked down.”

PCC President, Sarat Pattnayak said, “A new formula has been made to maintain transparency and give scope to all to apply for Congress tickets.

he video of the entire loot has been captured in the CCTV cameras installed at the mandap.

he search operations were carried out on February 8 at 19 locations in Odisha, Punjab, Chandigarh and Delhi under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 related to M/s. Golden Land Developers Limited and others.

The Odia actor was in the news after the Utkal Cine Chambers of Commerce, producer Sanjay Nayak last year announced to ban him for a period of two years.

As per the decision, the EPFO has fixed an 8.25 percent interest rate on employees' provident fund for the 2023-24 financial year. This is a three-year high from the retirement fund body.

As per a statement by the AIIMS, the remarkable feat took just over one hour and was performed by the Department of Paediatrics using a less invasive flexible bronchoscopy, sparing the kid from a major surgery (thoracotomy).

While coming out of the House on the last day of the Budget Session and most probably the last day of the current Legislative Assembly before the State goes into polls in the next two to three months, Routray paid his respects to the House by prostrating on the steps.