Tag: Assembly

The two major Opposition parties on Sunday charted out their game plan to corner the ruling BJD during the ensuing Budget session of the Assembly, scheduled to begin from March 15

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Council of Ministers on Friday approved the draft budget allocation worth Rs 94,143 crores for the financial year 2016-17. The budget has made provision of Rs 48, 261.90 crores for non-plan expenditure, Rs 45,600 crores for plan expenditure, Rs 140 crores for central schemes and Rs 141 crores for centraly-sponsored schemes. Despite […]

Odisha Council of Ministers is meeting under chairmanship of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at in afternoon on Friday to approve allocation for ensuing State budget as well as the revised estimate for 2015-16 fiscal at the Secretariat here, said sources

Bhubaneswar: Former Khandapara MLA Siddharth Sekhar Singh today joined BJP in the presence of Union Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan and State BJP chief Basant Panda here at party office. The scion of Khandapara royal family in Nayagarh district had resigned from BJD on January 3 40-year old Singh was a member of the legislative assembly […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker Niranjan Pujari on Wednesday adjourned the House sine die concluding the winter session ten days before the schedule. The winter session, which began on December 1, was scheduled to end on December 26. However, citing no business the House was adjourned ten days earlier. On the last day of the winter […]

Aul MLA Devendra Sharma today moved a privilege notice against Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh alleging that the minister had given false information on Namtara firing incident in the State Assembly on March 11

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: Spread of jaundice in different parts of the State is not because of contaminated drinking water, Urban Development minister Pushpendra Singhdeo told the Assembly today. Replying to queries from concerned members of both ruling and opposition parties, the minister said the government has chalked out plans to provide pure drinking water to people throughout […]

Allegation of abduction against Textiles and Handicrafts minister Snehangini Chhuria rocked Odisha Legislative Assembly again today after the Opposition created a din demanding chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s statement over the issue

The state government would convene a pre-budget consultation meeting on January 27 as preparation for a complete State Budget in the Assembly, which will be presented on February 16

BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) on Sunday declared candidates for four more Lok Sabha and 13 Assembly seats in Odisha ....

Lucknow:The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government on Wednesday presented a Rs 8,054.49-crore second supplementary budget in the state Assembly, of which Rs 3,000 crore has been earmarked for the “Swachh Bharat” project. Besides, the Yogi Adityanath government has set aside Rs 100 crore for the forthcoming Kumbh Mela, which will take place in Allahabad in […]

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat assembly on Friday amended its cow protection act making the law stringent and even punishable with life term. The state assembly passed the amendment to the Gujarat Animal Preservation Act of 1954 providing for maximum punishment of up to life imprisonments and a fine of up to Rs five lakh. With this Act, […]

Panaji/Chandigarh:  Over a crore and a half voters turned up to chose new governments in the traditionally high-turnout states of Punjab and Goa on Saturday, in the first major test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies after the government’s move to ban high-value notes last year. Eighty-three per cent of the over 11 […]

Bhubaneswar: The opposition Congress and BJP on Saturday demanded the constitution of a House committee to probe the case of Dana Majhi, who walked about 10 km with his wife’s body on his shoulders after he was allegedly denied a hearse in Odisha. The demand of the opposition comes a day after the state government […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has blacklisted 58 pharmaceutical companies for supplying sub-standard medicines since 2005, Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak told the state assembly on Friday. Replying to a written question of BJP legislator Dilip Ray, Nayak said that 133 types of medicines supplied to the government-run hospitals by 168 pharmaceutical companies were found “not […]