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Bhubaneswar: Bringing delight among music lovers in denizens, eminent Hindustani Classical Singer Padma Vibhusan Pandit Jasraj will perform at the Indira Gandhi Park in Bhubaneswar at 6 pm on December 17 as a part of the ‘Music In The Park’ programme organised jointly by the SPIC MACAY and the Bhubaneswar Development Authority. Along with Pandit […]

Bhubaneswar: After the SUM hospital tragedy, the Khurda district administration has set up an audit team to inspect all the private and government hospitals in the district. According to sources, the team will review the fire safety arrangements in all these hospitals and check whether the guidelines of the clinical establishment act are being followed […]

Bhubaneswar: Demand for an action against the officials responsible for renewal licence of the SUM Hospital without a fire safety certificate, an approval from the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and the Occupancy certificate has got louder today. Fingers are pointed towards the authorities of the Health Department and the Directorate of Medical Education and Training […]

Bhubaneswar: While on one hand the death toll due to the SUM Hospital fire continues to rise, on the other the murky affairs of the hospital and its authorities are coming to fore. In yet another such instance, it is learnt that the land on which the hospital has been built was originally approved for […]

Bhubaneswar: More and more instances of violation are surfacing against SUM Hospital where 24 persons died after a deadly fire broke out on 17th October. As per the Bhubaneswar Development Authority, the multi-storey building in which SUM hospital is operating has been built without the permission of the civic body. Also Read: SUM hospital fire […]

Bhubaneswar: The tension prevailing for the last three days in Daruthenga village on the outskirts of the capital city over the dumping of garbage at the Bhuasuni dumping yard eased today after the villagers removed the blockade on the Baranga-Chandaka road following a meeting with the police. But the villagers have given two days to […]

Bhubaneswar: The General Administration (GA) department has sought a progress report on implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on the allocation of flats/plots/houses under the discretionary quota (DQ) from the investigating agencies and concerned departments of the State government. A letter in this regard has been issued by the GA department to the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has served a show-cause notice to Tourism and Culture minister Ashok Panda for availing multiple plots/houses under the discretionary quota (DQ) allotment of the government. Housing and Urban Development minister Pushpendra Singhdeo revealed this information while replying to a written question posed by Prafulla Majhi in the Assembly recently. […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) today started demolishing a Hanuman mutt near Jayadev Vaitka in Khandagiri area here, which was allegedly built illegally on a government land, amid stiff resistance from locals. Tension ran high in the locality as BDA officials reached the spot along with police force to raze the mutt but faced […]

Bhubaneswar: The state government has decided to auction the lands belonging to Lord Jagannath lying under the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) limits for which Sri Jagannath Temple Administration on Wednesday inked an MoU with the BDA in presence of CM Naveen Patnaik. In the first phase, 220 acres of land will be sold. “We have […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has set up a committee to facilitate a team from the Ministry of Earth Sciences conducting a seismic micro-zonation mapping for the entire Bhubaneswar Development Plan Area (BDPA), an official said. The team of experts from the ministry has started the initial survey for the purpose. Bhubaneswar is a leading city […]

Bhubaneswar: To boot socio-cultural art of the State, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) in association with Artists Network Promoting Indian Culture (ANPIC) has been constructing an open air sculpture museum in five acres of land at Kalinga Nagar here. As many as 21 artists from 14 countries have congregated to create sculptures from waste materials […]

By Sandeep Sahu Some time at the beginning of the 1990s, an acquaintance offered this author a piece of land near Bahai Bhavan, close to the already bustling CRPF Square, for Rs 10, 000. Even after making allowance for the fact that the ‘offer’ was made over two and a half decades ago, this was […]

The alumni and parents’ associations of Unit 6 Government Boys High School in the heart of the city recently wrote to local MLA, MP and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking immediate suspension of boundary wall construction by the BDA on about 1.5 acres of land of the school citing it is lying unutilised. 

Bhubaneswar: A month-and-a-half after the cyclone Fani battered Odisha, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Wednesday started validating a list of the city’s street vendors affected by the calamity in order to provide each of them an assistance of Rs 10,000, officials said. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced last month that about 30,000 street vendors […]