Tag: Chief Minister

Bhubaneswar: After two days of long marathon discussion, the Mahanadi water row again came back to stall Odisha Assembly on Monday with the prevailing pandemonium by the Opposition parties. Soon after the House assembled, members of BJP and Congress rushed to the well and protested against the speech of chief minister Naveen Patnaik on the […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday flagged off the second phase of the pilgrimage programme for senior citizens here. A special train carrying around 1000 senior citizens of ten central Odisha left for Allahabad and Baranasi in a tour as part of the “Baristha Nagarika Tirtha Yatra Yojana” sponsored by the government. Speaking on […]

New Delhi: The much awaited tripartite meeting convened by Union Water Resources minister Uma Bharti in the national capital today to resolve the ongoing Mahanadi water row between Odisha and Chhattisgarh remained inconclusive as both the states remained adamant on their stand. “As you know, Mahanadi is the lifeline of Odisha as 65 percent of […]

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: The Odisha government has expedited the process for construction of a government medical college and hospital in Kalahandi and Keonjhar district. This was revealed during a review meeting presided over by chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here today. Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Health and Family Welfare minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak […]

Expressing grave concern over the shocking incident in which Sandip Hati, a retrenched Home Guard tried to commit suicide by setting himself on fire last night near Naveen Nivas, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced that the state government would bear all expenses towards the treatment of the Home Guard

To mark Biju birth centenary celebration and completion of 80th year of formation of Odisha state, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday dedicated 1000 Anganwadi centres to the people of the state and launched Biju Kanya Ratna Yojana in a video conferencing at a state level function held at the State Secretariat here

Noting that coal bearing states face the adverse effect of mining, reduction in forest area, risks of environmental pollution and strain on water resources, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today asked the Centre to provide financial assistance for Pump Storage Projects (PSP) from the National Clean Energy Fund

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today launched the Odisha Municipal Cadre as per which 3,213 posts will be created in eight different services

Bhubaneswar: Concerned over the alarming decline in the number of tigers in Odisha, senior Congress leader and former Union Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the state government to take urgent steps to save the population of the magnificent predators in the state. In a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday, […]

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik unveiled Odisha Start-up Policy (OSP)-2016 at the Investors’ Meet that began here yesterday. The new policy that aims to see 1,000 ventures in the state in the next five years and place Odisha among the top three investment destinations in the country by 2020 was recently approved by the state […]

Odisha government is all set to hold an investors’ meet in Bengaluru tomorrow as part of its year-long celebrations to mark 80 years of the state and the birth centenary of former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik

The Executive Committee meeting of the State Congress today witnessed a heated exchange of words when senior party leader and former Union minister Srikant Jena lambasted the Leader of Opposition (LoP) Narasingh Mishra over the party’s SC, ST MLAs prostrating in front of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the Assembly three months back

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has urged the Centre to take up the construction of the National Institute of New Energy and Innovation (NINEI) complex in Bhubaneswar at the earliest. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the state government has allocated.73.680 acres of land free of cost in […]

Bhuabneswar: Three suicide notes and a dairy have been recovered from the house where the bodies of Anang Manjari Patra, the palace manager of Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deb, the successor of Gajapati dynasty of Pralakhemundi, and two of her siblings were found dead on Sunday afternoon, Director General of Police (DGP) KB Singh revealed this […]

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the State government will bear the medical expenses of Parala Maharaja Gajapati Narayan Deb, who has been admitted to Apollo Hospital in Chennai for treatment