Tag: Chief Minister

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today released two coffee table books Nabakalebar 2015- A Visual Grandeur and Nabakalebar 2015 Managing the Event of the New Millennium on eve of the annual Rath Jatra of Lord Jagannth

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday unveiled a statue of Odisha's first woman chief minister Nandini Satpathy on the occasion of her 85th birth anniversary

Opposition Congress and BJP on Saturday demanded an impartial probe into the alleged scam in recruitment of Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), a charge denied by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik

The state government today said it was in the process of setting up a multi-purpose cultural complex under the Kalamandal project

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has managed to outsmart the Centre through his cabinet's decision of going for a public auction of all new non-coal mines in the state.

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today laid the foundation stone for the first Odia University at ‘Bakula Bana’ under Satyabadi block of Puri district to commemorate the 141st birth anniversary of Utkalmani  Pandit Gopabandhu Das while paying tributes  to the ‘Pancha Sakha’ . The varsity is being constructed at the same place where ‘Pancha Sakha’ […]

Jharsuguda: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to oppose Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s scheduled visit to Jharsuguda on January 24. At a presser held at Brajarajnagar yesterday, BJP MLA Radharani Panda informed that Patnaik is scheduled to lay foundation stone for a cancer hospital in Jharsuguda while the matter is already sub-judice in […]

Bhubaneswar: Known for his witty and satirical remarks, senior BJD leader Damodar Rout once again stirred the hornet’s nest today by claiming that Odisha Chief Minister and his party president, Naveen Patnaik is in the midst of a ‘Chakravyuha’ (labyrinth). The seasoned politician went on record to state that Naveen will have to repent for […]

Observing that strained centre-state ties have long hindered India's progress, prime minister Narendra Modi today said only 'Team India' - the central government and states - can take the country on the path of development

Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and others were granted bail in a coal block allocation case by a court here Wednesday and were directed not to leave the country without permission

Odisha's former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik has a strange relationship with this election in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Letters from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik containing details of the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana will reach the doorsteps of at least 70 lakh families covering nearly 3.5 crore people across the state within seven days from the roll out date. The State Health Department which has upped its sleeves for this mass outreach programme […]

There are many reasons why Naveen Patnaik remains head and shoulders over all other politicians in Odisha, faces little threat of anti-incumbency as he braces for his fifth successive term as Chief Minister and has no challenger in sight in the horizon. The most important of these reasons, however, is his ability to constantly reinvent […]

My sympathies have always been with teachers of the state, who have spent more time protesting on the streets than teaching in the classes in the last few years as a callous and apathetic state government has repeatedly turned a deaf ear to their legitimate demands. Even in the ongoing round of confrontation, I am […]

By Sandeep Sahu Come election time and suddenly, cine stars are in great demand. As per a well-established tradition, the most sought after among them invariably head for the party in power with the opposition having to make do with second and third rung stars and starlets from tinsel town. It was no different when […]