Tag: Cm Naveen Patnaik

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to Biju Patnaik on his birth anniversary and acknowledged his diligence with which he served the society. “On his birth anniversary, I pay my tributes to the beloved Biju Babu. He served society with diligence and positively impacted many lives,” Modi tweeted. Patnaik, also known […]

Bhubaneswar: A pall of gloom hung over the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital in the Odisha capital on Tuesday, a day after a major blaze in the hospital’s dialysis ICU wing led to 20 deaths. Family members and relatives of victims broke down at the nearby Capital Hospital, where the dead were brought […]

Bhubaneswar: An Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA) was launched here on Friday aiming to train eight lakh youth in the next three years. “In the last two years, 3.3 lakh youth in the state have been trained equipping them with employability and self-employment skills. We need to train 8 lakh more in three years from […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday announced the formation of a six-member committee to judge the best practices adopted by collectors in their districts. The committee will judge the practices adopted by the collectors in their districts and select the top three best practices. Their district collectors will be rewarded at the valedictory […]

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the 2014 general elections two Odisha Congress heavyweights Anup Sai and Bhupinder Singh, the then Legislature Party secretary and Leader of Opposition respectively, had joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Well, the ghost of exodus is back and it already seems to be haunting the party, threatening to derail its plans. Speculations […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today lashed out at the Odisha government for its new guidelines on work orders for government projects and accused it of looting public money. The Petroleum minister said that the BJP will hold a 10-day long demonstration protesting the new guideline of the State government and will not let embezzlement […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid the ongoing lawyers’ strike over alleged thrashing of an advocate by the Odisha police, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today sought Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s intervention to end the stalemate in the interest of the people of the State. In a Facebook post (video), Pradhan expressed concerns over the problems people are facing […]

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: After spewing venom against the ruling-BJD, former minister and senior leader Damodar Rout on Sunday trained his guns at the party president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik by calling him a ‘corrupt leader’. While addressing a public meeting organised by Mayurbhanj Milita Kriyanusthan Committee in Baripada, Dama Rout said that CM Naveen does […]

The year 2017 saw many highs and lows as far as Academics is concerned. Discrepancies in CBSE Class 10th and 12th Board exam results and fake recruitment of teachers under Ujjwal scheme dominated the headlines. As the year draws to a close, we look back at some of the noteworthy events and decisions.  CBSE exam […]

Bhubaneswar: Odia communities across the country and abroad on Friday celebrated Utkal Divas to mark the formation of Odisha state on linguistic basis in 1936. The foundation day of Odisha is celebrated across the state on April 1 every year after it was carved out of the combined Bengal-Bihar-Orissa province in 1936. Prime Minister Narendra […]

Bhubaneswar: BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik claimed Tuesday that the ruling party would perform “extremely well” in the upcoming Lok Sabha and assembly elections. “I am sure that the Biju Janata Dal will do extremely well in the forthcoming elections,” Patnaik told reporters at the state secretariat here. His statement came two […]

Parlakhemundi: The daughter of former MP Gopinath Gajapati and scion of the Gajapati Dynasty of Parlakhemundi, Kalyani Devi has urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to inquire into the property transactions relating to the royal family of the past 35 years. Kalyani recently wrote a letter to Patnaik mentioning that if anyone found guilty shoud be […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today assured Nivedita Mallick, widow of a martyr, to facilitate her in paying tribute to her husband Sachhidananda Mallick at the Kargil War Memorial in Jammu and Kashmir. Patnaik gave the assurance to Nivedita, who met him at the state secretariat here. Earlier, Patnaik had invited Nivedita to the […]

Bhubaneswar: Claiming that his government was doing “exceedingly well” in achieving its promises despite fund cuts by the Centre, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said he believes in work and not publicity. “My government is accountable to the people of Odisha. We believe in work and not in publicity,” Patnaik said at a hurriedly-convened […]

Bhubaneswar: In its bid to further increase foodgrain production in the state, the State government today asked the Centre to enhance fertiliser allocation to protect interest of the farmers. “I will request you to kindly look into the matter and consider to enhance the allocation of fertilisers to the state for safeguarding the interest of […]