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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will embark on a five-day visit to New Delhi today. During his stay in the national capital, the CM is scheduled to attend the Chief Ministers’ Conference to be held on April 24. He is also likely to meet Union Ministers to take up projects related to Odisha during the […]

The Centre has agreed to approve road projects in the two Maoist prone districts of Malkangiri and Koraput very soon, said chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday

New Delhi: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday inaugurated the second Odia Sastriya Bhasa Divas at the Constitutional Club in the national capital. “I am delighted to attend this beautiful function. It is a day of rejoice and pride for every Odia,” he said in his address. The event was followed by a cultural show […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to visit Balangir and Kalahandi districts today to lay the foundation stone for a mega irrigation project.

Odisha would introduce a State Food Security Act soon, said chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday here

Bhubaneswar: Four days after the heart-wrenching boat capsize incident in Sambalpur district’s Hirakud reservoir that claimed 31 lives, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today reviewed Odisha Boat Rule, 2004 in a bid to strengthen the mechanism governing plying of vessels in major water bodies of the State. The CM’s meeting held at the State Secretariat here […]

Bhubaneswar: Four days after the heart-wrenching boat capsize incident in Sambalpur district’s Hirakud reservoir that claimed 31 lives, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today reviewed Odisha Boat Rule, 2004 in a bid to strengthen the mechanism governing plying of vessels in major water bodies of the State. The CM meeting held at the State Secretariat here […]

Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding a Kartarpur-type corridor to Sharda Peeth in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supremo said in her letter that the opening of the Kartarpur corridor was a welcome step as it would open avenues for people-to-people […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday wished DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi a quick recovery. The Chief Minister on Tuesday spoke to DMK leader M.K. Stalin over the telephone and enquired about the condition of his father and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, an official statement said. Karunanidhi, 94, is being treated at Kauvery […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a provision of a law that allowed government accommodation to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Ministers, terming it “arbitrary and discriminatory” as it violated the concept of equality. A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said once a Chief Minister demits office, there was nothing to distinguish […]

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday ended his indefinite fast, which he launched on Saturday here, for restoration of peace in his state rocked by agitation of farmers and violence. Former Chief Minister Kailash Joshi offered Chouhan coconut water to help him break his two-day-old fast at the Dussehra Maidan here. Chouhan […]

Bhopal: Amid spiralling protest by Madhya Pradesh farmers, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday began his indefinite fast here that will continue “until peace is restored”. The Chief Minister sat down on fast at the BHEL Dussehra Maidan here at 11 a.m. He will also run his government from the venue, an official said. […]

Kolkata: Accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of being oblivious of the principals of governance, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Friday exuded confidence that the BJP will form the next government in the state. “The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form government in Bengal. I am 200 per cent sure about it,” Das […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a chargesheet against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and others in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The CBI filed the chargesheet before Special Judge Virender Kumar Goyal. The Delhi High Court, earlier on Friday, dismissed the plea of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik did not attend the CM’s grievance cell since 2008, said a minister on Thursday. In written reply to BJP legislator Dilip Ray, General Grievance and Pension Administration Minister Jogendra Behera said in the state assembly that Patnaik had last visited the grievance cell, near the state secretariat, on August […]