Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday lashed out at Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over his claim that Odisha received over Rs 2.86 lakh crore as Central assistance for ensuring rapid growth in the State. In a presser, BJD leaders alleged that Pradhan’s claim regarding construction of 5499 km national highways (NH) in […]
Bhubaneswar: A day after Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stated Chhattisgarh is at fault in the Mahanadi water dispute, the ruling-BJD in Odisha today claimed that the saffron party has no clarity on the whole issue. The regional party alleged that leaders of the saffron party including the Union Minister and even the Prime Minister are […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, in a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, has sought cooperation in linking farmers, producers of marine products, and SMEs involved in food processing sector with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC ) market. Various product in Odisha such as non basmati aromatic rice from western Odisha, marine products from […]
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Amid rising resentment over unabated rise in fuel prices, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today expressed hope that prices will come down soon. Speaking to a private news channel, Pradhan said that the government has no control over fuel prices but it is concerned about it. “We admit that the continuous increase in […]
Bhubaneswar: The capital city now becomes the fourth National data centre of National Informatics Centre (NIC) after Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune as Union Minister of Electronics & IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad unveiled a new data centre here today. Prasad said that this data centre in Bhubaneswar is of global standards. Emphasizing the significance of the […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today paid his tributes to late industrialist and founder and chairman Emeritus of Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA), Bansidhar Panda at his residence and expressed his condolences. Pradhan was accompanied by Odisha BJP legislature party leader, Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo and State secretary Lekhasri […]
Bhubaneswar: As petrol and diesel prices continue their upward move, Odisha and Centre are at loggerheads over tax cuts to ease the burden of higher prices. Petrol and diesel prices today touched their record highs after increasing for the eighth consecutive day. Union Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan said the Centre had slashed excise duty on […]
Bolangir: Taking a step towards fulfilling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Purvodaya’ (A prosperous East for a New India), Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday laid the foundation stone of LPG bottling plant in Bolangir. The proposed project which is being established in over 23 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs […]
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has approved establishment of two new medical colleges in Odisha, informed Union Health Minister JP Nadda. Nadda in a letter to Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday stated that his Ministry has approved two schemes of the Odisha Government for establishment of the two new […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan in a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister, Suresh Prabhu has requested to expedite and hasten the process of construction and development of a new airport in Bhubaneswar. Pradhan in his letter stated, “As the construction and development of the airport takes considerable time, this process needs to be […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Agriculture Minister, Pradeeep Maharathy on Tuesday taunted Union Petroleum and Skill Development Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan by referring him as ‘Mahanadi River’- which could dry up. Maharathy’s remarks came at a time when Odisha is at loggerheads with the Chhattisgarh & central governments over illegal construction of barrages on Mahanadi River by the neighbouring […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday wrote a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Radhamohan Singh seeking central assistance for the farmers affected by the untimely Nor’wester (Kalabaisakhi) in Odisha. Pradhan mentioned that the untimely spell of rains and hailstorm which hit many parts of the state over the past few […]
Khurda: The Union Government has planned to establish two skill development centres in Khurda district at the cost of Rs 1,000 crore, informed Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. While one skill development institute will be set up near the foothills of Barunei at the cost of Rs 500 crore, a branch of the Indian Institute of […]
Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said the agri and food processing clusters in Odisha would be linked to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. “While India imports about 40 million metric tonne petroleum products to meet the energy demand, it has planned to export agriculture products to the GCC countries to meet their […]
Bhubaneswar: Skill development, livelihood and entrepreneurship programmes for the youth in Odisha will be organised by the Union Government on May 5 as part of the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, said an official of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) on Thursday. Head-Partnership Development and State Alliance at NSDC, Jaikant Singh informed the Ministry of Skill […]
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