Tag: Monsoon Session

Bhubaneswar: The State Assembly has been adjourned till Friday after the House moved and adopted condolence motion on deaths of sitting Congress legislator Subal Sahu and former MLA Sura Sethi and a martyred police constable. As soon as the House assembled on first day of the monsoon session today, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik moved the […]

Bhubaneswar: A day before the Monsoon Session of the Odisha Assembly Police DG Dr RP Sharma on Wednesday reviewed the three-tier security arrangements made by the Commissionerate Police on the Assembly premises. Sharma was accompanied by Director Intelligence Sunil Roy, Police Commissioner YB Khurania and various other senior police officials. Apart from the Assembly, Sharma […]

Bhubaneswar: To corner the ruling party in the Assembly, Congress and BJP are chalking out plans ahead of the monsoon session that begins tomorrow. BJP will raise the issue of the State government flouting Supreme Court’s imposition of penalty on miners involved in illegal mining scam in the House, said the saffron party’s State chief […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly’s eight-day monsoon session is scheduled to start from September 7 when the government is expected to table several bills. The Parliamentary Affairs department released a notification following which the Assembly Secretary issued summons for the monsoon session. During the eight-day session, six days are for official members and two are private […]

Bhubaneswar: Though the announcement made by Housing and Urban Development minister Pushpendra Singhdeo in the State Assembly on Friday that the state government will demolish 195 apartments constructed illegally in the capital city, the fact remains that this is not the first time that such announcement has been made by the minister of the concerned […]

Bhubaneswar: Logjam continued for the second day of the Monsoon Session at the Odisha Assembly as the ruling BJD created a ruckus over the Mahanadi and Polavarm issues. Soon after the Assembly proceedings began, the BJD leaders raised slogans against the Centre over the Mahanadi and Polavarm issues. Opposition Congress members also stormed into the […]

Bhubaneswar: As expected, the Monsoon session of the Odisha Assembly began on a stormy note and had to be adjourned by the speaker following ruckus over Mahanadi and Polavarm issues. The uproar started as soon as the proceedings began with ruling MLAs shouting slogans against Centre and Chhattisgarh over Mahanadi water dispute even during the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Monsoon session of Odisha Assembly took off with a stormy note with ruling MLAs shouting against Centre and Chhattisgarh over Mahanadi water dispute even during the recitation of national anthem. Unable to run, Speaker Niranjan Pujari adjourned the House till 3 pm. Opposition Congress termed it is a disregard to the national anthem. […]

Bhubaneswar: The monsoon session of the Odisha Assembly scheduled to begin tomorrow is most likely to be stormy. While the Opposition Congress and BJP will try to corner the government over the issues like the Mahanadi, Polavaram, Kandhamal firing, Nagada deaths, the ruling BJD has also prepared itself to counter the opposition onslaught. “The Congress […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha BJP will rake up the issue of deterioration of law and order in state during the upcoming monsoon session of the Assembly. At its legislature party meet today, the saffron party decided to raise the issue of attacks on Union minister, BJP MLA and its party members holding the ruling BJD responsible. […]

The monsoon session of the Odisha Assembly would begin from September 21, a notification to this effect was issued by the State Assembly Secretariat today after a formal approval by Governor SC Jamir

Bhubaneswar: The State Cabinet today approved the new start-up policy of the Odisha government to promote entrepreneurship in the state through provision of incentives for start-up ventures. Briefing media persons after the meeting, chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said the policy would chart a road map to place Odisha among the top three investment destinations […]

Bhubaneswar: The Congress and BJP today opposed the government’s decision to start the monsoon session of Odisha Assembly from September 7, a day after Western Odisha’s mass festival Nuakhai. The Opposition parties alleged that it is not a fair decision to begin the session from a date when the people of western Odisha are in […]

The minister was making a statement on the Pegasus project reports, published in The Wire, which showed that over 300 hone numbers - including those of two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three opposition leaders among others could have been targeted for hacking through Pegasus spyware.

PM Modi called for healthy discussions in Parliament and sought the cooperation of leaders of all political parties. He expressed hope that the sessions run smoothly and complete the business. He also expressed his condolences on the loss of lives due to COVID-19 pandemic.