Tag: Narendra Modi

Bhubaneswar: The House Committee today met to discuss the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of paddy. Agriculture minister Damodar Rout said the state government will meet Prime Minister Modi by June 30 to discuss the MSP. During the meeting of the House Committee on paddy MSP, Rout said that the government will again try to get […]

Bhubaneswar: On a day when the BJD led government is celebrating its third year in the fourth consecutive term rule in the state, MP Bhartruhari Mahtab preferred eulogising  the Narendra Modi-government in Centre through a newspaper column. The parliamentarian, of late, has been in the eye of many storms for his writings in the editorial […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: On completion of three years of the Narendra Modi-led government, the Odisha BJP has decided to shift its focus on rural areas to strengthen its position in the state. Eleven party leaders from the state including spokesperson Golak Mohapatra, Pradeep Purohit, Pratap Sarangi and others on Sunday attended a meeting chaired by Amit […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leaving no stone unturned to strengthen the party organisation in the State, its Rourkela MLA Dilip Ray today alleged dilly-dallying by his own party-led government at the Centre and accused it of showing apathetic attitude towards the Steel City. Ray alleged that Modi had promised construction […]

Bhubaneswar: Urging the Centre to facilitate the early construction of the proposed National Institute of New Energy and Innovation in the state capital, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention in the issue. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) had decided to set […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning to celebrate three years of the Narendra Modi government in a grand way. Party sources said, programmes will be spread over almost a fortnight, when Union ministers and MPs here will reach out to people to propagate how various programmes have helped the people and educate them […]

Bhubaneswar: National Women’s Commission (NWC) member Sushma Sahu, on Thursday, lashed out at the State police for its biased approach towards the Parbati Sasmal case. Sasmal of Kalikuda in Jagatsinghpur district, was allegedly attacked by BJD supporters for handing over a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a road show in Bhubaneswar. Sahu met […]

Bhubaneswar: The grandson of freedom fighter Laxmi Indira Panda, who came to Bhubaneswar for felicitation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Raj Bhavan on April 16, is yet to reach his home in Jeypore of Koraput district. Three of the four family members of Indira Panda, including the grandson Babula, went to the Bhubaneswar […]

Bhubaneswar: Kin of freedom fighter Chakara Bisoi who was felicitated by PM Narendra Modi in Bhubaneswar landed in controversy after descendants and locals alleged that the actual heritor of the freedom fighter was not felicitated. As per allegations, Chakara was childless. He had two brothers Nanda and Sankha whose descendants are living in Bhanjanagar, Jagannath […]

Bhubaneswar: CM Naveen Patnaik today ordered the Balasore Collector to assist freedom fighter Laxmi Indira Panda’s daughter-in-law Sujata Panda in returning home when she boarded wrong train and got stranded after attending PM Modi’s felicitation ceremony in Bhubaneswar. According to sources, Sujata who had to go to Jeypore boarded a wrong train to Balasore. She […]

Bhubaneswar: After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s recently concluded two-day National Executive meet in which party leaders across the country delved into its pan-India poll roadmap, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to hold a public rally here during her three-day Odisha visit beginning tomorrow. If sources are […]

Bhubaneswar: In a quite eventful visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Odisha for BJP’s two-day National Executive Meet here, another eye catching incident caught everyone’s attention in which a young woman put the police and security officials on their toes for a while when she was trying to meet the PM. As per sources, […]

Bhubaneswar: As the two-day BJP’s national executive meet concluded, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was here for the last two day to attend the grand conference, flied to Surat in the afternoon today with the prasad, which he offered to Lord Lingaraj in the morning. Top party leaders including Odisha chief Basant Panda, KV […]

Bhubaneswar: After assuming office as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi visited the Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar for the first time amidst tight security arrangements and paid obeisance to the deities at the sacred shrine. With chanting of slokas and hymns, Modi performed abhisekh and also offered bel leaves and flowers to the deity at the main temple for nearly […]

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is here in Bhubaneswar to attend BJP’s National Executive Meet, will offer obeisance to Lord Lingaraj on Sunday. Modi is also scheduled to felicitate the descendants of families associated with the rebellion against British colonialsm, called the Paika rebellion. The felicitation ceremony will be organised at Raj Bhavan between 8 am […]