Tag: Narendra Modi

Bhubaneswar: Protesting against the demonetisation, five Left parties in Odisha will stage dharnas and resort to civil disobedience in front of State Bank of India branches across the State on November 28. Speaking to newsmen here on Saturday, Dibakar Naik, CPI State Secretary, “Activists and leaders of CPI, CPIM, CPIML, SUCI and the All India […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today. Patnaik is scheduled to meet Modi in Parliament at 11pm and discuss on the demonetization move of the latter. Patnaik would discuss on various problems faced by the common people due to demonetisation. Earlier, he had written to the Prime […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of demonetisation of Rs. 1,000 and Rs. 500 notes. Talking to newsmen, Patnaik said, “I welcome this move of Union government. Demonetisation of higher denomination currency notes in circulation to check black money has been a public suggestion to the CBDT panel since […]

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a sudden address to the nation on Tuesday, announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes are being withdrawn from midnight. He said that such notes will become “mere paper”. Here’s what you need to do with your 500 and 1000 rupee notes. You can exchange the Rs […]

Bhubaneswar: Expressing deep concern over the fire mishap that took place at the Sum Hospital here claiming 19 lives on Monday evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Union Health Minister J P Nadda and asked him to facilitate transfer of all those injured to the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. In his Tweet, he wrote “Deeply anguished […]

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on his t birthday on Sunday. Wishing him on his 71st birthday the Prime Minister tweeted- “Birthday wishes to Odisha CM Shri Naveen Patnaik. Praying for his long and healthy life. @Naveen_Odisha.” Similarly, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee wished her Odisha counterpart through […]

Bhubaneswar: Former president of the JNU Students Union Kanhaiya Kumar on Monday praised Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik at a rally in Bhubaneswar for distancing himself from BJP. Kanhaiya Kumar who was addressing the Ajaadi Samavesh held in Bhubaneswar to mark the completion of 80 years of the All India Student Federation (AISF) acknowledged Naveen and […]

Bhubaneswar: It seems chief minister Naveen Patnaik doesn’t want to pursue a legal fight to resolve the Mahanadi water sharing issue with Chhattisgarh, if his public address on Sunday during the party’s Jan Sampark Jatra is anything to go by. Patnaik sought Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s intervention in this regard, two days after urging the […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for construction of fourth line between Jharsuguda in Odisha and Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh at an estimated cost of Rs1,973.46 crore

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has urged the Centre to take up the construction of the National Institute of New Energy and Innovation (NINEI) complex in Bhubaneswar at the earliest. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the state government has allocated.73.680 acres of land free of cost in […]

Drawing a similarity between the Prime Minister and the Odisha chief minister, senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh today said both of them behave like the Mouni Babas (silent monks) when there is an incident of atrocity on the dalit and tribal communities

Thirteen new armed police battalions, including three in Odisha, will be raised by the Union government to tackle the Naxal menace

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to actively consider the inclusion of three major cities of Odisha in the Smart City Mission

Bhubaneswar: Eight days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the crowd at a Vikas Utsav rally in Balasore to shout loud enough so that the state government sitting in Bhubaneswar could hear it, Union Transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday tore into the BJD government without naming it saying it is blind despite having eyes […]

Bhubaneswar: Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda has reached Washington DC to participate in the Track-II Indo-US bilateral discussions to be held during the ongoing visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A track-II team including Baijayant Panda is visiting the United States as part of the collaboration between the India Foundation and Centre for American Progress and […]