Tag: Odisha Assembly

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: New courses in Post Graduate and M.Phil will be introduced in three colleges across the State along with an increase in number of seats of various departments in these institutions. Odisha Assembly Standing Committee granted approval to the courses and seat increase in the colleges during a meeting on Monday. The new courses and […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Voting for the 14th President of India began at Odisha Assembly at 10 am today. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and many MLAs reached the Assembly to exercise their power to vote. The contest for the President post is between National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee Ram Nath Kovind and candidate of several major opposition […]

Bhubaneswar: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Odisha Assembly will investigate into the alleged scam in distribution of Sattu to children and pregnant women in Bolangir district. Informing about the development, PAC chairperson and Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra said, “The matter will be discussed in the PAC on July 4. All the concerned officers […]

Bhubaneswar: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill will be taken up for discussion in the Odisha Legislative Assembly tomorrow after the members of the house unanimously approved a motion for the same. Earlier today, Finance minister Sashibhushan Behera introduced the GST Bill 2017 and the VAT amendment Bill. However, having received the copy of […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has called for a two-day special session of Legislative Assembly starting today to deliberate on the GST and VAT (amendment) bill in the House. Prior to it, a workshop on GST was organised by the Finance Department on Wednesday for legislators. The law makers were imparted training by the experts and […]

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced party spokesperson Pratap Deb as the party nominee for Rajya Sabha while former Finance Minister Pradip Amat will be the speaker of the State Assembly. Election of Pratap Deb during the RS by-poll on May 25 is a mere formality as BJD has a thumping majority in […]

Bhubaneswar: Finally all the speculations came to an end after CM Naveen Patnaik cleared the names of 11 new leaders of BJD who were inducted into the State cabinet in what was the biggest reshuffle in the history of the party’s rule. While 6 have been given cabinet rank, 5 were inducted as Ministers of […]

Bhubaneswar: Visible flutter set in the existing order today signalling a ministry reshuffle likely to come any time soon. The most noticeable shake up came after the ruling party BJD effected a major rejig in the party organization. As many as 5 ministers -Debi Mishra, Arun Sahoo, Sanjay Dasburma, Pradeep Panigrahy, Pranab Prakash Das- were […]

Bhubaneswar: With buzz surrounding the ministry reshuffle getting shriller, Speaker of the Odisha Assembly, Niranjan Pujari resigned from his post today, stoking speculations that he might be set for ministerial berth in the likely reshuffle of the cabinet. According to sources, Niranjan arrived at the Assembly today evening and handed over his responsibilities to the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly saw regular adjournments today amid ruckus created by opposition in connection with the Ganjam’s district Patrapur gangrape case. Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra repeated his demand of a Crime Branch probe into the incident. Mishra termed it as a shameful incident for whole country. He said such an incident would have rocked […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today decided to abolish all border unified inter-state check gates except one at Nalda from April 1, 2017. The announcement in this regard was made by Finance minister Pradip Kumar Amat in the assembly. The check gate at Nalda bordering Jharkhand will be operated by the Steel and Mines department only for […]

Berhampur: Not only the BJP Yuva Morcha is agitating here against the decision of the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) to hike the electricity tariff, general public were also seen today demanding reversal in the decision of the commission. “The current power tariff is already hurting the electricity consumers and the increase in the tariff […]

Bhubaneswar: Demanding an increase in minimum support price (MSP) for paddy and opposing the recent hike power tariff, Opposition members today created pandemonium in the State Assembly leading to adjournments thrice in the pre-lunch session today. As soon as the House assembled to begin today’s business, Congress and BJP legislators stormed to the well and […]

Bhubaneswar: The demand for raising Minimum Support Price (MSP) of paddy is likely to rock the Odisha Assembly again. As the issue is still to be discussed in the House, the Opposition may demand a discussion on it today. According to sources, Business Advisory Committee of the House is to finalize a date for discussion […]