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Odisha CM Sanctions Additional Rs 60 Lakh For Feeding Stray Animals Amid Lockdown

The funds released from the Chief Minister Relief Fund (CMRF), will be utilised in the state's five municipal corporations, 48 municipalities and 61 notified area councils (NACS).

  • Sunday, 23 May 2021
Press Council Of India Reiterates Demand To Include Journalists In 'COVID Warriors' Category
Press Council Of India Reiterates Demand To Include Journalists In 'COVID Warriors' Category

New Delhi: The Press Council of India on Thursday reiterated its recommendation to the Centre and state governments that journalists be included in the category of ‘COVID warriors’ and also…

  • Thursday, 06 May 2021
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BJD, BJP indulge in war of words over unemployment issue

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of BJP, today lashed out at the Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for the inefficiency on part of the State government to create employment opportunities. The policies of the State government are against youth and it has led to the dismal state of employment scenario […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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Patnaik-led committee selects Odisha Lokayukta chairperson

Bhubaneswar: The selection committee headed by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has unanimously selected the Lokayukta chairperson, an official said on Tuesday. “The panel unanimously selected the name of chairman for Odisha Lokayukta. The name will be recommended to Governor. Official notification will be issued after the Governor’s approval,” said Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi. […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
CM Naveen inaugurates several projects in Boudh

Boudh: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated and laid foundation stones of several projects in Boudh district today. In Kantamal block of the district, Patnaik laid the foundation stone for several developmental projects worth Rs 543 crore and also distributed assistance to beneficiaries under several ongoing welfare schemes. The CM also laid the foundation […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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BJP's top brass plays safe; UP CM Adityanath also goes soft on Odisha CM

Bhawanipatna/Khurda: While the Odisha unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going for broke to give a fillip to its electoral campaign in the State, it seems the top brass of the BJP has already chosen to play safe. Earlier, both Narendra Modi and Amit Shah and today Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
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Odisha sanctions additional Rs 1,000 cr for Basudha scheme

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday sanctioned an additional amount of Rs 1,000 crore for various drinking water supply projects under the Basudha scheme. The amount has been sanctioned in the Buxi Jagabandhu Assured Water Supply to Habitations (Basudha) scheme for 2018-19 financial year, said a statement from the Chief Minister’s Office. The […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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BJD MP Tathagata Satpathy closes political innings

Bhubaneswar: With the 2019 polls barely one-and-half months away, the incumbent and consecutive three-time BJD MP from Dhenkanal Tathagata Satpathy has decided to quit politics, thereby ending a long career in Odisha’s statecraft. Speculations of Satpathy quitting politics started making rounds on Monday, after he attended an 11-day ritual (shraddha) of an acquaintance in Angul […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Naveen questions absence of national leaders during calamities in Odisha

Bhubaneswar/Berhampur: Ruling BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said leaders of BJP and other national political parties visit Odisha during elections and disappear when people are in trouble. “Be it Phailin (2013), Hudhud (2014), Titli (2018) and subsequent drought and floods, Central leaders never visited the State. But as soon as elections […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Naveen's 'fitness' frame to counter Amit Shah's 'young' CM narrative

Bhubaneswar: Politics is all about bending, (arm)twisting, somersaults and a jog for power. The physical work-out video of CM Naveen Patnaik has all the elements of politics. While the message of the ‘work-out’ video is obviously politics, the making of the ‘viral’ video also has the clear political reasons behind. Someone has said, “Elevating the […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Bureaucracy doesn’t run Odisha, it’s me & my ministers who do: Naveen

Bhubaneswar: Amid growing perceptions that Odisha is being run by the bureaucrats led by a coterie, Odisha CM and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik today categorically refuted such charges. Terming it as a misconception, Patnaik said that it’s the government, ministers and him who are running the State. In an interview with the managing editor of […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
BJ planning egg attack on Naveen Patnaik?
BJD planning egg attack on Naveen to garner sympathy votes?

Kendrapara: One of the most sensitive among the coastal belts, Kendrapara parliamentary constituency this elections, has undoubtedly turned out to be the political hotbed of Odisha. Amid intensified campaigning by all three major political parties, BJP national vice-president and Kendrapara Lok Sabha candidate Baijayant Panda today expressed apprehension that BJD is conspiring an attack on […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Patkura Poll: BJP, BJD wrangle over postponement of poll date

Bhubaneswar: A day after Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking postponement of election to the Patkura Assembly constituency, a delegation of the BJP led by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today met the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) at New Delhi and urged not to defer the poll date. The […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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BJP accuses BJD of hatching conspiracy to postpone Patkura Assembly poll

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: A team of BJP including Union Minister Piyush Goyal, party’s national vice president Baijayant Panda and spokesperson Sambit Patra met the Election Commission of India today alleging conspiracy by BJD president and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik to stop Patkura Assembly polls. After meeting the EC, Sambit Patra said that the BJP wants a […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Odisha seeks 5 lakh pucca houses for cyclone-hit people

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sanction 5 lakh pucca houses for the cyclone-affected people in the state. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Patnaik requested him to consider sanctioning 5 lakh Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (G) special houses initially for the state. He also sought […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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