Tag: Odisha

The situation has triggered widespread resentment among the residents of the concerned areas.

Though 1990- batch IAS officer Ahuja will retire after six months, he is considered a strong contender for the coveted post.

Star defender Amit Rohidas has been selected in the squad as the only Odia player. This will be the second Olympics for Amit.

In Puri, termites have damaged the 'Sakhi' wooden idols used in Rath Yatra chariots due to poor maintenance. This has caused discontent among devotees and servitors, who now demand better care and preservation of these religious artifacts.

The matter came to the fore when a woman depositor came to the Kumajharia branch post office to withdraw money from her account. However, she couldn’t withdraw money and didn’t get any satisfactory answer from the postmaster.

Demolition activities were carried out at former BJD MLA and the party’s organisational secretary Pranab Prakash Das’ government quarters in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.

The Regional Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar has issued ‘Yellow Warning’ for heavy rainfall activities in several districts of the State. 

More than 20 labourers were engaged in the demolition work by locking the quarters from outside and nobody was allowed inside it. 

In Koraput district, Padua police station facilitated the marriage of Rabindra Chalan and Manjula Hantal after resolving a complaint by convincing both families. This rare police intervention turned the station into a marriage venue, earning local praise.

The Indian government has halted the process of diverting forest land to Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS) amid allegations against its owner, former BJD MP Achyuta Samanta, for land grabbing. The Tribal Affairs Ministry seeks clarification on the Forest Rights Act compliance before proceeding.

Odisha Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan informed that emphasis will be given to appointing a full-time administrator of Srimandir in the first 100-day agenda of the newly formed government.

The practice continues to prevail in several parts of the State leaving farmers in the lurch. The ‘katni-chhatni’ process has irked most of the farmers leading to further delay in the procurement process.

Current Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Satyabrata Sahu and Development Commissioner Anu Garg are reportedly leading the race to replace Jena at the helm of the State bureaucracy. The current Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha, Nikunja Bihari Dhal has also emerged as another frontrunner in the race.

Odisha placed demands for a second AIIMS and expansion of Paradip Port among others before the Central Government.

Two BJD Corporators- Biranchi Narayan Mahasupakar and Bharat Lenka contested against each other in the election of a Standing Committee Chairman post of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).