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Note ban anniversary: OTV's reality check at Odisha’s first cashless village

Puri: With what is being touted as one of the ‘boldest measures’ in Indian economy, one year has passed since the decision by the Centre to demonetise high value currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000. One year on, OTV did a reality check on the effect of demonetisation at Nuagaon village under Satyabadi […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
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Odisha govt crackdown on sale of fertlisers at pre-GST price

Bhubaneswar: The Cooperation Department has directed Markfed and fertiliser traders to sell old stock at revised price following implementation of GST. The directive comes after some traders were caught selling the fertilisers at old price despite a slash in price post GST. Even the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers recently wrote to the State to […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
Kalinga Stadium’s warm-up ground to be thrown open to students

Bhubaneswar: Students from schools, colleges and Universities can take advantage of the world-class warm-up stadium of the Kalinga Stadium. The Odisha government is planning to encourage educational institutions which do not have their own tracks and grounds to make use of the facilities of the Kalinga Stadium. “We will now encourage all schools, colleges and […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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Old friend or new ally: Odisha CM Naveen’s dilemma over Vice-Presidential pick

Bhubaneswar: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik might be finding himself in a dilemma over his choice of candidate for the post of Vice-President of India. After pledging his support to NDA candidate for the President’s post Ram Nath Kovind, an old friend of Naveen, Gopalkrishna Gandhi has been fielded as the Vice-President candidate by the UPA […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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Attack on OTV crew: 3 accused arrested by Kharvelnagar police

Bhubaneswar: Kharvelnagar police on Thursday arrested three miscreants for attacking OTV crew which caught them on camera while assaulting an auto driver in front of the BJP office here. The accused have been identified as Jeet Mohanty (18), Duresh Naik (24) and Sagar Dalai (23) were arrested near Bhubaneswar railway station by Commissionerate police after […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
Mahanadi row: Odisha flags concern over delay in tribunal formation

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has once again raised its concern over delay in constitution of a tribunal over the Mahanadi river dispute with Chhattisgarh. Citing that such delay would give undue advantage to the Chhattisgarh government and adversely affect Odisha’s interests, the State government has written a letter to the Union secretary of Water Resources. “After the […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
VIMSAR doctor caught working in private nursing home during duty hours

Burla: A doctor of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR), Burla was today caught red-handed while working at a private nursing home during his duty hours in Sambalpur. According to sources, the accused doctor in question was performing ultra sound at Rohini Diagnostic in Burla during his duty hours when he […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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Mystery continues over dead bodies found in well in Gajapati

Parlakhemundi: Mystery over recovery of dead bodies of a woman along with her son and daughter at Narangijhula village under Rayagada police limits in Gajapati district remains unsolved even after 12 hours of the incident. The circumstances that led to death of the three still remain unknown as the husband of the deceased woman is […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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BSE Odisha Results: Check supplementary, Open School matric exam results today

Cuttack: The results of the annual Matric supplementary examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha will be declared today. Examination Committee of BSE will hold a meeting at 9 am after which the results will be declared by 9.30 am. Students can get the details of their results on the two websites […]

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
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'Chakada' returns to haunt Odisha farmers

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: After crops in over 1.10 lakh acres of farmland across the state were affected due to brown plant hoppers last year, farmers expected that the Odisha government would come up with plans to prevent such pest attack. However, it seems that the government has learnt nothing from the ‘Chakada (brown plant hopper)’ menace that […]

  • Thursday, 01 July 2021
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  • Sunday, 27 June 2021
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Youth Congress & NSUI burn Vishal Dev’s effigy, seek his apology

Bhubaneswar: Massive protests erupted at several places across the State today against senior bureaucrat and Odisha Sports Secretary Vishal Dev for being blatantly disrespectful to a correspondent of OTV during a press meet in his chamber yesterday. Members of the Youth Congress and Odisha unit of National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) took to streets […]

  • Friday, 18 June 2021
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Leave, go, I have not permitted you, don’t waste my time: Vishal Dev to OTV reporter at press meet

Bhubaneswar: In what can be termed as a blatant disrespect to the fourth pillar of democracy – the media, the Odisha Sports Secretary, a senior bureaucrat Vishal Dev today asked a reporter of OTV to get out of a press meet he had called. At around 12.48 pm today noon, OTV reporter Niranjan Reddy reached […]

  • Friday, 18 June 2021
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Muzzling media: Privilege motion against OTV after telecast of factual report

Bhubaneswar: Opposition party chief whip, Tara Prasad Bahinipati today brought a Breach of Privilege motion against OTV after the channel telecast a factual report yesterday on how the Speaker adjourned the House after being prompted by the secretary. Following the motion, the Assembly Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat has directed the House secretary to issue notice […]

  • Friday, 18 June 2021
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Op-Ed: Fissures in media allow govt to browbeat it

Can a bureaucrat – or anyone anyone holding a public office for that matter – eject a reporter from a briefing for the media on the grounds of ‘biased’ coverage? Or pick and choose which media outlet s/he would talk to? The answer, I am afraid, has to be an emphatic and unambiguous ‘No’! It […]

  • Thursday, 10 June 2021
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