Tag: Union Minister

Bhubaneswar: The Union government has approved an additional 92 Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) to be set up in Odisha on the lines of Kendriya Vidyalaya in view of providing quality education to tribal students, Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram informed on Tuesday. Informing about the development at a presser in a circuit house […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Culture and Tourism Minister Ashok Panda is scheduled to meet Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma in New Delhi today to hold discussions about the protection and conservation of Konark Sun temple. Panda informed that the meeting will be held in New Delhi along with two other MLAs in presence of Director and secretary […]

Bengaluru: Union Minister and senior BJD leader HN Ananth Kumar passed away in the wee hours of Monday in Bengaluru. He was 59. “Minister Ananth Kumar passed away at 3 a.m. at a private hospital where he was undergoing treatment for cancer,” a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Bengaluru R. Ashoka told reporters here. […]

Bhubaneswar: After the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) recommended a CBI probe into allotment of petrol pumps to gangster Tito; a flutter seems to have set in with political parties engaging in war of words by pointing fingers at each other. While the ruling-BJD dragged Union Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan into the issue raising a […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram accused the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)-led Odisha government of ignoring the tribals in the State. Speaking to the media, Jual Oram said that the state government is harassing the members of the tribal communities in Odisha in the name of caste certificates. Targeting the BJD government, the Union […]

Bhubaneswar:  A day after the ruling-BJD termed Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s claim on assistance provided by Centre to Odisha as ‘misleading’, the latter targeted the State Government stating that the Third Floor is under the control of Kala Pahada (Kala Pahada or Black Mountain is a historical character who invaded Odisha and tried to set […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stated Chhattisgarh is at fault in the Mahanadi water dispute, the ruling-BJD in Odisha today claimed that the saffron party has no clarity on the whole issue. The regional party alleged that leaders of the saffron party including the Union Minister and even the Prime Minister are […]

Bolangir: Taking a step towards fulfilling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Purvodaya’ (A prosperous East for a New India), Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday laid the foundation stone of LPG bottling plant in Bolangir. The proposed project which is being established in over 23 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs […]

Khurda: The Union Government has planned to establish two skill development centres in Khurda district at the cost of Rs 1,000 crore, informed Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. While one skill development institute will be set up near the foothills of Barunei at the cost of Rs 500 crore, a branch of the Indian Institute of […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today brushed aside the State government’s concern on use of the 2011 census data by the 15th Finance Commission for fund allocation. Explaining mediapersons, Pradhan said, “The 15th Finance Commission has given 17 percent weightage to the 1971 census data and 10 percent weightage to the 2011 data. This is […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday expressed his keenness to contest the next general polls from Odisha, but left it to the party to decide whether he would contest Lok Sabha or Assembly election. Speaking on the sidelines of an event in New Delhi to mark the 20th anniversary of OTV, Pradhan stated, “If […]

Bhubaneswar: Questioning the reason behind sending official communication to non-Hindi speaking people in Hindi, BJD MP from Dhenkanal Tathagata Satpathy on Saturday posted a thread of twitter messages saying that he replied in Odia, to a letter sent by Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in Hindi. He further stated on social media, “Why are Union […]

Bhubaneswar: To counter BJP’s attack regarding irregularities in poll funding, BJD today alleged Union Minister Jual Oram of mismatch in poll expense figures stated in his affidavit. Talking to media, BJD MP from Puri Pinaki Mishra said while Oram had mentioned at one place in the affidavit that his poll expenses are ‘nil’, in the […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram today wrote a letter to Home Minister Rajnath Singh regarding the recent egg attack on his vehicle by BJD activists during his visit to Kendrapada district and sought his intervention in the matter. In the letter, the Union Minister mentioned that those who pelted eggs at his vehicle […]

Bhubaneswar: Coming down hard on Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik’s whip on corrupt commission payment practices (known as percentages or pc) for government works at block level, Union Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan criticised his comments saying they are just a whitewash and goes on to prove that such illegal practices are existent within the government machinery […]