Tag: Union Minister

New Delhi: Union minister Smriti Irani and Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya on Tuesday awarded 12 women from different parts of the country to recognise the transformational impact of their work across villages, towns and cities. “Women Transforming India Awards”, this year, to promote equal opportunity of women, received 3,000 entries from across the […]

Jalandhar: If India is looking for a substantial future in science and technology, then it has to ensure a just and vibrant future for women in this field, Union Minister Smriti Irani said Saturday. She asserted gender parity is not the responsibility of women alone and that men should play an active role. Speaking at […]

New Delhi: The Ram temple should be built in Ayodhya through mutual consent, and is not a “communal or religious” issue, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Tuesday. The senior BJP leader also said that the issue is linked to India’s rich culture, heritage and history. “Ayodhya issue is not a communal issue and is not […]

New Delhi: Union Minister M J Akbar returned here Sunday from a tour of Africa amid mounting demand for his resignation over allegations of sexual harassment by a number of women journalists in the last few days. The Minister of State for External Affairs evaded a barrage of questions from the media over the allegations […]

Rourkela: Paradip would be developed into a smart port and smart city at an investment of Rs 40,000 crore as part of the Centre’s plan to bring about a speedy development of Odisha, Union minister Nitin Gadkari announced today. “The Centre is committed to speedy development of Odisha. While road network is being expanded in […]

Berhampur: Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan today advocated linking of Mahanadi and Rushikulya rivers saying it will enable the creation of irrigation potential in several Odisha districts. “The linking of the two rivers will enable creation of irrigation potential in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts and mitigate the nagging problem of drinking water scarcity in Berhampur […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister of State for Rural Development Ram Kripal Yadav today sought clarification from Odisha government on the central assistance given for different welfare schemes and accused the ruling BJD of “looting” public money. “Every gram panchayat gets a direct financial assistance of Rs 422 per head each year for carrying out developmental work. […]

Bhubaneswar: Union minister Ram Kripal Yadav today came down heavily on the Odisha government for not providing him with an adequate security cover as per protocol. “The state government did not provide me with security as per protocol. This is the first time I saw this kind of a behaviour of a state government towards […]

Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is not an enemy of BJP but its political rival

Rural Development Minister and senior BJP leader from Maharashtra Gopinath Munde today died here in a road accident.......

Jharsuguda: With a Boeing-737 flight of Indian Air Force (IAF) making the first trial landing on the runway of Jharsuguda airport on Tuesday ahead of the airport’s scheduled inauguration on September 22, the long cherished dream of the residents here for an airport has inched closer. As per reports, the flight took off from the […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting here to discuss internal security, border management and an early morning air strike by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Indian military installations, a day after the Indian Air Force (IAF) bombed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) biggest training camp at Balakot in […]

Bhubaneswar/Angul: Ahead of general elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today kicked off its poll campaign in Odisha by taking out ‘Vijay Sankalp Yatra’ across the State. As part of the yatra, the party has set a target to organise 5,000 meetings beginning today till March 17. Rallies and public meetings will be organised in all […]

New Delhi: A United States-based activist from Gilgit has claimed that more than 200 militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group were killed in Indian Air Force air strikes in the Balakot region of Pakistan on February 26, while citing reports of the local Urdu media in the neighbouring country. According to an ANI report which […]

Bhubaneswar: With veteran Bijay  Mohapatra mollified and back in the BJP fold there is intense speculation about the possible return of his comrade-in-arms, former union minister, Dilip Ray to the party. Ray, who was elected to the state assembly from Rourkela on a BJP ticket in 2014, had quit the party miffed at the inordinate […]