Governance

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court restricting the Odisha government from creating new districts without its permission has come as jolt to its plan to upgrade Padampur sub-division in Bargarh district to a separate district. A division…
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Bhubaneswar: In a novel initiative to reduce the number of accidents, the Odisha government has decided to make arrangement for offering free tea to drivers of vehicles during night on highways in the state. Giving this information,…
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Bhubaneswar: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday wrote to his cabinet colleague Mansukh Mandaviya over diarrhoea outbreak in Odisha’s Rourkela. He has sought the Union Health Minister’s personal intervention on the…
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Rourkela: Amid concerns over cholera cases in Odisha’s Rourkela, Principal Secretary of Housing and Urban Development G Mathi Vathanan and Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Shalini Pandit visited the Steel City on Wednesday to assess…
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Rourkela: As the death toll due to diarrhoea outbreak in Odisha’s Rourkela mounted to ten on Tuesday, laboratory tests of some samples confirmed the presence of cholera-causing bacteria. Altogether ten deaths have been reported so far…
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday laid the foundation for the corporate office of Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) at Jayadev Vihar in Bhubaneswar. The platinum rated green building of the OMC will be constructed in an…
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has decided to make 102 additional irrigation projects operational in one year at a cost of Rs 207 crore in Shergad and Hinjilikatu blocks of Ganjam district. 5T and Nabin Odisha chairman VK Pandian said…
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday inaugurated 59 lift irrigation projects in 13 districts. About 80,000 hectare of dry land will be irrigated through these facilities that have been constructed under the Parvati…
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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday approved a proposal to build seven multi-purpose cyclone shelters in seven gram panchayats under four blocks of Puri district at a cost of Rs 14 crore. During the district visit of…
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Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha on Friday announced that the beneficiaries under the State Food Security Scheme (SFSS) will continue to get free rice of 5 kg per person every month for another five years. The state…
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