Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today appreciated Gajapati Superintendent of Police Sarah Sharma for lending her voice to the theme song of “She Team” – An innovative idea to raise awareness and safety of women. Naveen Tweeted her effort to propagate the issue through music will bolster confidence of citizens especially that of women on [...]

Bhubaneswar: Terming the Odisha budget 2019-20 pro-farmer, pro-women, pro-poor and growth oriented, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that the aspirations of people of Odisha have been reflected in the budget. In his remarks on budget presented by Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari in the Assembly today, Naveen said that two of the major manifesto promises have [...]

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari Friday presented the Odisha’s Rs 1, 39,000 crore annual Budget for 2019-20 fiscal in the Assembly which saw highest resource allocation in agriculture and allied sector. In the Budget 2019-20, the highest resource allocation is witnessed in agriculture and allied sector at Rs 20,174 crore, while Panchayati Raj Department got [...]

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari today presented the Budget in the Odisha Assembly for the year 2019-20. He presented a budget of One Lakh 39 Thousand Crore in the House. The development oriented budget aims to boost the farm sector and infrastructure. While the KALIA scheme has been the focal point in the Budget, creation [...]

New Delhi: The Central Government has granted final approval to National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Kalinganagar, Jajpur district, Odisha. On the receipt of proposals from State Government, the concerned central inistries/Departments have undertaken steps for creation/upgradation of external infrastructure linkages. This information was given by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, PiyushGoyal, in [...]

Bhubaneswar: It was a usual day on Thursday at the Block Education Office Bhubaneswar and everybody was careless of maintaining the decorum of the office until School and Mass Education Minister’s surprise visit. All of a sudden everything changed and the officials present had not much to explain about the irregularities. Minister Samir Ranjan Das [...]

Bhubaneswar: Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the annual budget for 2019-20 financial year today. This will be first full Budget of the Naveen Patnaik Government after it voted to power for fifth term. Last week, the state Council of Ministers headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved an annual budget of more than Rs [...]

Puri: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today took stock of the preparedness for the world famous annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath, Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra to be celebrated on July 4. Chairing the last coordination meeting at Niladri Bhakta Niwas here today, the Chief Minister directed the officials to complete the FANI restoration [...]

Odisha CM Congratulates SFC, DRDO for Successfully Test Firing of Prithvi-II Missile Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has congratulated the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful night-firing test of indigenously developed Prithvi-II missile. The trial of the surface-to-surface missile, which has a strike range of 350 [...]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has highly appreciated the Odisha Government’s cyclone Fani preparedness during his interaction with the members of the Indian community in Japan on Thursday after he arrived in Osaka for the G20 Summit. The rarest of rare summer cyclone Fani that hit the Odisha coast on May 3 was successfully [...]