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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urged the students to participate in large number in the state-level ‘Bana Mahotsav’, a tree planting festival, for building a green and beautiful Odisha. Addressing the students in an event at Raj Bhawan Upper Primary School here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister said, “Tree is life. If trees exist, our [...]

Bhubaneswar: Putting integrity on top of his philosophy of governance, besides working for all the people without fear or favour since 2000, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today taught his own philosophy of Governance to the newly elected MLAs at his residence. Showing the path to the legislators, Patnaik unraveled many of his secret philosophy [...]

Bhubaneswar: An Aahaar Centre at Paradeep in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district has received the ISO Certification for maintaining quality and standard. Aahaar Kendra, Paradeep Municipality has bagged the certification for providing cooked meals to the people at the cost of Rs 5 per meal with hygienic atmosphere. This has been announced by the Odisha Housing & [...]

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today met the newly elected MLAs from the BJD at his residence here and advised them to follow the 5Ts mantra sincerely in dealing with the people. During his interaction with the first-time party legislators, the five-time Chief Minister laid utmost emphasis on his 5Ts [...]

Bhubaneswar: Admissions for +2 courses in higher secondary schools across Odisha began from today. The candidates selected in the first phase can take admissions between July 3 and July 6 (5 pm). As many as 3,75,958 students had applied for admissions. Of them 3,33,573 students have been selected in the first phase. Cut-off marks for [...]

Bhubaneswar: Keeping in view the prevailing market prices of pulses and vegetables, the Odisha Government has decided to increase the unit cost of ration to serve nutritious mid-day meals (MDM) to the school students in the State. As per sources, the average ration cost for primary students has been increased Rs 4.80 to Rs 4.93 [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is able to accelerate agricultural prosperity through various schemes and missions across all areas of agricultural activities, said Agriculture Minister Arun Sahoo here today. The Minister, while rejecting the adjournment motion over farm distress, asserted that the KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) scheme has been introduced for the overall development [...]

Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway (ECoR) has launched a Special Awareness Drive for travelling passengers in overcrowded trains. Railway administration has urged the passengers to avoid train journey on footboard, buffers and rooftop of the train compartments for their safe journey, the ECoR said in a release. “Passengers are requested not to take food and drinking [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress is facing difficult time inside the Assembly in its first session itself. The weapon Odisha Congress used to apply against the BJD during 15th Assembly turned as boomerang for the Congress this session. The Odisha Assembly was adjourned twice on Monday as Congress members created noisy scenes demanding a discussion on challenges [...]

Cuttack: A special team of seven doctors have been formed for the treatment of conjoined twin girls, who were born in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district on Monday. The team comprising doctors from pediatric surgery, pediatric medicine, new born wing, ICU team and cardiology department will be led by Hiranya Mohanty, informed Saroj Satpathy, Superintendent of Sishu [...]