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Bhubaneswar: Financial aid continued to pour in from different organizations and individuals for relief and restoration works in the cyclone Fani-affected areas in Odisha. A sum of Rs 37, 57,140 has been donated by 10 organizations and individuals to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) on Friday for rebuilding the Fani-ravaged state. According a press [...]

Bhubaneswar: Nilgiri langur, male died today morning at about 6.30 AM. It was received at Nandankanan on 26.9.17 from Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Chennai. It was 17 years old. DOB- 2.3.2002. It was observed suffering from diarrhoea and fever. It was immediately shifted to Isolation ward of zoo hospital for treatment. It showed improvement on [...]

Bhubaneswar: The body of Odia mountaineer Kalpana Das is likely to reach in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Her body was reached Kathmandu yesterday. According to reports, post-mortem would be conducted on the body at a hospital in the capital city of Nepal on Friday before it is brought to Bhubaneswar via Delhi. Kalpana died while descending [...]

(File Photo) Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday congratulated Narendra Modi on taking oath as Prime Minister of India for the second time. Taking to Twitter, Naveen conveyed best wishes to the Prime Minister and his entire team to take India further on the path of inclusive development. The Biju Janata Dal president, [...]

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday congratulated Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on being sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Naveen, who took oath as Chief Minister of Odisha for the record fifth consecutive term on Wednesday, conveyed his best wishes to Jaganmohan Reddy and hoped that [...]

Bhubaneswar: A day after sworn in as the Chief Minister of Odisha for record fifth time, Naveen Patnaik today announced a special package for Bijepur Assembly constituency in Bargarh district, which the BJD president represents for the first time in the Odisha Legislative Assembly. As per announcement, about 34,000 eligible households having Kutcha houses in [...]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s newly appointed School & Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Das on Thursday held a review meeting of the Department and stressed on the fast rebuilding of the cyclone Fani-ravaged schools. At the review meeting at the State Secretariat here, the minister urged the all concerned officials to expedite repair and restoration work of [...]

(File Photo) Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Home Department on Thursday urged the Director General of Fire Services to carry out inspection of fire safety measures at all coaching centres across the State. The directive came in the wake of a major fire mishap at a coaching centre in Gujarat’s Surat that killed at least 21 students. [...]

Bhubaneswar: The newly elected members of Odisha Legislative Assembly began taking the oath this morning, a day after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his council of ministers were sworn in. Naveen Patnaik, the leader of the House, was first administered the oath by newly appointed pro-tem speaker Amar Prasad Satpathy. The pro-tem speaker also administered [...]

Bhubaneswar: India’s lone orangutan ‘Binny’ passed away last night at Odisha’s Nandankanan Zoological Park following a prolonged illness. The aged 41-year-old orangutan died at about 9.40 PM on Wednesday due to old age complicacy followed by respiratory tract infection. The animal was under long term treatment since one year by the experts from the College [...]