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Bhubaneswar: To further strengthen its sports infrastructure, the Odisha government has enhanced the allocation for sports sector by 34 per cent in the budget for 2023-24 over the last year. The budget of the Sports and Youth Services Department has been increased from Rs 911...

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to spread awareness about stray dog sterilisation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India volunteers, dressed as giant condoms, staged a demonstration at Lower PMG here Friday. The PETA volunteers were seen holding posters that read ‘Dogs Can’t Use...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari Friday presented the annual budget of Rs 2.30 lakh crore for the year 2023-24 in the state Assembly. The outlay is 15 per cent more than the full-fledged budget of 2022-23. Pujari said the programme budget has been increased...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition Congress and BJP members Friday stalled the question hour business in the Odisha Assembly over the farmer's suicide in the state. As soon as the Assembly assembled for the day to take up the question hour, the Opposition Congress members trooped into the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the annual Budget 2023-24 in the Assembly at 4 pm Friday. It can be mentioned here that this is the BJD government's fifth term's final full-fledged budget. The Council of Ministers has already given their approval to the 2.3 lakh crore Budget.  Meanwhile, the Economic Survey report was released Thursday.  Odisha Economic Survey key points: ...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said "transparency in governance" has created the right environment for investors in Odisha, with the state receiving numerous proposals for setting up manufacturing and service sector industries. Patnaik, during a discussion in the assembly Thursday, said the state has the...

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader Prakash Mishra claimed attempts were being made to prove that suspended ASI Gopal Das, the alleged murderer of Odisha Health Minister Naba Kishore Das, was mentally unstable so that punishment for him was relaxed. Mishra, a former director general of police...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's economy is estimated to grow at 7.8 per cent in real terms in comparison to the national rate of 7 per cent during the current financial year 2022-23, the state's economic survey report said. The Odisha Economics Survey Report for the year 2022-23,...

Bhubaneswar: Veteran Congress leader and six-time MLA Suresh Routray Thursday announced his retirement from electoral politics and said his son, Manmath Routray, would contest the next polls from Jatani assembly constituency in Odisha. Addressing a press conference here, the 80-year-old senior Congress leader said “I...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) Wednesday released a schedule of computer-based preliminary examination to be carried out for recruitment of regular teachers in government secondary schools in the state. “It is for information of all concerned that the Preliminary Examination for the post...