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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to waive off charges towards deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in the state. Naveen in the letter requested Modi to direct the Ministry of Home Affairs to waive...

Bhubaneswar: Showing solidarity with the states facing acute shortage of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) during the second wave of COVID-19 outbreak, Odisha government has so far sent 135 tankers carrying 2516.883 metric tonne (MT) of the life-saving gas to eight states. According to the information...

Bhubaneswar: The civic body in Bhubaneswar sealed a branch of State Bank of India (SBI) at Shriya Square in Kharavel Nagar area for the next four days starting from Thursday as many of its staff have contracted COVID-19 infection, a BMC official informed. The SBI office...

Bhubaneswar: Amid rising cases of COVID-19, the state Health and Family Welfare department Wednesday decided to give incentives to healthcare professionals across Odisha. An official circular (No.-HFW-SCH-NRHM-0008-2020-12804/H, Dated 28.04.202I) was issued by Deputy Secretary to the State government Mamata Barik in the afternoon. Also read:...

Bhubaneswar: In view of the rising cases of COVID-19 in the states, the survey of social and educational conditions of people belonging to backward classes has been held up. The survey was scheduled to begin from May 1. The Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Thursday sealed the Judicial Complex at Lewis Road here for a period of seven days starting from April 29. Informing about the move, the BMC, South East Zone, issued an order Thursday. Acting on an email request by the...

Bhubaneswar: Health and Family department of the Odisha government said Wednesday, that the vaccine doses it had received till now cannot be used for persons in the age group for 18 to 44 years. This is because the quota is for healthcare and frontline workers...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 6,998 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 4,35,513. Active caseload in the state stands at 57,710. Out of the 6,998 new infections, 4,054 were reported from quarantine centres while 2,944 persons contracted...

Bhubaneswar: With an objective to encourage farmers to cultivate cash crops, the state government has started an ambitious initiative of crop diversification in mega lift irrigation point (MLIP) ayacut areas of Odisha. An action plan in this regard for the coming kharif season was discussed...

Bhubaneswar: Former Supreme Court judge Justice Madan Bhimarao Lokur, Wednesday, said that democracy in India is under assault in recent times. His statement came at Madhu Babu Memorial Lecture titled ‘Can India’s Judiciary Rescue Her Democracy?’ organised by ‘Odisha Dialogues’ on the occasion of eminent...