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Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday laid foundation stones and dedicated four railway projects valued at Rs 2,871 crore in Odisha. These projects are set to enhance rail connectivity, decongest key routes, and contribute to the socio-economic development of the region, the PM said. Among...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said women empowerment is key to development of Odisha, asserting that the third NDA government at the Centre, in its first 100 days, has taken a large number of steps for their welfare. Addressing a rally in Bhubaneswar, he...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said the Congress and its "ecosystem" was angry with him for taking part in Ganesh Puja. Addressing a rally in Bhubaneswar, PM Modi made the comment in an apparent reference to the criticism by the opposition parties for participating...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday launched ‘Subhadra Yojana’, a women-centric scheme of the Odisha government, and unveiled railway and national highway projects worth over Rs 3,800 crore in the state. Modi also released the first instalment of assistance to nearly 10 lakh beneficiaries under...

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday visited Sabar Sahi slum in Gadakana in Bhubaneswar and inaugurated the houses of beneficiaries of PMAY-Urban. Accompanied by Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, Modi spent around 30 minutes with the beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban and...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Governor Raghubar Das Tuesday greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 74th birthday. PM Modi is on a one-day visit to Odisha to launch the state government's flagship women-centric initiative, Subhadra Yojana, besides railway and national highway...

Bhubaneswar: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Monday urged Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi to order a high-level inquiry into the death of an engineering student from Ranchi at a college in Bhubaneswar. Abhishek Ravi, 19, was admitted to the college in Khandagiri on September 10....

Bhubaneswar: Six persons were detained by the Excise department on charges of adulteration following a raid conducted at an authorised (licensed) Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) shop in Baramunda area here, Monday. Sources in the Excise department said that the suspects, working as salesmen at the...

Bhubaneswar: A day after a serving officer of the Indian Army and his female friend were allegedly assaulted at the Bharatpur police station where they had gone to report a road rage instance, the Odisha State Ex-Servicemen Association Monday demanded the suspension of IIC Dinakrushna...

Bhubaneswar: In a unique display of craftsmanship, students of Dhauli College of Art and Crafts near the Peace Pagoda have created an eco-friendly idol of Lord Vishwakarma using sago and mustard. The 9-foot-tall idol made using 10kg sago and 3kg mustard took 15 days for...