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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Wednesday issued a notification for election to one Rajya Sabha seat, marking the beginning of the nomination filing process. The seat fell vacant after Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Mohanta resigned from the seat and also quit the BJD July 31, two years...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Wednesday said it would not participate in the two-day orientation programme organised by the Odisha Assembly for the newly elected MLAs in Bhubaneswar if the schedule fixed for the event is not rectified. The orientation programme has been fixed...

Sundargarh/Bhubaneswar: To ensure good crop yields throughout the year, Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) is financially supporting Sundargarh district to construct farm ponds to provide irrigation facilities to farmlands. According to OMBADC, a total of 262 farm ponds have been excavated in the...

Bhubaneswar: In what would revolutionise the safety, efficiency and sustainability of rail transport, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has been adopting advanced ballastless track technology in railway tunnels while constructing new projects in its jurisdiction, official sources said Tuesday. ECoR initially started ballastless track in...

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered a stay on the mining of minor minerals in Mayurbhanj district, official sources said, Tuesday. The move by the Eastern Zone Bench of the NGT comprising judicial member B Amit Sthalekar and expert member Arun Kumar Verma...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday said the Centre has agreed in principle to four national highway projects in Odisha worth Rs 14,000 crore. The Centre has assured that the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for the projects will be prepared soon, he said after...

Bhubaneswar: Leader of the opposition in the Odisha assembly, Naveen Patnaik, Tuesday appealed to all the citizens to maintain peace and harmony in the state where allegations of atrocities surfaced against a section of the people. In an X post, the former chief minister said...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Tuesday appointed Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja as the working chairman of the Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee. Ahuja, a 1990-batch IAS officer, has been assigned the responsibility in addition to his current duties, a notification issued by the Law Department said....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Tuesday launched a website and mobile app for online payment of monthly electricity bills by panchayats. Deputy CM KV Singh Deo along with Rural Development Minister Rabi Narayan Naik inaugurated the website and the app, named GCMS (Government Consumer Management System)....

Bhubaneswar: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has written a letter to Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi seeking rectification of the discrepancies in the Odisha University (Amendment) Act 2020 brought by the previous BJD government. The Naveen Patnaik government had earlier amended the original Act,...