Bhubaneswar: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), in collaboration with the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA), organised a pre-event conference for Global Wind Day here, Wednesday. The speech of MNRE joint secretary Lalit Bohra was read out by IREDA director (Finance) BK...
Bhubaneswar: Despite the prior announcement of restrictions on vehicular movement for the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in the state, traffic on major thoroughfares across Bhubaneswar came to a grinding halt Wednesday. The situation was exacerbated, especially, on the route connecting Nalco Square and...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha's BJP government in its first Cabinet meeting approved a proposal to re-open all four gates of Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri on early Thursday morning and set up a corpus fund for immediate requirement of the 12th-century shrine. This was stated by Chief...
Bhubaneswar: After taking oath in Odisha's first BJP government Wednesday, a number of ministers in the Mohan Majhi government said that fulfilling promises under the ‘Modi ki guarantee' will get priority. The party's elections manifesto, titled "Modi Ka Guarantee for Odisha 2024”, promised, among others,...
Bhubaneswar: A tribal leader from the Santali community, Mohan Majhi, has had a remarkable political journey from being the sarpanch of a gram panchayat in the backward, tribal-dominated Keonjhar district to becoming the first BJP Chief Minister of Odisha. However, he faces numerous challenges, including...
Bhubaneswar: Barring Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, none of the 15 council of ministers including Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi who were sworn in Wednesday, have any experience as ministers in the state. Out of 16 ministers, only five including the Chief Minister...
Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with several dignitaries witnessed the grand swearing-in ceremony of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Odisha Wednesday. Notably, Mohan Charan Majhi was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Odisha by Governor Raghubar Das. Apart from Majhi,...
New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: Lauding the swearing-in of the first BJP government in Odisha as historic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed confidence Wednesday that it will usher in record development in the state. Modi attended the oath ceremony in Bhubaneswar and congratulated new Chief Minister Mohan...
Bhubaneswar: Four-time MLA and tribal leader Mohan Charan Majhi was Wednesday sworn in as the first BJP chief minister of Odisha at a ceremony here attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several Union ministers and Chief Ministers. Senior BJP leader and Patnagarh MLA KV Singh...
Bhubaneswar: Mohan Charan Majhi was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Odisha by Governor Raghubar Das Wednesday at a ceremony that was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Union Ministers and senior BJP leaders at Bhubaneswar’s Janata Maidan. Apart...
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The alleged suicide by a second-year B. Tech student of the prestigious IIT Bombay, one of India’s most premier institutes,...
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Political satire, which in the present social media age also assumes the form of memes, is a healthy process of...
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