BHUBANESWAR: A BJD functionary’s firm has been fined Rs 24.2 crore for alleged excess mining at a stone quarry in Kasia hills of Odisha‘s Nayagarh district and has been ordered to deposit the amount by Oct 20, reports Sandip Mishra. Challenging the minor mineralwing’s decision, Bhapur block vice-chairman BenudharPradhan’s firm has moved HC. “There were…
The murder, which shocked Bengaluru, had been under investigation by multiple police teams. BHUBANESWAR: A man suspected of killing a 29-year-old woman in Bangalore and stuffing her dismembered body in a fridge before fleeing to his hometown allegedly died by suicide in Odisha’s Bhadrak town on Wednesday, police said.The manhunt launched by Karnataka police in…
KORAPUT: Come hell or high water, Anant Kumar Darli and Sujit Kumar Pujari will not stop in the path of duty, even if it means swimming through. In an extraordinary display of dedication, govt doctor Darli and his assistant Pujari swam across a flooded Odisha river in deluge-hit Malkangiri district Friday to reach patients suffering…
BHUBANESWAR: Woman employees in govt and private sectors in Odisha will get a day’s paid period leave, deputy CM Pravati Parida announced Thursday in Cuttack after an I-Day event. “The leave will be optional and can be taken on either the first or second day of the menstrual cycle, depending on the woman’s preference,” said…
BHUBANESWAR: Days after Odisha commerce and transport minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena called for a thorough probe into V K Pandian’s helicopter rides, state law minister Prithiviraj Harichandan on Sunday said the govt will investigate how 450 helipads were constructed to land the chopper carrying the bureaucrat-turned-politician.Pandian, a close aide of former chief minister Naveen Patnaik,…
Former IAS officer V K Pandian with Naveen Patnaik (ANI file photo) BHUBANESWAR: After a brief lull, former chief minister Naveen Patnaik once again came in support of his trusted aide, V K Pandian, on Monday. He dismissed a media report against the former bureaucrat as unfounded and false.The report had claimed that Pandian had…
NEW DELHI: Former chief minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik announced on Wednesday that he would assume the role of the leader of the opposition in the state assembly. This decision was reached during a meeting of the Biju Janata Dal‘s (BJD) legislature party, as Patnaik informed reporters. “We just had a meeting of the BJD…
NEW DELHI: The cabinet ministers of the Odisha government were allocated portfolios on Saturday by governor Raghubar Das on advice of CM Mohan Charan Majhi. According to the document released, Majhi has kept home ministry along with general administration and public grievance, information and public relations and water resources with himself. Deputy CM Kanak Vardhan…
NEW DELHI: As the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) govts were installed in two more states with Chandrababu Naidu and Mohan Charan Majhi taking oaths as chief ministers in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha respectively, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed confidence that the new govts will usher in record development in both the states.Prime Minister…
NEW DELHI: Former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik‘s confidant VK Pandian on Sunday announced his retirement from active politics.Pandian announcement comes days after Biju Janata Dal (BJP) faced massive setback in Odisha assembly and Lok Sabha elections.The development also follows Patnaik’s statement claiming that Pandian was not his “successor” and that the people of the state…
