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Union Home Minister attends the 60th Convocation of Lucknow University

Lucknow:9/12/17;The Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Ram Naik and the Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh attended the 60th Annual Convocation of the Lucknow University in Lucknow today. Addressing the gathering, Shri Ram Naik, who is also the Chancellor of the University, laid stress on improving the quality of education due to global competition. He also called for research in ...

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NASA astronaut Mr Jack D. Fischer inspires youngsters to take up science

The Odisha Knowledge Hub Lecture today was a unique coming together of an accomplished NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut like Mr Jack David Fischer and young prodigy from our own state Jaswasi Jaswant Sahoo, a student of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla. I am happy that students from science & technology institutions, universities, colleges and also from ...

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Public hearing for environmental issues for construction of additional Spillway of Hirakud Dam

  Bhubaneswar:8/12/17;Public hearing for environmental issues for construction of additional Spillway of Hirakud Dam by state pollution control Board Bhubaneswar:

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Odisha defeats Japanese Encephalitis

Bhubaneswar:8/12/17;Odisha defeats Japanese Encephalitis. Not a single JE/AES case or death recorded in Malkangiri in 2017 against 103 deaths in 2016.There was intensified vaccination drive, awareness & preventive measures in Malkangiri. Ongoing mass vaccination in 17 dists will prevent JE in State

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Odisha government on Friday filed a counter affidavit in Supreme Court

Bhubaneswar:8/12/17; Odisha government on Friday filed a counter affidavit in Supreme Court accusing the Centre of providing misleading information on the ongoing Mahanadi water dispute with Chhattisgarh. The step comes after the Centre submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court contending that there is no need to constitute a tribunal to resolve the Mahanadi river water dispute as the Odisha government ...

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Odisha government has begun the process of constructing a new airport on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar:8/12/17; Odisha government has begun the process of constructing a new airport on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. A meeting in this regard was held in the State Secretariat today. During discussions in presence of Ministry of Civil Aviation’s joint secretary Usha Padhi and Odisha Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi among others, the Khurda district administration informed that land at Malipada, ...

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Odisha 86 petrol pumps used electronic chips for fuel theft

  Bhubaneswar:8/12/17; As many as 86 petrol pumps in Odisha had used electronic chips for fuel theft as per Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The electronic gadgets were used as part of a nation-wide racket run by petrol pump dealers that was busted by Crime Branch, Mumbai in June this year. So far 33 accused have been arrested after ...

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Odisha government approved an annual budget of Rs 70 crore for Anti-Maoist operations:Asit Tripathy

Bhubaneswar:8/12/17; With an aim to augment its operations against Left Wing Extremism (LWE), Odisha government’s State-level committee on anti-Maoist operations today approved an annual budget of Rs 70 crore for 2017-18 under the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme. This approved budget will be placed before the Centre at a crucial meeting called by it on December 11. The budgeted amount ...

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Odisha Revolutionary poet Rabi Singh will be awarded Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman

Bhubaneswar:8/12/17; Revolutionary poet Rabi Singh will be awarded Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman 2017 by Odisha Sahitya Akademi. Rabi Singh had carved out a niche for himself in Odia literature for the striking progressive trend in his poetry collections. His poetry collections include Patha prantara kabita (the poems of roadside), Charama patra (the final testament), Sithila balga (the slack rein), Lal pagoda ra preta o anya ...

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Odia film producer Anam Charan Sahoo Arrested

Bhubaneswar:8/12/17; The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of State Crime Branch today arrested Odia film producer Anam Charan Sahoo in connection with fraud committed by M/s Seven Hills Estates Limited. After conducting a probe into the fraud on the basis a complaint filed by one Subhransu Sekhar Senapati who had alleged that amount to the tune of Rs 5 crore was ...

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