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Alarnath vocational college in Brahamagiri and Dhamnagar College have declared sine die

Bhubaneswar:16/9/17; Ahead of students’ union election in Odisha, where the aspirant candidates have filed their nominations today, violence erupted in many colleges across the states. Authorities of the two colleges Alarnath vocational college in Brahamagiri and Bhadrak Dhamnagar College have declared sine die following student unrest. Staging demonstration against the decision of the college authorities, students blocked Puri-Satapada road disrupting ...

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Odisha’s Chhatrapur Notified Area Councilor stabbed to death

Berhampur:16/9/17: A councilor of Odisha’s Chhatrapur Notified Area Council (NAC) was stabbed to death while one of his associate seriously injured as a group of unidentified miscreants launched murderous attack on them in their LIC colony residence in the township. The ward no-6 councilor Laxmidutta Pradhan succumbed to the injuries while another person Tilu Panda critically injured following the attack is ...

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Odisha leader in ease of doing business ranking: Naveen

Bhubaneswar:16/9/17;Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has said the state has been recognised as a “leader” by the Centre for facilitating reforms on doing business. “In recent ranking of ease of doing business declared by the government of India, Odisha has been reckoned as a leader for facilitating reforms for doing business in the state,” Patnaik said. The state government is ...

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Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Visited Marshal of Indian Air Force Arjan Singh in Hospital 

Newdelhi:16/9/17:Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visited Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh who is critically ill following a cardiac attack today morning. Prime Minister was received by Hon’ble Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman and three Service Chiefs at Army Hospital R&R, New Delhi. A team of Doctors is monitoring his condition at Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Centre ...

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Women play an important role in development of families, communities and nations: Vice President 

Hyderabad:16/9/17:The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that Women play an important role in development of families, communities and nations and quoted Gandhian scholar and educator, Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir quote ‘if you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family’. He was addressing the gathering after ...

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Defence Minister Felicitates Eight Cantonment Boards of Western Command with ODF Certificate

  Himachalpradesh:16/9/17:Eight Cantonment Boards out of 13 under Western Command have received Open Defecation Free (ODF) certificates, issued by the Quality Council of India, from the Defence Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman during a felicitation ceremony organised at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, today. Smt Sitharaman who was the Chief Guest, presented ODF certificates to the members of the Cantonment Boards including their ...

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30 Tribal Vaidyas Plant Traditional Medicinal Plants in Herbal Garden of Sukinda Chromite Mine of Tata Steel

      Sukinda, September 16, 2017: A total of thirty tribal vaidyas from Sukinda in Jajpur district of Odisha planted traditional medicinal plants today at the herbal garden of Sukinda Chromite Mine (SCM), Tata Steel. As part of the third edition of Green Therapy Programme, the vaidyas planted around 200 saplings of 35 varieties of medicinal plants which they ...

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BJD hold demonstrations across the State to protest the hike in fuel prices

Bhubaneswar:16/9/17; The BJD on Friday announced to hold demonstrations across the State to protest the hike in fuel prices by the Central Government. Addressing a Press conference here, BJD general secretary Sanjay Dasburma said the party’s frontal organisations, Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD) and Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD) would hold demonstrations at all block headquarters from Monday next. The ...

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Akila Urankar of Business Standard has been elected as the President of INS

Bengaluru: 16/9/17;Akila Urankar of Business Standard has been elected as the President of The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2017-18 at its 78thAnnual general Meeting here on Friday, while Samahit Bal, Editor of ‘Pragativadi’- Odia daily was inducted as a member of the Executive Committee of the INS. Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama) is the new Deputy President, Shailesh Gupta ...

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BJB students staging protest and blocked road disrupting vehicular movement

Bhubaneswar:16/9/17: Ahead of students’ union election in Odisha, where the aspirant candidates are busy in filing their nominations today, the authorities of the BJB Autonomous College have declared sine die and cancelled students’ union election for this year citing ongoing tension on the college premises on the other hand. Consequently, tension erupted in BJB College after the announcement made by the ...

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