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Bhubaneswar:4/9/17; Top officials of Odisha government and Hockey India CEO Elena Norman today discussed the preparations for the Men’s Hockey World Cup in 2018, scheduled to be held here at Kalinga Stadium. With around 30,000 spectators and tourists expected to visit Bhubaneswar during the mega event, the state government is planning to develop more guest houses to accommodate visitors. “We ...

Bhubaneswar:4/9/17:  Making mockery of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Vice President and Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Surya Narayan Patro today said his party will clinch at least 123 seats in the 2019 assembly elections. The BJD veteran said that his party is eyeing to win all 147 seats in the upcoming polls. “Though our party ...

Bhubaneswar:4/9/17: Chairman of Railway Claims Tribunal (RCT) has ordered for the Special Benches of Railway Claims Tribunals to inquire into and decide the compensation claims of the victims of the recent Kalinga Utkal Express and Kaifiyat Express accidents so that compensation can be handed over immediately without any delays. 18477 Puri-Haridwar Kalinga Utkal Express had derailed on August 19 and 12225 ...

Bhubaneswar:4/9/17: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today felicitated Eeshanee Tripathy for winning Space Settlement Design Contest at NASA. Patnaik honoured the Rourkela girl at state secretariat here. “I congratulate Eeshanee Tripathy for the achievement and wish her great success ahead,” Naveen Patnaik said. The Class XII, Delhi Public School was the only student from India to participate in the prestigious ...

Cuttack:4/9/17:Orissa High Court today asked the crime branch of state police to submit report investigation report in connection with the unlawful appointment of 274 employees in the millennium city’s civic body. The job scam had rocked the CMC after it had to light in 2003 when the civic administration had stumbled upon at least 144 employees drawing salaries since 1998 ...

Bhubaneswar;4/9/17:Odisha government today initiated the process for the recovery of Rs 17,576 crore penalties from 152 mining companies for illegal extraction of mineral resources. Earlier the Supreme Court had ordered that the entire price of illegally mined ore from the mineral-rich districts of Odisha be recovered from the leaseholders. The state government, which has come under clouds of suspicion for ...

Bhubaneswar: Expressing strong displeasure over non-compliance of report on the alleged improprieties in government plot allotment, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has threatened to invoke Section 13 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 against the state government. “Issue reminder to the Chief Secretary, Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, directing him to submit the required information/documents within four weeks, failing which ...

Bhubaneswar:4/9/17: Amid show of protest by Congressmen, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated the much-awaited Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital (SLNMCH) built in Koraput built at a cost of Rs 192 crore. Ahead of the SLNMCH’s inauguration, police took hundreds of congressmen including four sitting legislatures under preventive detention as they waves black flags to register their protest ...

Xiamen:4/9/17: In a major diplomatic win for India, a joint declaration adopted by the BRICS member states on Monday unanimously condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. The BRICS grouping of nations that includes India and China has, for the first time, named Pakistan-based groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Haqqani network in a strongly-worded declaration condemning terror. “We ...

Bhubaneswar:4/9/17; Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today left for Koraput from Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) at 9.50 am by Air C90 (VT-EJZ) Aircraft to unveil a statue of freedom fighter Saheed Laxman Nayak at the new medical college premises in the district. The Chief Minister is scheduled to arrive at Jeypore airstrip at 10.45 am and will then fly in ...