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Odisha girl Arpita Behera was crowned as the Little Miss Galaxy World 2018

Sambalpur:17/3/18: Odisha girl Arpita Behera was crowned as the Little Miss Galaxy World 2018 with her outstanding performance in category of 12 and 14 years age group at the international talent and beauty pageant in Bulgaria. The little girl hails from Sambalpur city. Arpita, is a class 7 student at Saint Joseph Convent School in Sambalpur who recently made her state and the ...

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Odisha girl Simran Mishra has been elected as the president of Minnesota Student Association

Minnesota(USA)17/3/18: Odisha girl Simran Mishra has been elected as the president of Minnesota Student Association, results of which were declared late on Thursday night. Simran Mishra and Mina Kian were voted as the new Minnesota Student Association president and vice president, respectively, garnering over 83 percent of the vote. They will take over the positions that represent the undergraduate students ...

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President Ram Nath Kovind advised the lawyers of the nation to be a voice for the voiceless

Cuttack:17/3/18: President Ram Nath Kovind, while delivering the 3rd Foundation Day Lecture of the National Law University (NLU) in Odisha’s Cuttack, today advised the lawyers of the nation to be a voice for the voiceless and bring justice to the most deprived. The first citizen of the country, who reached Odisha today on his maiden visit to the state, said that an advocate is a law officer of ...

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International Conference ‘Purbasa’ –East Meets East saw an impressive gathering

Bhubaneswar:17/3/18: The second day of International Conference ‘Purbasa’ –East Meets East saw an impressive gathering of diplomats, intellectuals, ambassadors from east and north east India and also from South Asian countries. The 1st session of technical session was based on the Economic co-operation of India with Asean countries which was chaired by Dr Rajat Nag, distinguished fellow NCAER. Ambassadors from countries ...

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Congress has chosen Manisha Tripathy as youngest member of All-India Congress Committee

Nabarangapur17/3/18::Congress, The grand old party of India is constantly making efforts to strengthen roots in Odisha. As the assembly and Lok Sabha Poll are not much far away, The party is trying hard to morph itself as a blend of youth and old. Making an atempt to achieve this goal, Congress has chosen Manisha Tripathy as youngest member of All-India ...

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Ex-Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty appointed as a BJD vice-president

Bhubaneswar:17/3/18: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday appointed former Law Minister Raghunath Mohanty as a BJD vice-president and the party observer of Dhenkanal district. Mohanty had had resigned Naveen Patnaik Ministry after he was arrested in a dowry torture case filed by his daughter-in-law Barsa Swony Choudhury in March 2013. Subsequently, he was suspended ...

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BJP is emerging as the main Opposition party in Odisha: Dharmendra Pradhan

Bhubaneswar:17/3/18: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has made an undeclared alliance with the Congress and this has been proved from the BJD’s winning Bijepur by-poll recently; and the BJP is emerging as the State’s main Opposition party, said senior BJP leader and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan here yesterday. The Petroleum Minister said this after being given a rousing reception by BJP ...

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Gumudumaha police firing report was submitted to Odisha government

Bhubaneswar: 17/3/18:Report of the sensational Gumudumaha police firing in which five people were killed in Kandhamal district was submitted to Odisha government here today by the probe Commission. A 104-page report was submitted to Home department by Justice Janab Mohammed Ajmal Commission of Inquiry. Notably, five tribal including an infant travelling in an auto rickshaw were killed during anti-Maoist operation ...

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President Ram Nath Kovind dedicated the ancestral house of legendary leader Biju Patnaik to the people of Odisha

  Cuttack:17/3/18 President Ram Nath Kovind today dedicated the ancestral house of legendary leader Biju Patnaik- Anand Bhawan at Cuttack in presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after his arrival in Odisha on a two-day visit. Dedicating Anand Bhavan to the people, President Ram Nath Kovind said “When Biju Babu was steel minister, he was called Steel Man in Delhi”. ...

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Tribal Students Trek Ten Kilo Metres To Air Grievance

Baripada:16/3/18: The students of a government-run residential school for tribal children from a perennially backward pocket of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district today braved sultry summer and trekked more than ten kilo metres to air their grievances with the district administration. 55 students majority of them being girls from Balidiha village left for the collector’s office leaving both the civil and police administration ...

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