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Bhubaneswar, December 18, 2025:The much-awaited Sargiful Festival 2025 was inaugurated today by Nityanand Gond, Hon’ble Minister, School and Mass Education, Scheduled Tribe & Scheduled Caste Development, Minority & Backward Classes Welfare, Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. The three-day state-level festival is being organised under the aegis of the Academy of Tribal Language and Culture Academy under Scheduled ...

Bhubaneswar: 17/12/25:Odisha held the third State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) meeting of the flagship plantation campaign “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0” at the Home Department Conference Hall in Bhubaneswar on December 17. The meeting reviewed monitoring progress, portal data uploads, and plantation survival rates. Additional Chief Secretary Satyabrata Sahu, Forest, Environment & Climate Change Department, chaired the session. He ...

Berhampur:17/12/25:Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi attended the 42nd annual function of Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir at Nilakantha Nagar, Berhampur, and announced several development projects for the city and Ganjam district. The Chief Minister declared the construction of 10 important roads in Berhampur and nearby areas at Rs 52.17 crore. He explained that the project will improve connectivity and ease ...

Newdelhi:17/12/25:The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), Argentina, have signed a Work Plan 2025-2027 to strengthen bilateral cooperation in agricultural research, capacity building, and technology exchange. Dr. M.L. Jat, Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) and Director General, ICAR, and H.E. Mariano Augustin Caucino, Argentinian Ambassador to India, exchanged the ...

Newdelhi:17/12/25:Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), one of Ayurveda’s most revered Rasayana herbs, took centre stage at a high-level international side event held on the sidelines of the 2nd WHO Global Traditional Medicine Summit, 2025, reaffirming India’s leadership in advancing traditional medicine through evidence-based global dialogue. The session, titled “Ashwagandha: From Traditional Wisdom to Global Impact – Perspectives from Leading Global Experts,” was ...

Newdelhi:17/12/25:Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri JP Nadda, in the presence of Union Minister Shri Prataprao Jadhav inaugurated the Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi today. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO, also shared a special video message that was played during the inaugural session. The session marks the beginning of the ...

Ethiopia:17/12/25: The Prime Minister addressed the Joint Session of the Ethiopian Parliament today. This was a special honor accorded to the Prime Minister, who is on his first bilateral visit to Ethiopia.The Prime Minister began his address by extending greetings of friendship and goodwill from the people of India to the lawmakers of Ethiopia. He noted that it was a ...

Newdelhi:17/12/25:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has welcomed the Param Vir Gallery at Rashtrapati Bhavan and said that the portraits displayed there are a heartfelt tribute to the nation’s indomitable heroes and a mark of the country’s gratitude for their sacrifices. He said that these portraits honour those brave warriors who protected the motherland through their supreme sacrifice and laid ...

Bhubaneswar:15/12/25: In a major decision addressing a long-standing public demand, Odisha Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi has approved the establishment of a ‘Global Visa Application Center’ in Bhubaneswar. This move is poised to significantly simplify international travel formalities for the residents of the state. The proposed visa center is scheduled to operate from the Babasaheb Ambedkar Bus Terminal building ...

New Delhi:15/12/25: Bihar Minister Shri Nitin Nabin officially assumed charge as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Working President at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Monday, a day after his appointment by the BJP Parliamentary Board. Shri Nabin, who became one of the youngest leaders to hold a top national post in the party, was welcomed by several senior ...