Bhubaneswar: 16/7/23:A low-pressure area is likely to form over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal coasts on July 18 and wet spells of monsoon rainfall activity are likely to continue across Odisha with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted on Sunday. In its midday bulletin, the weather office has ...

Bhubaneswar:14/7/23: Odisha  Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today unveiled the ‘Mukhyamantri Sabhagruha’ (Chief Minister’s Conference Hall) programme in Western Odisha. Under the scheme, construction of about 2000 Kalyan Mandaps and local conference halls in western Odisha will be taken up. As many as 25 crores will be spent for projects. The Chief Minister said that this will make the social and ...

Bhubaneswar:13/7/23:As many as 181 new officers different departments today joined the state government. 104 Teacher Educators in School & Mass Education Dept, 62 Assistant Director Law in the Home Dept & 15 Asst Director Statistics in the Planning & Convergence Dept. An orientation programme was organized for the new recruits at the convention centre in Lok Seva Bhawan. Speaking on ...

Bhubaneswar:13/7/23: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday directed the concerned authorities to include the remaining nine panchayats of Chittarakonda block – Andrapalli, Panasput, Jodambo, Raligada, Papermetal, Badpada, Ghazalmamundi, Jantri, and Dhuliput – and Nakamamudi panchayats of Korukunda block in the SETU Yojana SETU (Socio-Economic Transformation and Upliftment scheme) to enable rapid transformation in the underprivileged areas under the bridge scheme. ...

Bhubaneswar:13/7/23: The Crop Insurance Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is being implemented in the State since Kharif-2016 to protect the farmers against potential losses to their crops due to uncertainties of weather. Under this crop insurance scheme, the final yield of farmer is insured along with losses due to prevented sowing, mid-season adversity, localised calamity and post-harvest damages. ...

Bhubaneswar:12/7/23: A special tree plantation drive was conducted to mark the celebration of ‘Azadi ki Amrit Mahotsav’ AKAM in honour of the country’s 75 years of Independence by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). As a part of this commemoration, 1000 nos. of tall healthy mostly indigenous seedlings were planted at each of the identified17 locations in a single day ...

Paradip:12/7/23:Paradip Port Authority, in its effort to provide State-of-the-art living facility to the employees, workers and residents of the locality, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NBCC (India) Ltd., a Navratna CPSE, for examination of structural stability of the buildings, improvement of residential quarters including beautification and landscaping works.The MoU was signed by Shri H.S.Rout, Chief Engineer on ...

Newdelhi:12/7/23:The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, has today released an amount of Rs. 7,532 crore to 22 State Governments for the respective State Disaster Response Funds (SDRF). The amount has been released as per the recommendations of the Ministry of Home Affairs.  State-wise details of the amount released are as under:                 ...

Bhubaneswar: 12/7/23:With the Odisha government planning to change the colour of the uniform of high school students from white-blue to white-hunter green, Opposition parties questioned the choice of colour and alleged that it was an attempt to influence the minds of students and parents . The BJP and the Congress alleged that hunter green resembles the colour of the ruling ...

Bhubaneswar:12/7/23: High school students across 8,860 government schools in Odisha will soon learn about computational thinking as a part of their curriculum, which will be rolled out in schools from August 2023 onwards. This is part of the Kaushali club curriculum for computational thinking and is under the aspirational program of the 5T High School Transformation scheme. The classes will be ...