Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Wednesday increased the compensation amount from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 6 lakh for fatalities caused because of conflicts between humans and wild animals, a notification from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) stated. The state government hiked ex-gratia for those who...
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has come up with a standard operating procedure (SOP) to guarantee the effective execution of the summer vacation homework plan for school students. According to an official statement from the Department of School and Mass Education, a summer holiday homework programme...
Bhubaneswar: Sambalpur Collector Ananya Das and Balangir Collector Chanchal Rana tied the nuptial knot Monday at a hotel in Guwahati. In an intimate ceremony, the couple got married in the presence of family members, relatives, and close friends. Notably, Ananya Das and Chanchal Rana got...
New Delhi: When Tim Cook arrived in India earlier this month to open Apple's first physical store in the country, he was welcomed like a hero, media reports said. Cook's visit, the latest by a top global executive, exemplifies the rising tide of interest that...
Bhubaneswar: President, Vedanta and former CMD NALCO TK Chand said Odisha can achieve one- trillion dollar size of economy if there will be a transformational change in our approach to achieve a mega-scale of growth. Addressing a road show on metal and downstream here Friday...
Ganjam: As many as 6,000 villagers who live in 38 forest and unsurveyed villages in Odisha’s Ganjam district will be benefited as their villages have been granted revenue status under the Forest Right Act and Orissa Survey and Settlement Act, said a source. These 38...
Bhawanipatna: A woman and her three sons were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Additional District Judge (ADJ) of Dharmagarh in Kalahandi district for killing a peon posted at Revenue Inspector (RI) office at Atigaon over a land dispute in 2018. The ADJ has also...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government proposed Monday an ordinance for the amendment to the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes (OSCBC) Act, 1993 for inclusion of 22 castes/communities, which have been classified as OBCs by the Centre. Currently, all the 22 castes/communities have been categorised as...
Gundlupet: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Monday said the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka was all about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's development politics versus Congress' appeasement politics, and defended the state BJP government's decision to scrap the four per cent reservation for Muslims. He...
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