New Delhi: The Government announced its decision making the Aadhaar card mandatory for opening bank accounts and conducting financial transactions of Rs 50,000 and above. Moreover, existing bank account holders have been asked to submit their Aadhaar cards issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to banks by December 31 this year, failing…
Bhubaneswar: Monsoon from the South-west direction is triggering almost into entire Odisha. Rainfalls in many areas even as heavy rains are likely to lash the state due to a low pressure. All the districts of the state have been covered by southwest monsoon except some parts of Bargrh, Jharsuguda and Sundergarh, the meteorological centre said….
Bhubaneswar: The fastest growing chain of Hospital in Eastern India, AMRI Hospitals has launched the Media privileged cards for the working media professionals of Bhubaneswar on the eve of Raja Festival. Shri Surendra Kumar, Secretary, Information & Public Relations, Govt. Of Odisha launched the new Initiative of AMRI Hospitals and distributed the Cards to the…
Bhubaneswar: The Govt of Odisha will soon approach the Centre to identify Paika revolt of Odisha in 1817 as the first War of Independence of India instead of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. To support the claim, the Odisha State Archives has prepared a 700-page book ‘The Paika Rebellion A Documentary Study’ which promises to…
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP admonished party’s senior leader Bijoy Mohapatra for audaciously questioning the petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Bijoy wrote a letter to the Union minister on May 31 highlighting how Paradip refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) failed to generate enough jobs for the locals in contrast to promises made by Dharmendra. “…the dreams…
Bhubaneswar: On 2 June 2017 the state government bring in to transfer the controversial proposed POSCO land near Paradip, which had been acquired for South Korean steel giant Posco, to Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel which has proposed to set up a 10 mtpa steel project at the site. The high level clearance authority (HLCA) chaired…
BHUBANESWAR: On Saturday, the Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested a city hotel owner Ganesh Prasad Sahoo for instigating youths to unload 20 milch cows from a train and attack the railway staff and caretakers of cows on May 24. Sahoo is the owner of Ashirvad Hotel at Cuttack Road and also heads the Old Station…
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday asked Raman Singh, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh to certify free flow of water in the Mahanadi River by opening the gates of Kalma barrage which was closed by the neighboring state lately. By objecting the one-sided decision of the government of Chhattisgarh to stop flow in the inter-state…
BHUBANESWAR: A woman was hanged to death on suspicion of being a child-lifter in Mayurbhanj district on Saturday morning. The incident took place in Domuhanivillage under Bangiriposi Police perimeter. Police said the 40 year old woman was first seen by the villagers on Friday night. They questioned her about where she had arrived from and…
BHUBANESWAR: Jailer of the circle jail in Sambalpur, Sushanta Rout put in trouble after the police seized Rs 16.72 lakh in cash from his office chamber on Sunday. The clampdown was part of concurrent raids at 12 prisons across the state. “Our officers found Rs 16.72 lakh cash in the cupboard of his chamber in the…