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: 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…
“On June 21, the world will come together to mark the third Yoga Day. Let us all make this occasion a memorable one,” Narendra Modi tweeted on Thursday. 21st June is World Yoga Day and as the day is approaching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took to twitter to urge everyone to do yoga. With an…
Using data from NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have identified bright areas in caverns near the Moon’s south pole which are cold enough to have frost present on the surface. The new evidence comes from an analysis that combined surface temperatures with information about how much light is reflected off the moon’s surface. “We found that the coldest…
New Delhi: A 23-year- old woman was shot dead at Shatabdi Rail Vihar residential society inSector 62 of Noida on Wednesday morning. The woman identified as Anjali Rathour was working as a trainee engineer with a mobile manufacturing company in Sector 64 of Noida. Anjali hailed from Jagadhri near Yamuna Nagar in Haryana.She graduated from Lovely…
Bhubaneswar: AMRI Asian Cancer Institute, AMRI Hospitals, Bhubaneswar, observed World No Tabacco Day 2017. Over the last one year, AMRI Asian Cancer Institute has been providing latest cancer care services to the people of Odisha. Around 20 Cancer disease survivors shared their experiences in the awareness event by AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar. Tobacco in various forms…
BHUBANESWAR: Foreign liquor whether made in India or not will cost more in Odisha as VAT on it has been enhanced from 20 percent to 35 percent. The Odisha Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2017 which was passed in the assembly proposed increase in VAT on foreign liquor and five other items as these are…