News Bulletin

TNI Bureau: After being halted for more than a year, The Odisha government resumed land acquisition for the proposed Posco steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday amid clashes between police and the protesters. In the past, the…

TNI Bureau: As announced on the Republic Day, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the Re. 1 per kg rice scheme in a state level function held in Malkangiri today. The scheme, for which BJD faced criticism from the economists and…

TNI Bureau: A special monitoring cell has been set up in the Pachayatiraj department of Odisha to check the activities of the Block Development Officers (BDO) in their respective blocks of the state. The initiative was taken after…

TNI Bureau: In a major relief to the government contractual workers in the state, the Cabinet approved to regularise all contractual workers completing 6 years in service. Also the concerned contractual employees who are below the age of 45…

TNI Bureau: The State-Government run Odisha State Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd’s (Omfed) hiked milk price by Rs 2 per litre, which will come into effect from February 4. The enhanced price will put an extra burden on the…

TNI Bureau: The Miners in Odisha need to be little more cautious as the Shah Commission, which is probing the illegal mining scam, is visiting the state on February 22. The panel headed by Justice MB Shah will quiz the miners and take state…

TNI Brueau: The modernizing initiatives taken up by the state government can be said to have been at crossroads.  The same can very well be felt from this incident. The Centre for Modernizing Government Initiatives (CMGI) takes care of…

TNI Bureau: Dhamara Port in Bhadrak district will invest Rs 10,000 crore for its second phase expansion. The construction work is likely to start within two years and complete in five years. The decision for investment was taken after port…

TNI Bureau: The budget session of Odisha assembly will commence from February 14. The session will run for 30 days in two phases. The state budget will be presented on February 19. The first phase of the session will start with the…

By Himanshu Guru, Balangir: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today visited Balangir to lay foundation stone of the 125 bedded M.C.H. centre in the H.Q. Hospital, the piped water supply at Gandhi Nagar and the overhead tank near circuit house…