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The Union Council of Ministers was expanded on Tuesday with the induction of 19 new Ministers of State. Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State with Independent Charge of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been elevated as Cabinet…

Minister of Urban Development, M. Venkaiah Naidu asked the first batch of 20 cities selected in the first round of competition to launch respective smart city projects by 25th of June this year marking the one year of launch of the Mission…

Taking a serious note of complaints about lack of uniformity in operations and misbehaviour by the staff of toll plazas, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a “Code of Conduct” for the Toll Plaza operators. NHAI…

The strategies of the Government in the Health Sector are presently guided by the National Health Policy 2002. The principal objectives of NHP-2002 inter alia includes achieving an acceptable standard of good health amongst the general…

By Rajeev Lochan Rathan: The Panchayat Raj Institution (PRI) members have accused the administration in Gajapati district of failure in providing relief to cyclone victims. The administration should have adopted calamity-hit blocks for…

The Odisha Government has evacuated around 70,000 people so far from the areas that are likely to be hit by Cyclone Hudhud. Maximum number of 30,000 people were shifted from Gajapati district, while 13,282 people were moved to safe location…

October 2013 was a critical month for the farmers of Odisha. Cyclone Phailin and subsequently heavy flood devastated the crops in 18 districts. More than 12 lakh hectares of area was affected, of which 7.82 lakh ha of area sustained more…

Besides funding from NABARD for construction of bridges, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India is also providing funds for construction of rural bridges on PMGSY roads, permissible under the guidelines of the scheme. Bridges…