Mohammed Ishtiyaque

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday inaugurated the Bomikhal road overbridge which connects Rasulgarh with Cuttack Road and Sahid Nagar.

BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced names of party candidates for two Lok Sabha and seven Assembly constituencies of Odisha. Announcing this at Naveen Niwas today, the BJD president informed media, “Mahesh Sahu, MLA of Pallahara will be our local candidate from the Dhenkanal parliamentary seat.” He added, “Miss Chandrani Murmu, the young technocrat from Keonjhar, will be our Lok Sabha candidate from Keonjhar parliamentary seat.”

A day (April 16) after a video of Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s spat with the flying squad of Election Commission of India (ECI) at Sambalpur went viral on social media and received adverse comments from viewers, today a video was released that exhibits how BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik fully cooperated with the ECI flying squad at Rourkela on the very day (yesterday).

Telecommunication and banking facilities, which had faced a major setback after the landfall of cyclone FANI in Odisha, has almost resumed in Bhubaneswar, said secretary of Information and Public Relation, Sanjay Singh on Wednesday.

In the aftermath of severe cyclonic storm FANI that wreacked havoc on Odisha and has hit hard on the economy of the State, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today launched an official web portal rebuild.odisha.gov.in for collecting public donations for various projects.

After leading his party to a thumping victory of the fifth time, Naveen Patnaik was elected as the leader of the Biju Janata Dal's legislature party at a meeting here on Sunday. Newly-elected legislators of BJD unanimously elected party president Patnaik as their leader, paving the way for his swearing-in as the fifth time Chief Minister of the State.