New Delhi, 19/5: The Reserve Bank on Friday approved Rs 87,416 crore dividend payout to the central government for 2022-23, nearly triple of what it paid in the previous year. The dividend payout was Rs 30,307 crore for accounting year 2021-22. The decision was taken at the 602nd meeting of the Central…
New Delhi, 19/5: Kiren Rijiju on Friday assumed charge as Earth Sciences Minister and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving him an opportunity to handle various portfolios. Rijiju, who was removed as Law Minister on Thursday, refused to answer questions about his previous ministry contending that they were no longer relevant and…
New Delhi, 19/5: The Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Friday administered the oath of office to Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and senior advocate Kalpathy Venkataraman Viswanathan as Supreme Court judges. The Centre had yesterday cleared the Collegium’s proposal to elevate Andhra Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Mishra and senior advocate as top…
Chilika, 19/5: A passenger bus overturned near Naval Outpost, Balugaon in Khordha district late last night. According to the information, the bus named Namaskar , which was carrying passengers from Bhubaneswar to Aska, overturned near Brajarajpur village near Naval Outpost at around 2 am yesterday. There were around 80 passengers in the bus. Upon…
Bhubaneswar, ,18/5:Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today rolled out the State Dashboard, a data and analytics-powered platform which will streamline performance monitoring of government schemes, aiding data-driven decision making. The State Dashboard consists of three critical components – CM Dashboard, Department Dashboard and Administrative Action Monitoring Portal. The application appraises the performance of different…
New Delhi, 18/5:The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the decision of the West Bengal government to ban screening of the film The Kerala Story in the State. [Qurban Ali vs Central Board of Film Certification and Anr.] A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB…
Bhubaneswar, 18/5: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today suggested several new projects for Odisha including two new Vandey Bharat Trains during the launching of Vandey Bharat Express from Puri to Kolkata, and sought the support of the Prime Minister for early implementation of the same. Praising the Prime Minister for launching of several railway…
Mumbai, 18/5: In a big development, Media firm New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV), now owned by Adani group, on Thursday said it plans to launch nine news channels in different Indian languages in phases. The board of the company, at its meeting held on Thursday, has “approved a proposal to seek the permission of…
New Delhi, 18/5: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal has been appointed as the Minister for Law and Justice and Kiren Rijiju has been moved to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, a press communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on May 18. The communique said the President of India, as advised…
Bhubaneswar, 18/5: Result of HSC or Class 10th or Matric final exam has been announced. Board of secondary Education Odisha has announced BSE Odisha 10th or HSC Result 2023 today on bseodisha.ac.in. Results were formally declared by Education Minister Pramila Malik and soon after that, the link to check marks online was made active. …
