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Odisha Sports & Youth Services Minister Tusharkanti Behera today informed the Assembly that a new Sports Policy is on the draft stage and will be implemented soon as at present there is no Sports Policy in the State.

In a bid to make Odisha’s educated youth mass self-reliant, State Government has been implementing a number of industrial policies while industries are being set up for creating employment opportunities in the localities.

Replying to question posed on July 2 by Congress Legislature Party Leader Narasingha Mishra and Dhamnagar (BJP) MLA Bishnu Charan Sethi during the ongoing Odisha Assembly Budget Session, ST & SC Development Minister apprised the House…

The matter came to the fore when health check-up of the students was being carried out under Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) after their return to the hostels from summer vacation. Preliminary reports suggested that four schoolgirls…

The newly appointed ministers are Ashok Coudhary, Shyam Rajak, Narendra Narayan Yadav, Sanjay Jha, Ramsewak Singh, Lakshmeshwar Rai Neeraj Kumar and Bima Bharti. Bima Bharti is only woman among the new ministers.

West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday assured MPs of the saffron party elected from the state that not just two, but more will be inducted in the list of ministers of the central government in future.

Union Minister of State and Balasore MP Pratap Chandra Sarangi has been entrusted with Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises & Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has retained…

Cabinet Ministers Ranendra Pratap Swain, Bikram Keshari Arukha, Prafulla Mallick, Niranjan Pujari, Padmanav Behera, Pratap Jena, Arun Sahu, Sudam Marndi, Susanta Singh, Naba Kishore Das and Tukuni Sahu also took oath today.

Soon after the passing away of Patkura MLA and former minister Bed Prakash Agrawalla, several political leaders expressed their condolence and reminisced of their past memories with him. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik described him as an…

"Apart from choosing a Chief Minister from the cadre, we also had to send a signal to the mining regions, which have been severely impact by the mining ban, that we are serious about their concerns. We hope that this outreach will convince…