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New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Water Resources (Jal Shakti) Rattan Lal Kataria on Thursday informed the Lok Sabha that 19 rivers in Odisha are polluted. The minister, in a written reply to a question by BJP leader Jual Oram, said…

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that the Centre has provided Rs 4679.89 crore financial assistance to Odisha for repair and reconstruction of the damaged infrastructure rendered…

New Delhi: The much-talked-about death of Haridaspur Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO) Smitarani Biswal reverberated in Parliament on Friday with Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka demanding a CBI probe into it. Raising the issue during the Zero…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) will be reconstituted, the party's state unit president, Niranjan Patnaik, said on Thursday. Niranjan informed that apart from the PCC, all its sub-committees will also be…

New Delhi: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, has left his party deeply embarrassed by appearing to suggest that Jammu and Kashmir was not an internal matter for India. The Congress leader’s self-goal came…

The Triple Talaq Bill was finally passed in the Lok Sabha on Thursday despite the Opposition's uproar over sending it to a Standing Committee, reported The Quint. Only eight members voted against the Bill while 303 voted in its favour. The…

New Delhi: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday opposed the decision of the Centre to form a single inter-state river water disputes tribunal. Raising the issue in Lok Sabha, BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab said although the issue of water…

The government on Thursday introduced a Bill in Lok Sabha to repeal 58 old laws, which Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said were a source of inconvenience and trouble for people. Prasad said the Narendra Modi government has already…

New Delhi: The government is likely to table the Bill to ban Triple Talaq for discussion and passage in Lok Sabha on Thursday. The proposed law criminalises instant divorce by Muslim men and seeks jail term for the guilty. The ruling BJP…

New Delhi:  Union Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur on Monday made it clear that the Centre has no proposal for granting Special Category Status to Odisha. Replying to a question by the BJD MP of…