Odisha Assembly

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will provide piped water supply to all rural households by 2024-25, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Minister Pratap Jena informed the Assembly on Tuesday. The minister said this in reply to questions by…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly was adjourned till 3 pm on Monday after opposition Congress members created a ruckus in the House over alleged distress sale of paddy. As soon as the House assembled, Speaker Surya Narayan Patro announced…

Bhubaneswar: An "inadvertent error" was made regarding the death of Mahatma Gandhi in a recent government booklet, School and Mass Education Minister Samir Dash told the Assembly on Saturday. “There was no intention to mislead the people…

Bhubaneswar: The Congress on Friday came down heavily on the Odisha government for providing wrong information on the death of Mahatma Gandhi in its two-page booklet. The School and Mass Education Department had published a two-page…

Bhubaneswar: Congress criticised Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for being absent in the Assembly during a discussion on the death of Haridaspur PEO Smitarani Biswal on Thursday. During the discussion, the leader of the Congress Legislature…

Bhubaneswar: The death of Haridaspur panchayat extension officer (PEO), Smitarani Biswal, was due to asphyxiation, Minister of State for Home, Dibya Shankar Mishra informed the Odisha Assembly on Thursday. “According to the post-mortem…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly was adjourned on Thursday following an uproar by Congress and BJP members. The Opposition MLAs demanded a discussion on the death of Haridaspur PEO Smitarani Biswal. As soon as the House session began,…

Bhubaneswar: Finance minister Niranjan Pujari presented the supplementary budget in the Odisha Assembly on Wednesday amid uproar by the opposition. The total allocation in the supplementary budget is Rs 8126.32 crore. The Finance Minister…

Bhubaneswar: Before the storm and the adjournment, the winter session of the Odisha assembly saw Congress MLA Taraprasad Bahinipati making a snide remark at Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. As soon as Naveen arrived in the house, Bahinipati…

Bhubaneswar: Agriculture minister Arun Kumar Sahu on Thursday informed the Odisha Assembly that 45,965 beneficiaries of the KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) scheme were ineligible. The minister, in a…