Policy & Politics

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to enforce fiscal discipline, the Odisha government has introduced stringent guidelines to regulate the outsourcing of manpower across administrative departments. A communication from Principal Secretary of...

Bhubaneswar: Days after effecting a major reshuffle in IAS cadre, the Odisha government has transferred 29 senior and mid-level Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officers, assigning new responsibilities across various departments...

Bhubaneswar: In a major administrative reshuffle, the Forest, Environment & Climate Change Department of Odisha has transferred 34 Deputy Conservators of Forests (Dy.CFs) with immediate effect. As per a notification...

Bhubaneswar: Two issues have put the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in a tight spot. It’s strategy to deal with the recent crimes against women in Odisha on the one hand...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government carried out another major reshuffle among key IAS officers and appointed many young officers, who returned from training, as sub-collectors in various districts. The reshuffle comes...

Chequers, United Kingdom: In a major diplomatic and economic breakthrough, India and the United Kingdom on Wednesday signed a landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA), marking the most comprehensive bilateral trade...

Bhubaneswar: Senior IAS officer Roopa Roshan Sahoo on Wednesday took charge as Secretary to Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati. The 2006-batch officer is the first woman IAS officer to be...

Patna: The special intensive revision (SIR) process of Bihar’s voter list has failed to impress the Opposition parties. So much so that RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, leader of Opposition in...

Bhubaneswar: Congress has urged Biju Janata Dal (BJD) to move a no-confidence motion against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Odisha, accusing it of having failed to address the...

New Delhi: A political controversy has erupted over Samajwadi Party’s Lok Sabha MP Dimple Yadav. More precisely, over the attire of SP chief and former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s...