Mamata Mahanta, who was elected to the Upper House of the Parliament from Odisha on a BJD ticket in March 2020, in her resignation letter said there was “no requirement for her services” as well as her community in the BJD
Utkal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ltd and the Hotel & Restaurant Association of Odisha expressed happiness for the budgetary announcement on priority to the state’s tourism sector
The sports and youth services department in a notification on July 19 said that the ‘Biju Patnaik Sports Award’ that was instituted in 2001-02 has been renamed as ‘Odisha Rajya Krida Samman’
Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi had last week directed collectors of all districts to “free government land from encroachments across the state”