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Sofia Firdous entered the race in lieu of her father, prominent Congressman Mohammed Moquim, who was disqualified because of a conviction for corruption.
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The BJP leader, however, later clarified that it was a slip of the tongue and asked the Opposition not to make an issue out of a nonexistent matter.
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Pandian, a close aide of Patnaik, challenged union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan to announce that the BJP leader would also take political 'sanyas' if the saffron party failed to come to power in the state.
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Naveen Patnaik has steered clear of ministers or politicians. He has moved on to bureaucrats
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The Srimandir Parikrama Prakalpa was officially unveiled by Patnaik in presence of Gajapati Maharaja of Puri Divyasingha Deb and representatives of about 90 temples, including the Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal, Mahakal Temple in Ujjain, Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Kashi, Jagannath temples in Dubai, Australia and UK, and thousands of devotees.
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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Bhubaneswar Metro Rail Corporation and the DMRC for the project, which will be completed in four years, they said.
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As part of the scheme, Baliguda, G Udayagiri and Phulbani assembly constituencies in Kandhamal district will get Rs 85.50 crore. In Angul district, Talcher, Pallahara, Chendipada, Athmallik and Angul assembly constituencies will get Rs 112.50 crore, and Rs 74.50 crore has been granted for Mohana and Paralakhemundi constituencies in Gajapati district, officials said.
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"Hockey is in our DNA. It's time for hockey to be more appreciated. I know plenty of other sports are vying for our country's attention but hockey deserves some shine," Patnaik, whose state is the official sponsor of both men's and women's Indian hockey teams, told
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The proposal was made during the Odisha business delegation’s visit to Japan, where Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik led discussions with major players in the Japanese IT and IT-enabled services sector.
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The BJD government was demanding continuance of the PMGKAY as the impact of the pandemic still hits the poor people who lost jobs and employment.
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Speaking at the IBM CIC inaugural function, Patnaik said most of the IT companies have set foot in Bhubaneswar and Odisha is now fast emerging as a technology resource hub.
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Patnaik left for Delhi during the day with a delegation for his second official foreign trip during his 22-year-long rule.
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Sunanda Patnaik was the daughter of legendary Odia poet Baikunthanath Patnaik and made her singing debut at the All India Radio, Cuttack in 1948, at the age of 14.
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PM Modi is scheduled to arrive at Baripada, the district headquarters of Mayurbhanj, on January 5 to lay the foundation stone of three national highway projects.
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced the state will establish a characterisation laboratory where entrepreneurs can test their semiconductor designs.
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The five focused sectors identified are agro and food processing especially fish processing, chemicals and petrochemicals, textiles, downstream and ancillary industries and ESDM (electronic system design and manufacturing) and IT/ITeS
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"Instead of desperately trying to take credit for the refinery, BJP and BJD must accept that contribution of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to the project is nil," Jena, a former Union minister, told reporters here.
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Patnaik, who had in August 2005 recommended to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh allocation of Talabira II mine to Hindalco, had on June 22, 2002 written to the then Coal and Mines Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for allotment of the Utkal B-1 mine to JSPL by cancelling an earlier allotment of the coal block to Talcher Mining.
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is in the line of fire in the coalgate scam. The letter written by him in 2002 to the then Minister of State in-charge of coal Ravi Shankar Prasad could cause embarrassment to the principal opposition party and weaken its campaign against the Prime Minister.
