Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding the projection of ruling BJD’s strategy to drop at least 33 per cent of incumbent MLAs/MPs in 2019 elections as a brand new strategy, the truth is it’s a mere redux of 2014....

Bhubaneswar: The Nabarangpur Lok Sabha (LS) Constituency in 2019 will give the excitement of an IPL 20-20 match as the pitch is all set to witness a nail-biting finish. The 2014 was an eye-opener as...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the big battle in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday made a significant political prognosis on the 2019 elections in the State. A confident looking PM said, “Odisha poll results will surprise...

Parlakhemundi/Umerkote: Hitting out at Naveen Patnaik-led BJD Government frontally, the BJP President Amit Shah on Monday exhorted voters to uproot the ‘brazenly corrupt’ BJD government and bring BJP government in the State. After paying respects...

Bhawanipatna: Launching a razor-sharp attack on BJD, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday termed the Naveen Patnaik led BJD government an ‘annex’ to the ‘Congress culture’. Beginning his address here today with “Apana mane Kemiti Acchanti”...

Bhubaneswar: How politics is unpredictable could well be ascertained from the high voltage contest now on the offing in the Koraput Lok Sabha (LS) constituency. A contest that was on predictable lines, has been made...

Bhubaneswar: Politicians always love to win the ballot boxes by bus than by sweating it out on the dusty roads. In a first, BJD has made the Odisha election campaign reminiscent of the ‘delight buses’...

Sundergarh/Sonepur: Reminiscing the famous quote ‘Andhera chatega, Suraj niklega, Kamal khilega’  made by former PM and BJP patriarch Atal Behari Vajpayee in Mumbai in late 80s, PM Modi during his visit to Odisha on Saturday...

Nabarangpur: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday asserted that farmers are his government’s top priority. He again assured the 25 lakh left-off farmers that his government will transfer Rs 10,000 under KALIA scheme in one...

Bhubaneswar: Politics is all about bending, (arm)twisting, somersaults and a jog for power. The physical work-out video of CM Naveen Patnaik has all the elements of politics. While the message of the ‘work-out’ video is...

Bhubaneswar: In poverty stricken part of Odisha, a whopping 46 per cent netas who are going to contest polls in first phase are crorepatis. The irony is phase-1 elections are going to take place in...

Bhubaneswar: Family rocks in politics. But Elections 2019 canvas in Odisha shows how politics has rocked the families of political leaders instead. Many political families are split wide open. Though it is widely known that...

Bhubaneswar: Aska, the sugar town of Odisha and the second largest city in Ganjam district, had been once a bastion of communists. For which the ‘sweet’ hub has earned the epithet of ‘Red land’ in...

Kendrapara: With the filing of nominations on Monday by both Bijoy Mahapatra and Bed Prakash Agarwala, the fight in Patkura in 2019 elections will be between two old war horses. Bijoy, who dramatically rejoined BJP...

Bhubaneswar: Is anti-incumbency in Odisha’s air? Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, in an interview  to NDTV aired last evening, admitted so unwittingly. “Since this is for the fifth time we are seeking mandate, we have to...

Bhubaneswar: Just before the end of campaigning for the first phase polls, the ruling Biju Janata Dal Tuesday released its manifesto. Farmers and women seem to be the party’s bread and butter this elections. Releasing...

Bolangir: The western Odisha district of Bolangir, known for intense temperatures in summer, will witness an intense fight between BJD and BJP in the 2019 polls on April 18,  though presence of Congress in the...

Bhubaneswar: Brisk polling was recorded in Odisha on Thursday with around 70 per cent of the over 60 lakh electorate casting their votes in four Lok Sabha and 28 Assembly constituencies, preliminary data by Chief Electoral...

Keonjhar: After completion of the first phase polls in Odisha, BJP President Amit Shah in his first poll address at Keonjhar in Odisha was more aggressive and gave a war cry to overthrow the ‘nikkama’...

Bhubaneswar: Political trade winds in Rourkela turned tailwind for the BJP, when veteran leader and former steel city BJP MLA Dilip Ray fanned out the winds of grace for the BJP. Ray quit the BJP...