Bhubaneswar: With the final numbers being out, the voter turnout in the first phase of 2019 polls in Odisha was a slice less than the 2014 turnout. According to the data released by Chief Electoral...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha politics  witnessed a mutagenic turn of events on Saturday, when CM Naveen Patnaik for the first time in last 19-years made lack of CM candidate of an opposition party a big poll issue...

Rourkela: Hours before Election Commission barred from campaigning for 72 hours from 6 AM tomorrow, Firebrand BJP leader and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Monday castigated the Naveen Patnaik led BJD government as a dispensation...

Bhubaneswar: Will Bargarh, which has earned the epithet of Odisha’s Vidharbha owing to consecutive droughts and resultant large-scale farmer suicides for last few years, witness a  ‘green’ or ‘saffron ‘ revolution in the 2019 polls?...

Sambalpur: In his first poll address post first phase polls in Odisha, an aggressive Prime Minister Narendra Modi fired a salvo at CM Naveen Patnaik. He was addressing the Vijay Sankalp Samabesh of the BJP...

Bhubaneswar: For the former MP and senior BJP leader Kharbela Swain, the battle for Kandhamal in 2019 will be an uphill one, though he is known as a doughty fighter. Interestingly, the forename ‘Mahamegha Bahan...

Bhubaneswar: Seemingly buoyed by the turnout and feedbacks in the first phase polls in Odisha, the campaign style of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has apparently gone for a  paradigm change in the State now. The...

Bhubaneswar: With voting for the second phase polls in Odisha having ended at 5 PM and around 64 per cent polling was recorded, the turnout in the constituencies went to polls in this phase indicate...

Bhubaneswar: As human errors played havoc in around six booths in three Lok Sabha(LS) constituencies during the second phase polling in Odisha, the total voter turnout witnessed in the State till 5 PM was around...

Bhubaneswar:  With Sambalpur, the nervecentre of Western Odisha, going to polls on Tuesday, what keeps one’s eye peeled for is will BJP dig out a win after losing narrowly to BJD in 2014? As it...

Bhubaneswar: As the mine-rich Keonjhar will vote coming Tuesday, mining a win from the Lok Sabha (LS) seat for the BJP and Congress looks an uphill task. While BJP has placed its faith on old...

Bhubaneswar:  With BJP charioting  its well conversant and nuanced spokesperson Sambit Patra to chug the saffron juggernaut in Puri, he is pulling all stops  to trump BJD’s three time MP Pinaki Mishra.  As Puri has...

Bhubaneswar: The battle for Cuttack in 2019 has an interesting aside. The clash here will be between a top cop and politicians, when the usual frame in public mind space is the kowtowing nature of...

Bhubaneswar: In the political chessboard, BJP drew its first blood when post the announcement of the name of Aparajita Sarangi from Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha (LS) seat, the ruling BJD has replaced its six-time MP from...

Bhubaneswar: What could be termed as a big blot on our democracy, political parties in Odisha have made the 2019 polls not only bloodier, but pumped in large scale black money and liquor to influence...

Kendrapara/Balasore: On a day when Odisha is voting in six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly Constituencies, PM Narendra Modi seemed all brimming with confidence as addressing a Vijay Sankalp Samavesh in Kendrapara, he virtually foretold...

Bhubaneswar: Voter apathy in Bhubaneswar to fore again, when the State in third phase polls witnessed around 61 per cent turnout. The Capital city has recorded a poor voter turnout of around 41 per cent...

Bhubaneswar: The third phase polls in Odisha covering six Lok Sabha (LS) and 42 Assembly Constituencies (AC) passed of peacefully today, though some stray incidents of attacks were reported from some places in Puri LS...

Bhubaneswar: When the political mercury seems shooting up every day with the State drawing towards the final phase of polls on coming Monday (April 29), the atmospheric mercury looks all set to give a double...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is all set to see a stormy May!  Models by Indian National Centre of Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) did suggest of the cyclonic storm system Fani drifting along the Odisha coast and would...