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One can also contest in elections without a ticket. No party is required in this case as a contestant can fight the election as an Independent candidate. 

A leading Odia daily did the utterly laughable by choosing to omit the name of the BJD in the list of recipients of the electoral bond provided in an agency copy!

Hard to believe it certainly is. But that is precisely what the Twin City Commissionerate of Police would like you to believe...

So, what led to a sudden turnaround just weeks ahead of the elections? If sources are to be trusted, multiple ground surveys commissioned by the party suggested that the projection of Mr. Pandian as the possible ‘successor’ to Naveen Patnaik is not going down well with the electorate.

The choice of candidates in Puri, Cuttack and Kendrapara too must have caused greater celebration in the BJP camp than among the BJD cadres in these constituencies.

Financial wellness programmes play vital role in promoting the overall well-being and productivity of salaried individuals.

If the power brokers had their way, this perhaps would have been the first instance in independent India when a ruling party would have gone into an election in alliance, formed weeks before the election...

Training and Development (T&D) is a vital Organisation Development (OD) intervention. Without T&D, the human resources in an organisation will become irrelevant and obsolete.

The Chit Fund investigation will complete 10 years by the time Odisha goes to polls and the wait for duped investors continues.

Alliance with BJD will stall Odisha's aspiration for a BJP government

Parents prefer to take children to malls and not to public parks. A culture that is keeping kids from exercising their right to play seems to be spreading.

By and large, MSP arrangement leading to Government purchase has been implemented in varying degrees among states and it has been mostly limited to rice and wheat.

Farmers know that they need healthy land and reliable weather patterns to sustain their livelihoods; and that temperatures are rising and the growing seasons are shifting. Natural disasters are becoming a regular calendar phenomenon and more frequent and unmanageably severe.

Notwithstanding the lofty aims of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (BJNY) parroted by Mr. Gandhi and his followers, the inspirations behind undertaking this arduous political march from the east of India (Manipur) to the west (Maharashtra) are many.

Vaishnaw had never been in parliament when he was named as the BJP candidate in 2019 despite the party lacking the numbers in the state assembly.