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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday clarified its last year order on police reforms and said officers who have a minimum of six months tenure left in service shall be considered for the post of director general of police (DGP). A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the recommendation for post of DGP […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: After months of speculations, senior leader and former BJD Minister Damodar Rout today joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the party headquarters in New Delhi. Rout, who was expelled from the BJD in September last year after he brought a slew of corruption allegations against the ruling-BJD government in Odisha, joined the […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after joining BJP, senior leader Damodar Rout today expressed confidence that under the BJP government, people of Odisha will be relieved of corruption and ill-governance which has been prevalent under the present Naveen-led government. “While the people of the State are struggling with myriad issues from farmer suicides, corruption, and insecurity of […]

New Delhi: Three personalities with exceptional achievements from Odisha – D Prakash Rao, Daitari Naik and Kamala Pujari received the coveted Padma Shri from the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind at 2019 Civil Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. While Rao bagged the award for providing affordable education to slum children, Naik and Pujari […]

Christchurch: Five Indians were among the 50 people killed by a white supremacist, who opened fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, in the worst attack on Muslims in New Zealand, the Indian High Commission said Sunday. The attacker, identified by authorities as Australia-born Brenton Tarrant, 28, reportedly targeted immigrants during Friday prayers. Witnesses […]

Bhubaneswar: BJD has played its ace card well. The party has urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to contest from Western Odisha, and a ‘serious’ looking CM readily said he is considering the proposal ‘very seriously’. BJD made this announcement a grandstanding event today and the Naveen Niwas was chock-a-block with party workers. BJD supremo and […]

Bhubaneswar: A flash protest sparked off at the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar today after the patients and their attendants failed to avail registration tickets to visit doctors of various departments at the hospital. Reason, the staff at the computerised central registration counter denied them tickets and stopped working alleging non-payment of salary for the last […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid unabated exodus from Party, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today announced names of the party candidates for the first two phases of 2019 general polls in Odisha. In the first phase, Odisha will go to polls for four Lok Sabha and 28 Assembly seats on April 11 while elections will be there for […]

Bhubaneswar: After days of speculations, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) has finally declared its 1st phase list of candidates for the upcoming general elections in Odisha. Names of candidates for 6 Lok Sabha and 36 Assembly segments of the State were released by the party through a notification late Monday night, hours after the […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid rise in resentment over non-allotment of tickets to aspirants and continous exodus of leaders from the BJD, it seems the party president Naveen Patnaik will have a rough path ahead in pacifying the rising dissidence within the party. Adding to the exodus, Kandhamal MP Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh and Daspalla MLA Purna Chandra Nayak […]

Bhubaneswar: Putting all speculations to rest, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today announced candidates for 184 Lok Sabha seats including 10 from Odisha. The saffron party has fielded its national vice-president, Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda from Kendrapara while Aparajita Sarangi will contest from Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency. As per the first list of candidates announced today, […]

Bhubaneswar: People of Odisha today celebrated the festival of colour ‘Holi’ with great fervour and festive spirit. Also known as “Dola Purnima” or “Basant Utsav” in Odisha, Holi is one of the major festivals. Residents of the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Berhampur and various other places observed the festival with fun […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Putting an end to speculations over Prime Minister Narendra Modi contesting from Puri Lok Sabha constituency in the upcoming general polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday night announced party national spokesperson Sambit Patra as its candidate for the Puri parliamentary constituency. Moments after the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting concluded late […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government today directed all educational institutions to begin morning classes from April 2 as a preventive measure against possible heat wave situation in the State. The School and Mass Education (S&ME) department, in a letter to all educational boards, has directed the concerned authorities to take precautionary and preparatory measures in all educational […]

Nayagarh: Virtually setting an aggressive tone for BJD’s line of campaigning in the 2019 polls, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today claimed that BJD will make a clean sweep of all 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha in 2019 elections. Patnaik also asserted that BJD will play a key role in next government formation at Centre. […]