Bhubaneswar: Putting an end to all speculations, former Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) Prakash Mishra joined the BJP at a ‘Mishrana Parba’ here on Sunday in presence of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other senior leaders of the party. Apart from Mishra, ex-Congress MLA from Jaleswar Debi Prasanna Chand and former BJD legislator Brundaban […]
Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced candidates for two Lok Sabha and nine Assembly seats in Odisha today. As per the list, Kharavela Swain, who rejoined the party on Monday, will contest from the Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat, while Prakash Mishra will fight from the Cuttack parliamentary constituency. Swain, who was elected to the Lok […]
Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today fielded senior advocate Pitambar Acharya as its candidate from Hinjili Assembly constituency, CM Naveen Patnaik’s home turf. “In an interview to an English paper one year back, I had stated that CM will taste defeat from Hinjili and this time it is going to be true. Fearing defeat, […]
Bhubaneswar: That the Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was interrogated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on November 25, 2017, in connection with a coal block allocation case, came to fore just a few days ahead of the general elections and a petition was filed on Monday over the inordinate delay in the case. […]
Puri: Puri District Collector-cum-District Election Officer on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to BJP’s Puri Lok Sabha candidate Sambit Patra for allegedly violating the model code of conduct (MCC) by taking out a campaign rally without obtaining necessary permission from competent authority. Patra had allegedly taken out a political rally from Uttara to Puri without […]
Bhubaneswar: Following a meeting on the heat wave preparedness, the office of the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) observed that there has been an increase in maximum temperature in most of the stations in Odisha. As per the latest forecast of the Regional Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar, there will be no large change in maximum temperature […]
Bhubaneswar: In what could boost the poll prospects of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha, senior leader Bijoy Mohapatra who had resigned from BJP on November 30 last year, made a comeback to the party today. The development took place after BJP Vice-President Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda and State party In-charge Arun Singh met Mohapatra at […]
Koraput: Ahead of the crucial elections in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today kicked off party’s poll campaign in the State by addressing a mega public meeting at Jeypore in Koraput district. Modi launched scathing attacks both on Congress and the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for keeping Odisha backward for decades. “People of Odisha […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha minister and BJD’s Ghasipura Assembly candidate Badri Narayan Patra is likely to see a tough fight in the 2019 elections, as OPCC chief Niranjan Patnaik has reportedly accepted his challenge to contest from Ghasipura. Patnaik said that he will fight from Ghasipura if All India Congress Committee (AICC) gives a go ahead. Taking […]
Jharsuguda: Direct flight services resumed from Veer Surendra Sai Airport in Jharsuguda with the arrival of two planes of budget carrier SpiceJet at the airport this afternoon. The two planes were welcomed with the water canon salute at the airport. Later the first commercial flight (189-seater) took off from Jharsuguda airport to New Delhi whereas […]
Bhubaneswar: Trouble seems to be far from over for the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) as senior leaders continue to quit party with elections just round the corner. After Bhadrak MP Arjun Sethi, another senior leader Raghunath Mohanty today resigned from the primary membership of BJD. Earlier, Mohanty had resigned as the chairman of the […]
Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced candidates for three Lok Sabha seats and eleven assembly seats in Odisha. The list has some surprises. While BJP has fielded yesteryear ollywood actress Aparajita Mohanty from Bhubaneswar North, the party has made veteran leader Bijoy Mahapatra its nominee from Patkura in Kendrapara. Bijoy had fought […]
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 to Odisha’s legendary figures on Utkala Dibasa during his visit to the State, Shah fired first salvo at CM Patnaik. […]
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” (How are you all?), Modi also made a scathing attack on the Congress, during its regime. Thanking the people for […]
New Delhi: Narendra Modi continues to be the popular choice to be the next Prime Minister across a wide section of society, but the gap between him and Rahul Gandhi is thinnest among housewives. An overwhelming 63.6 per cent of unemployed respondents in the latest CVOTER-IANS poll tracker survey preferred Narendra Modi as the next Prime […]
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