Tag: Badri Patra

Cuttack: An hour after the commencement of the Matriculation examination across Odisha today, question papers of Odia reportedly surfaced on social media in Nuapada district and Kamakhyanagar of Dhenkanal district. Though the question papers were reportedly found to be viral on WhatsApp and other social media, School and Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra rubbished […]

Keonjhar: Two days after police arrested Debasish Patra, son of School and Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra, Ghasipura police and Ramachandrapur police registered two more cases against the former. As per a complaint filed by Anandpur municipality vice-chairman Suresh Sahu, police have registered a case against 15 persons along with Debashish. This apart, another […]

Bhubaneswar: With the State’s block-grant teachers’ stir entering the fifth day today, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today met the agitating teachers and discussed their issues at the dharna place near PMG square here. He urged the State government to intervene in the matter at the earliest to ensure a smooth academic system. “CM Naveen Patnaik […]

Two police complaints were registered at the Ghasipura police station of Keonjhar district today after four Home Guards were injured in an attack of residents of Belbahali village yesterday

Bhubaneswar: Amid rising dissidence in the Odisha unit of Congress marked by the recent exits of senior leaders and MLAs, ruling-BJD leader and minister Badri Patra today targeted Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president, Niranjan Patnaik accusing him of ruining the Congress. Speaking to reporters, Patra said that the PCC president harbours anger towards the […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid allegations of question papers going viral on social media during conduct of Matric Exams in Odisha, State School & Mass Education Minister Badri Patra today said the incidents will have no effect on the examination process. Briefing mediapersons, Patra said, “Strict inspection and frisking is being ensured to prevent entry of mobile phones […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when Dhakotha in Keonjhar remained shut over demands to arrest the accused in murder of former block chairman and ex-MLA candidate from Ghasipura assembly constituency Ram Chandra Behera, senior BJP leader Damodar Rout made lot of noise levelling serious allegations against senior political leaders and a bureaucrat as the brain behind […]

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 […]

Bhubaneswar: Even before Congress had finalised its candidate for the Ghasipura Assembly constituency in Keonjhar, the poll season’s first war of words between the two political heavyweights in the race- BJD’s Badri Patra and Odisha Congress president Niranjan Patnaik, had already begun. Today, as polling is underway in the constituency, the OPCC chief stated that […]