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BJD MLA from Barabati-Cuttack Debasis Samantray’s sister-in-law Sikha Samantray on Sunday joined the campaign trail of Congress for the by-poll in Ward no-21 in Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC)

While the commissionerate police has intensified its investigation into the criminal activities of the Dhalasamant brothers, a retired police officer and former IGP Anadi Sahu today made a shocking revelation alleging that three BJD MLAs and former Director General of Police Sanjib Marik had a close link with them

While the commissionerate police is investigating into the criminal network of the Dhalasamant brothers, an exclusive OTV visual showing Sushil Dhalasamant sitting near a BJD leader at a function has brought to the fore the political links of these two brothers

Bhubaneswar/Malkangiri: The entire Bonda community in Odisha’s Malkangiri district is on cloud nine after Dambaru Sisa, the 33-year-old BJD MLA from Chitrakonda assembly seat in the district belonging to the particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) has got an invitation from the United States of America (USA) to attend a leadership programme.

Bhubaneswar: Announcing its plan to continue with agitations till the ouster of Narendra Modi from the helm, the Trinamool Congress today said it foresaw Mamata Banerjee as a future prime minister. “This could happen one day. After all, we are a political party which is growing by the day. People may decide that (making Mamata […]

Bhubaneswar: Alleging political vendetta behind the arrest of TMC leaders, Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandopadhya’s wife Nayna today said her husband was in the “custody of Modi” and not in the “CBI’s custody.” Nayna, who has been camping here ever since her husband had been brought to the CBI custody for his alleged link to […]

Kolkata: With two of its MPs, Tapas Pal and Sudip Bandopadhyay, arrested by the CBI here in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam, shifted to Bhubaneswar, the Trinamool Congress has decided to hold a protest rally in the Odisha capital tomorrow. “We cannot be cowed down by threats and vendetta politics. The Centre […]

Bhubaneswar: Released from jail on conditional bail, suspended BJD MLA Pravat Tripathy today attended the assembly on the opening day of the second phase of its budget session. Tripathy, who was arrested by CBI on October 31, 2014 for his alleged link with Artha Tatwa, a ponzi firm, was garnted conditional bail by Orissa High […]

Cuttack: A major controversy erupted after a video of Barabati-Cuttack MLA Debashish Samantaray manhandling a relative of Odia CRPF jawan Manoj Behera martyred in Pulwama attack, went viral on social media. Following the incident, the BJP has strongly condemned the BJD MLA’s act and staged protest at the Niali Bazar area Monday evening. As per […]

Bhubaneswar: With elections round the corner, the clamour for tickets has been a chaotic affair. Amid this chaos, BJD’s sitting MLA from Chhendipada, Sushant Kumar Behera, who has been retained by the party as candidate from the constituency has made some startling revelations. In a video, which is doing rounds in social media, Behera is […]

Puri: After Niranjan Pujari, Puspendra Singh Deo and Tukuni Sahu, another BJD MLA, Sanjay Das Burma, faced public wrath during an election campaign today. According to reports, some women residents of Bijipur village of Brahmagiri in Puri district staged a demonstration when Burma’s rally was passing through the area. With placards in hands, the women […]

Bhubaneswar: A special designated court on Saturday granted conditional bail to BJD MLA Pradeep Maharathy, who was arrested in connection with the attack on Election Commission surveillance squad. The court granted bail to the BJD MLA against sureties of Rs 50,000 and two bailers. Maharathy has also been directed to refrain from influencing witnesses and […]

Bolangir: A day after police rescued the Junior Engineer (JE) of Public Works Department in Patnagarh, who was allegedly kidnapped on Thursday hours after a video showing local BJD MLA Saroj Meher forcing him to do sit-ups in public went viral; his wife has accused the police of taking no action. Raising questions over the […]

Bhubaneswar: A Special Judge in the Additional District and Session Court in Bhubaneswar will hear the bail plea of Patnagarh BJD MLA Saroj Meher today for which the latter was shifted from Patnagarh jail to Bhubaneswar at 3 am today amid tight security. Meher was arrested for forcing junior engineer Jaykant Sabar of the Public […]

Bhubaneswar: A local special court deferred hearing of a bail petition of ruling BJD MLA Saroj Kumar Meher and sent him to jail on Monday for allegedly forcing a tribal engineer do sit-ups. As the lawyers here are holding agitation programmes, Meher was allowed to present his own case at the court. Pleading for bail, […]