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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Assembly is virtually in turmoil for the second consecutive day on Friday. The opposition – BJP and Congress – are in a paddy over the ‘messy paddy procurement’ by the State government. The entire opposition was up in arms today. And the grim news from Nuapada came in the evening hours, […]

Bhubaneswar: Soon after Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari presented the Rs 1,70,00 crore budget for the financial year 2021-22 in the Odisha Assembly on Monday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik termed it as ‘pro-people, pro-growth and transformative.’ In a tweet, Patnaik wrote, “OdishaBudget2021 is a pro-people, pro-growth and transformative budget in our journey towards “New Odisha […]

The countdown for the 2021 Assembly election in West Bengal has begun. While Mamata Banerjee’s ruling TMC seems to be confident of coming back to power for the third time in a row with an absolute majority, the BJP is in pressure to retain their success during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by wining 18 […]

Bhubaneswar: It is now more than two years that the elections to various urban local bodies (ULBs) in Odisha are still pending. After some legal confusion and subsequent Covid-19 lockdown, the fate of the civic polls still hangs in balance owing to the inordinate delay. However, Law Minister Pratap Jena on Thursday said that the […]

Chennai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be contesting in 20 Tamil Nadu assembly seats alongside the Loksabha seat from Kanyakumari where bypolls was necessitated following the death of sitting Member of Parliament H. Vasanthakumar. The seat-sharing arrangement with the ruling AIADMK party was finalised late Friday. While state BJP leadership was expecting more than […]

New Delhi: Former Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi joined the BJP on Saturday, weeks after he announced quitting his Rajya Sabha membership on the floor of the House deploring “violence” in poll-bound West Bengal. He joined the BJP in the presence of its president J P Nadda, and Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Dharmendra Pradhan […]

Bhubaneswar: With an aim to prepare the party for the future Assembly polls in Odisha, BJP national president JP Nadda has tasked the top leaders in the State to strengthen the organisation at grassroots level. The BJP supremo has asked the State leadership to complete all major tasks beginning from Booth to Mandal by December […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the State Cabinet approved creation of a separate Mission Shakti Department, Opposition BJP and Congress have lashed out at the ruling BJD while accusing it of playing women card ahead of the urban and panchayat elections. The Opposition parties have rubbished government’s claim that ‘Mission Shakti department would help strengthening the […]

Kolkata: Barely a few weeks ahead of the high-voltage Assembly polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress leader Sarala Murmu, who had received a ticket for the upcoming elections last week, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday. Besides Murmu, four-time Trinamool MLA from Satgachhia Sonali Guha, sitting Singur MLA Rabindranath Bhattacharya, five-time outgoing MLA […]

Jajpur: Even as the world celebrated women’s day with much pomp and grandeur on Monday, a minor tribal girl was allegedly gang-raped by four men the previous night. The victim, a college student from Duburi area in Jajpur district, was on her way to collect scholarship money from a private company at Kaliapani area in […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released a list of ‘Star Campaigners’ for West Bengal and Assam Assembly polls. Prime Minister NArendra Modi will lead the party’s campaign in both the states. Actor Mithun Chakraborty, who joined the BJP at the Prime Minister’s rally on Sunday, has been made one of the star […]

Bhubaneswar: The second phase of the Budget session of Odisha Assembly began on a stormy note on Friday with Opposition BJP and Congress creating ruckus in the House over paddy procurement. The Opposition accused the Odisha government of betrayal for not implementing the decision taken in the all-party meeting to address the problems of the […]

Bhubaneswar: Hundreds of BJP workers from Bhubaneswar district unit took out a rally in the capital city on Friday protesting the steep hike in the holding tax and demanded its revocation within a month. The saffron party workers took out a massive procession from Mausi Maa Square to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) office and submitted […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJP on Friday demanded a detailed probe into the Similipal forest fire, while the Odisha government claimed that the inferno is now under control. Leader of the Opposition P K Naik of the BJP, expressing concern over the massive forest fire, wrote in a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, “It is a […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Assembly continued to witness heavy pandemonium for the fourth consecutive day as both Opposition and ruling party have remained adamant over their demands. Even an all-party meeting was convened by the Speaker to end the deadlock, it has remained inconclusive after Opposition BJP and Congress staged walkout as the issues of farmers […]