Tag: Congress

Bhubaneswar: With the final numbers being out, the voter turnout in the first phase of 2019 polls in Odisha was a slice less than the 2014 turnout. According to the data released by Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar, the four Lok Sabha and 28 assembly constituencies that went to poll on Thursday recorded a […]

Bolangir/Mayurbhanj: Poll campaigning on any given season draws attention of the voters and when women members of Royal families hit the campaign trail on ground in this sizzling weather, the air of gloom lifts momentarily and entire limelight shifts towards them. Seven women from Bolangir and Mayurbhanj constituencies were in the line up urging voters […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after quitting the Congress, former spokesperson of the grand old party, Sonali Sahu today joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) camp here. “Inspired by the ideologies of PM Modi and to be part of the development process in the country, I joined BJP,”she said. Sahu further stated that BJD has been in power […]

Bolangir: A few days ahead of the second phase elections on April 18, pre-poll violence erupted in Bolangir with a BJD worker sustaining critical injuries after being allegedly attacked by some Congress activists. As per reports, some Congress workers allegedly barged into the ruling BJD’s office at Chandanbhati village under Sadar Police Station in the […]

Aligarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lashed out at the Congress for humiliating the author of the Indian Constitution Dr B.R. Ambedkar and not giving him his due. Addressing an election rally here, Modi said: “The Congress has always insulted Dr Ambedkar. But I have seen other parties too that claimed to follow the […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha politics  witnessed a mutagenic turn of events on Saturday, when CM Naveen Patnaik for the first time in last 19-years made lack of CM candidate of an opposition party a big poll issue this elections. Why this is significant because, BJD so far has never given a damn on CM candidate of other […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday demanded that the Centre make public the minutes of the meeting (MoM) between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former French President Francois Hollande, which culminated in the Rafale fighter aircraft deal. “The draft of the joint statement of the Indian Prime Minister and the French President did not have […]

Hinjli: In this constituency of CM Naveen Patnaik, betel farmers have a bitter tale to tell. This farmer dominated constituency is saddled with agro problems galore for years, despite none other than the CM representing the constituency since the year 2000. Farmers in the constituency mainly cultivate betel, sugarcane and vegetables.At the Ralav village, the […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s comment that the Supreme Court has said “chowkidar chor hai” is wrongly attributed to the court and demanded an explanation from him in seven days. Clarifying that the comment made during Gandhi’s election campaign was wrongly attributed to the apex court, a bench […]

Rourkela: Hours before Election Commission barred from campaigning for 72 hours from 6 AM tomorrow, Firebrand BJP leader and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Monday castigated the Naveen Patnaik led BJD government as a dispensation which is neck-deep in corruption. He exhorted the people to install a BJP government in Bhubaneswar in the year 2019 […]

Bhubaneswar: Will Bargarh, which has earned the epithet of Odisha’s Vidharbha owing to consecutive droughts and resultant large-scale farmer suicides for last few years, witness a  ‘green’ or ‘saffron ‘ revolution in the 2019 polls? Like the Vidharbha region in Maharashtra, Bargarh has been the cauldron of farm distress in Odisha for last few years. […]

Agartala: A young tribal boy killed three people including a woman and injured another in northern Tripura after a brief altercation late on Sunday night, police said on Monday. “After some quarrel, a minor tribal boy killed three tribals with an axe at Paiseram Karbari Para village under Manikpur police station late on Sunday night,” […]

Sambalpur: In his first poll address post first phase polls in Odisha, an aggressive Prime Minister Narendra Modi fired a salvo at CM Naveen Patnaik. He was addressing the Vijay Sankalp Samabesh of the BJP at Sambalpur today. Though he didn’t name Naveen directly, in his inimitable style Modi did take a dig at Naveen, […]

Bhubaneswar: For the former MP and senior BJP leader Kharbela Swain, the battle for Kandhamal in 2019 will be an uphill one, though he is known as a doughty fighter. Interestingly, the forename ‘Mahamegha Bahan Aira’ was name of the dynasty to which famous ancient Kalinga king Kharbela belongs. What seems to be a daunting […]

Bhubaneswar: A video showing Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan engaging in a verbal spat with police officials at Burla in Sambalpur after landing at the MCL helipad yesterday has gone viral. According to sources, some police officials wanted to inspect the helicopter in which Pradhan had arrived. Subsequently, a heated argument broke out between the Union […]