Tag: Dilip Ray

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Law Minister Pratap Jena today revealed that the inner and outer Ratna Bhandar of Puri Srimandir had 12838 bhari (10 gms approx) gold ornaments, 22153 bhari silver and 12 unweighed gold & silver items based on the assessment done in 1978. This important information was given by Jena at the Odisha Assembly in […]

Bhubaneswar:  After the tempest over party ticket distribution, BJD President and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced the candidates list for the first and second phases of poll.  The list reveals that the BJD has mainly dropped the MLAs who have lost by a narrow margin of votes or won narrowly in the range of 0.5 […]

Bhubaneswar: With veteran Bijay  Mohapatra mollified and back in the BJP fold there is intense speculation about the possible return of his comrade-in-arms, former union minister, Dilip Ray to the party. Ray, who was elected to the state assembly from Rourkela on a BJP ticket in 2014, had quit the party miffed at the inordinate […]

Bhubaneswar: Veteran leader and former Rourkela MLA Dilip Ray today expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for expediting the work for IGH and second Brahmani bridge which has been hanging in balance till now. In a tweet, Ray thanked PM Modi for sanction of funds for the projects. “A budgetary provision of Rs […]

Bhubaneswar: Political trade winds in Rourkela turned tailwind for the BJP, when veteran leader and former steel city BJP MLA Dilip Ray fanned out the winds of grace for the BJP. Ray quit the BJP last December accusing it of letting down hopes of the steel city. In a tweet Thursday night, the veteran leader […]

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: A couple of days after senior leader Dilip Ray expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for expediting the work for a super speciality hospital and second bridge over Brahmani River in Rourkela, Union Minister Jual Oram today urged Ray to return to BJP. Dillip Ray’s proposals have been accepted by PM Modi […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Former union minister, Dilip Ray had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and also his membership of the state assembly from Rourkela a few months ago apparently angry over the non-fulfilment of the two promises Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had made to the people of Odisha’s steel city during the 2014 […]

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: Former Union minister Dilip Ray was on Tuesday convicted by a special court in Delhi in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999. #BREAKING Former union minister from #Odisha, Dilip Ray convicted by Delhi court in coal scam case.#CoalScamCase pic.twitter.com/Mp62JBwbtd — OTV […]

Former Union minister Dilip Ray has been convicted by a special court in Delhi in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Jharkhand in 1999. Special Judge Bharat Parashar convicted Ray, former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, for criminal conspiracy and other […]

Bhubaneswar: The special CBI court in Delhi will hear the arguments on the quantum of sentence for Dilip Ray, the then Union Minister of State for Coal and others, convicted in the coal block allocation scam, today. The case pertains to allocation of Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to Castron Technologies Ltd (CTL) […]

Delhi: The Special CBI Court in Delhi on Wednesday reserved its verdict on quantum of punishment against Dilip Ray, the former Union Minister of State for Coal and others, who were convicted in the coal block allocation case, till October 26. On October 6, the Rouse Avenue Court had convicted Ray, two senior officials of […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday urged a Delhi court to award life imprisonment to former Union Minister of State (MoS) for Coal Dilip Ray and other convicts in a coal block allocation case. The court will pronounce the order on their sentencing on October 26. Ray, now a hotelier, was […]

Bhubaneswar: A Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court in New Delhi is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment today for ex-BJD MP Dilip Ray and others convicted in the high profile coal block allocation scandal in 1999. Ray, a hotelier now, was the minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA […]

Delhi: A Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court in New Delhi on Monday sentenced ex-BJD MP and former Union Minister Dilip Ray to three years imprisonment in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999. Two other officials convicted in the case have also been […]

Bhubaneswar: Ex-BJD MP and former Union Minister Dilip Ray has been granted bail soon after a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court in New Delhi sentenced him to three years imprisonment on Monday. Ray was earlier sentenced in case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Jharkhand in 1999. As […]