Tag: Kalahandi

Lanjigarh: The vicinity of Vedanta Alumina here turned into a battle ground when the security guards of the factory resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the factory’s labourers who had staged an agitation demanding jobs for locals today. At least two persons including a security personnel of Odisha Industrial Security Force (OISF) were killed  while 30 others […]

Bhubaneswar: The rebellion over party ticket distribution in BJD scaled a ‘royal’ high. A royal challenge staring at the party as two of its prominent sitting MPs with royal lineage have raised a banner of revolt after being denied tickets. BJD had fielded 11 royals, including 3 in Lok Sabha, in 2014. While sitting BJD […]

Kalahandi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is making all arrangements to increase the voters’ turnout in the upcoming 2019 elections. However, several members of a family in Odisha are now in a fix whether they can exercise thier franchise in the upcoming polls or not owing to mistakes in thier voter cards. All the […]

Bhubaneswar: For BJD, Kalahandi electoral battle is not all in black and white. Grey areas are galore for the party. BJD is seemingly not in a comfortable position in 2019 elections, notwithstanding the fact that CM Naveen Patnaik is in the poll fray from western Odisha. Significantly, no party ever has succeeded to win Kalahandi […]

Kalahandi: Just days after the Special Task Force of Crime Branch busted a leopard skin smuggling racket from Sambalpur, police have seized another leopard hide from Ambadola-Dhanrabhata road under Lanjigarh block of Kalahandi district early today morning. As per reports, a team of Biswanathpur police intercepted two persons travelling on a bike from Ambadola during […]

Bhubaneswar: Unaccounted cash worth over Rs 17 lakh was seized from several parts of Odisha in the past two days. As per reports, Badamal Police in Jharsuguda seized Rs 4.5 lakh and Rs 1.5 lakh from two separate vehicles on Friday. Similarly, the Election flying squad seized Rs 6.70 lakh from a van near Koida […]

Bhawanipatna: Launching a razor-sharp attack on BJD, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday termed the Naveen Patnaik led BJD government an ‘annex’ to the ‘Congress culture’. Beginning his address here today with “Apana mane Kemiti Acchanti” (How are you all?), Modi also made a scathing attack on the Congress, during its regime. Thanking the people for […]

Dharmagarh: In a shocking incident, a youth reportedly thrashed four persons to death in an inebriated condition today. The incident was reported from Jayapatna of Kalahandi district. According to sources, four dead bodies were found on Palasa-Pipalguda road, following which police reached the spot and launched an investigation. The deceased have been identified as Sundar […]

Bhawanipatna: A day after BJD leader and Minister Niranjan Pujari was opposed, the party’s Kalahandi Lok Sabha candidate Puspendra Singh Deo faced similar wrath from people during a poll campaign rally at Kaudala village in Kalahandi district on Saturday. The matter came to light after a video of the incident went viral on social media. […]

Kalahandi/Bhubaneswar: While all the political parties have rolled up their sleeves to intensify campaigns on the last day of campaigning for first phase polls in Odisha, Chief Minister and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik has been campaigning for party’s Lok Sabha and assembly candidates in Kalahandi district for the second consecutive day […]

Kalahandi: With just a day before the first phase polls in the State, the Election Commission flying squad today seized unaccounted cash worth Rs 2 lakh from the vehicle of Pradeep Dishari, BJD’s candidate from Lanjigarh  Assembly constituency, near Jayapatna area in the district. According to sources, Dishari along with his four associates were in […]

Rourkela/Kalahandi/Bhubaneswar: With multiple incidents of cash and liquor seizures reported in Odisha just before the elections, concerns are being raised over free and fair conduct of polls across the State. A special flying squad for elections on Wednesday recovered cash worth Rs 27.49 lakh during inspection of vehicles at Mahapani chhak in Bisra area of […]

Bhubaneswar: Brisk polling was recorded in Odisha on Thursday with around 70 per cent of the over 60 lakh electorate casting their votes in four Lok Sabha and 28 Assembly constituencies, preliminary data by Chief Electoral Officer, Bhubaneswar said. However, even as the exact figure is yet to come, the estimated poll percentage is below the […]

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 […]

Bhawanipatna: Opposing road construction, the red rebels Tuesday night allegedly torched vehicles at Nuamunda village under Madanpur Rampur police limits of Kalahandi district. Sources said that a group of 30-40 armed Maoists came to the village late last night and torched five tractors, two JCB machines and a mixture machine engaged in construction of road […]