Tag: Third Floor

Bhubaneswar: Former Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout today refuted the claims of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who on Saturday had stated that the senior BJD leader had to pay a price for being vocal about the corruption that spreads till the third floor of the State Secretariat. “Dama Babu had said in Rayagada that the trail […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik meeting senior BJD leaders Baishnab Parida and Nabin Nanda as more and more people join the march against interference of bureaucracy in politics might have left very little to imagination. Both Baishnab and Nabin have been vocal about the interference of bureaucracy in Odisha politics. As speculations continue, BJD’s Kendrapara […]

Bhubaneswar: With the support of the BJP, the Opposition Congress today grilled the government in Assembly over growing collection of ‘PC’ in State even as Opposition chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati threatened to follow ‘assault formula’ to stop the practice. “Collection of ‘PC’ is rampant in the Third Floor (read Secretariat). So, the officials there […]

Cuttack: Protesting the rise in the number violence in Odisha in the ongoing three-tier Panchayat polls, the BJP today gheraoed the office of the Director General of Police (DGP) here. Reports said hundreds of activists of Cuttack Nagar BJP and BJP Yuva Morcha led by their leader and former minister Samir De went on a […]

Bhubaneswar: Coming down heavily on the ruling BJD after the second phase panchayat elections, Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan today alleged the ruling regional party is using the bureaucracy for its own interest and creating a panicky environment to terrorise people. The union minister suggested the Naveen Patnaik-led party to accept the change what citizens want. […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as speculation is rife whether Crime Branch would take arrested comedian Papu Pom Pom on remand for interrogation on his involvement in the Oscar chit fund scam, Opposition BJP and Congress have alleged that the ruling party has tied the hands of the probe agency after the names of its actor-MPs like Sidhant […]

Bhubaneswar: It seems that Puri Police is not willing to accept the Director General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) report which recently dismissed charges brought against former Kendrapara MP Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda’s helicopter ride over Chilika Lake. Though a team of Puri Police on Monday unsealed the IMFA hangar inside the Bhubaneswar airport after 42 days, […]