Orissa

In the recently held Assembly elections BJD could win 51 seats while Bhartiya Janata Party secured a majority 78 MLAs in 147 member House

Bhubaneswar; Odisha BJP President, Manmohan Samal, said on Wednesday that the party's Parliamentary Board would soon decide regarding the state's chief minister. Samal also reiterated the BJP’s poll promise that only an Odia would be…

Bhubaneswar, June 3 (IANS) The leaders as well as workers of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are upbeat after almost all the Exit Polls surveys projected massive gains for the party in Lok Sabha elections in Odisha. The…

Bhubaneswar, June 3 (IANS) Odisha Governor Raghubar Das on Monday dissolved the 16th Odisha state assembly ahead of the counting on June 4. "In exercise of the power conferred upon me by Clause (2) (b) of Article-174 of the Constitution…

Bhubaneswar; Odisha Police have put in place adequate arrangements for the fourth phase of polling in the state on June 1. Polling will be held in six Parliamentary constituencies -- Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur , Kendrapara,…

Bhubaneswar; Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) are in a partnership in Odisha. He also said that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik "is working for the…

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his last leg of campaigning in Odisha on Wednesday, took a dig at the health condition of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, to which the veteran Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader said he is "perfectly…

Bhubaneswar, May 28 (IANS) A joint report of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Odisha Election Watch has revealed that 348 candidates out of the 1283 candidates who are contesting the ongoing Assembly election in Odisha face…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded a 60.07 per cent voter turnout, till 7.45 p.m. in the six Lok Sabha constituencies and 42 Assembly segments, which went to poll in the penultimate phase of Parliamentary and Assembly elections on Saturday.…

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Smriti Irani on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha during a marathon election campaign in the state. She addressed…

Coming down heavily on the BJP, the CM said there is a limit to these lies that the party can spread about his health.

Sarma claimed that several BJD members have expressed concerns about Patnaik's lack of private interactions over the past decade, always accompanied by Pandian.

Patnaik said that many BJP leaders use derogatory and abusive language. "I never believe in doing that and the people in our state don't appreciate such language," he asserted.

The other seven were also working as party members in CPI (Maoist). Apart from 10 Naxals, six to eight others have so far surrendered this year, said police sources.

Jaishankar said India has taken up issues on Khalistanis in Canada in great detail. The Canada government has a lot of knowledge about the Khalistanis living there but has chosen not to do anything.

BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik has fallen back on Dilip -after dropping him from candidature in 2019- to unseat Jual, who is seeking his sixth victory to end his electoral politics on a high note.

Pottangi is the other Assembly constituency where the party changed the nominee. Chaitanya Nandibali has replaced Chaitanya Hantal as the latter belong to scheduled caste.

Citing the National Family Health Survey (NHFS) in Odisha, the minister said newborns and women are suffering from malnutrition and anaemia.

As the Maoists spotted the security forces in the dense forest on Gandhamardan Hills in Paikmal police station area, they opened fire, police said.

Odisha BJP yet to pick candidates, may announce 35 names after April 10