Poll card Odisha: BJP aims to challenge Naveen Patnaik’s iron gripET takes a look at factors playing out in the state: In 2019, BJP emerged as the main challenger to BJD and won eight Lok Sabha seats. Howe...
13 May, 2024, 12.47 AM IST
Govt holds all-party meet on ManipurAn all-party meeting was convened by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday to discuss the ethnic violence in Manipur that has left near...
24 Jun, 2023, 06.01 PM IST
BJD to go solo in 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Naveen PatnaikPatnaik has been at the helm in Odisha since 2000 and his BJD is among some regional parties which have maintained a neutral stand on the i...
12 May, 2023, 11.43 AM IST
Congress sees multiple plots in K Chandrashekara Rao’s third front moveThe Congress also sees a definite pattern in the choice of regional leaders whom the Telangana chief minister and his emissaries reached ou...
07 Mar, 2018, 09.02 AM IST
Naveen Patnaik pre-empts rivals by suspending Baijayant PandaThe development comes at a time when the regional party faced with serious incumbency is gearing up to take on BJP.
29 Jan, 2018, 12.09 PM IST
BJD, BJP Members Clash during Bhubaneswar BandhBJP claimed that the bandh and protests were peaceful until the police allowed a bike rally of Biju Cchatra Janata Dal, they started the vi...
22 Dec, 2016, 10.10 AM IST
In Odisha, BJP has little hope of stopping Naveen Patnaik from getting a fifth consecutive termBJP was no greenhorn in Odisha in 2014, as it was in TN and Bengal which had bucked the rampant Modi wave. It was part of the ruling coalit...
19 Jun, 2016, 11.19 AM IST
JD(U) alleges interference by BJP government in statesHe alleged that since the BJP government has taken over, there is "regular interference" in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
16 Jun, 2014, 04.51 PM IST
BJP-led NDA has the muscle, but still can't prevent skirmishes in Lok SabhaNDA managers seem to realize that despite the opposition's diminished numbers, Parliament will remain a turbulent arena.
11 Jun, 2014, 12.31 PM IST
45 per cent polling in Odisha till 2 PMAngul district recorded the highest polling of 52.3 per cent, followed by Keonjhar with 51 per cent and the lowest was over 32 per cent.
17 Apr, 2014, 03.19 PM IST
TMC's bid to bring no-confidence motion fails in Lok SabhaTrinamool's no-confidence motion against the UPA was not tabled in the Lok Sabha after the party failed to muster the required 50 MPs to fo...
22 Nov, 2012, 02.57 PM IST
Odisha violence: Cops book Jagdish Tytler, Congress leaders for clashPolice also arrested 34 people on charges of being involved in the violence that left scores, including Congress activists, cops and mediap...
08 Sep, 2012, 12.47 PM IST
- Posco faces fresh hurdles, Naveen Patnaik government on defensive
Last week's clash near Posco's project site in Odisha is brewing trouble for the South Korean steelmaker and the state government.
20 Dec, 2011, 02.54 AM IST
- Sonia Gandhi calls left anti-secular
If Sharad Pawar describes Naveen Patnaik as a 'great secularist', Rahul labels Orissa chief minister as the 'destroyer of secularism'.
09 Apr, 2009, 04.30 AM IST
- NCP, BJD differ on joining third front
Even as the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik, on Wednesday, drove home that his party would not suppor...
08 Apr, 2009, 09.21 PM IST
- Fear haunts people in Kandhamal: Patil
RSS blames state govt for failing to protect Swami Laxmanananda, prevent riots.
04 Sep, 2008, 12.58 AM IST
- Furore in Lok Sabha over alleged violation of security rules by Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi put the Orissa government in a difficult situation by going to an ‘undisclosed destination’ for four hours at ...
14 Mar, 2008, 02.52 AM IST