Former Biju Janata Dal minister, Pradeep Maharathy arrested and sent to jail for attacking an election flying squadThe fate of Puri, Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, and Bhubaneswar will be decided in Monday’s voting.
23 Apr, 2019, 06.30 AM IST
Pre-poll violence rocks Odisha: EC magistrate, Congress chief, BJD candidate injuredBombs were also hurled at a BJP assembly candidate's car though none was injured, police said Monday.
22 Apr, 2019, 03.44 PM IST
No accidental Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik adept at setting narrativesWhile former BJD leaders Baijayant Panda and Damodar Rout’s joining the BJP was a forgone conclusion, former Union minister Dilip Ray’s pot...
17 Mar, 2019, 11.30 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
BJD, BJP supporters clash during shutdownAs BJP workers were busy enforcing the dawn-to-dusk bandh by staging road blockades and picketing, BJD members, mostly from its student win...
21 Dec, 2016, 03.39 PM IST
Pensions doled out to dead people in Odisha's Ganjam districtAuthorities have found that pensions under different social security schemes have been doled out in the names of at least six persons who h...
21 Aug, 2015, 02.21 PM IST
- Rivers bear brunt of idol immersion
Water pollution norms go for a toss when hundreds of idols are immersed in different water bodies during the festive season every year.
02 Oct, 2014, 11.28 AM IST
Elections 2014: BJD gets landslide victory in Odisha LS pollsBJD bagged 44.1 per cent votes and BJP got 21.5 per cent. Congress got 26 per cent of the total votes which is more than that of BJP.
17 May, 2014, 02.28 PM IST
BJD ahead in 112 Assembly seats, BJP, Cong far behind in OdishaChief Minister Naveen Patnaik was leading in Hinjili by 15,656 votes while the state president of Congress was trailing and that of BJP was...
16 May, 2014, 05.16 PM IST
Lok Sabha elections 2014: Last leg Odisha Lok Sabha, Assembly poll beginsA host of MPs including Tathagat Satpathy, Baijayant Panda, Pinaki Mishra, Bhatruhari Mahtab (all BJD) are also seeking re-election to the ...
17 Apr, 2014, 08.09 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi visits boat tragedy site in OdishaCongress vice president Rahul Gandhi today visited the site of the boat capsize incident in Hirakud reservoir which claimed 24 lives.
10 Feb, 2014, 03.40 PM IST
- Posco hits another green hurdle, National Green Tribunal slaps notices
National Green Tribunal issued notices to MoEF, Orissa government, OSPCB and Posco India asking about the circumstances under which environ...
03 Aug, 2011, 04.10 PM IST
- Orissa to fulfill demands of Pro-Posco group, work to start next week
Orissa govt will next week start constructing boundary wall for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco mega steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur di...
01 Jul, 2011, 08.11 PM IST
- Naveen takes YSR path to mobilise people against Centre's apathy
In a move that reminds of late Andhra Pradesh Congress leader Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's hugely successful padayatra to come to power, Biju Ja...
04 Oct, 2010, 02.41 AM IST
- Entry point to proposed Posco plant cleared of agitators
The police on Saturday cleared the entry point to the proposed Posco mega steel plant at Balitutha, of protesters resisting land acquisitio...
15 May, 2010, 06.42 PM IST
- Naveen Patnaik sworn in as Orissa Chief Minister
BJD is the first ever regional party to come to power on its own in Orissa.
21 May, 2009, 03.42 PM IST
- Congress eases out J B Patnaik as CLP leader
With the state Assembly and Lok Sabha polls barely three months away, the Congress high command has finally began a damage control exercise...
24 Jan, 2009, 09.08 PM IST