Bijoy Mohapatra, a founder member of the BJD, has lost every election since he left the party nearly two decades ago.

Vaishnav, who was private secretary to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, joined the BJP in the presence of the party's Odisha uni...

Bypolls would be held for at least 41 assembly seats and two MLC posts in the next six months.

Chauhan told ET he had since worked hard to nurture this constituency that he was confident of winning and was surprised at being denied th...

PM is expected to highlight his govt's achievements. The choice of Cuttack in coastal Odisha for the rally is also expected to enthuse the ...

Brajendra Singh Yadav of the Congress defeated his BJP rival Baisahab Yadav by a margin of 2,124 votes to win the Mungaoli seat while in Ko...

The ruling party’s candidate, Rita Sahu, widow of three-time Congress Bijepur MLA, won with 102,871 votes leaving behind BJP’s Ashok Paniga...

Sahu won the by-election by defeating her nearest BJP rival Ashok Panigrahi by a margin of 41,933 votes, an EC official said.

The BJD earlier used to nominate non-political representatives, too, to the upper house of Parliament from the state.

Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the by-poll in the constituency located in Bargarh district, especially in the wake of p...

Polling for the Bijepur assembly constituency will take place on Saturday. Results are to be announced on February 28.

The attack on the CM, who was to spend the night in the western Odisha district, took place at the third of his rallies at Kumbhari in Barp...

Odisha’s two union ministers, Dharmendra Pradhan and Jual Oram, have been camping in western Odisha district for the last five days.

The by-election to the Bijepur Assembly constituency in Odisha will be held on February 24 and the counting of votes will take place on Feb...

Mohanty had unsuccessfully contested from Cuttack Lok Sabha seat as a Congress candidate in the 2014 general elections. She quit the Congre...

In September ruling party BJD had shaken things up by welcoming Rita Sahu, widow of Bijepur MLA Subal Sahu, into its fold.

While bypoll for the Bijepur Assembly was necessitated following the death of three-time Congress MLA Subal Sahu in August this year, the e...