Politics

Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Saturday criticised the Odisha government for its alleged failure to protect the state’s border areas from neighbouring states. BJP state vice-president Bhrugu Buxipatra told the media...

Bhubaneswar: Chilka MLA of ruling BJD Prashant Jagdev, who beat up a BJP legislator on Wednesday, was suspended from the party. Chief minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik in an...

Bhubaneswar: Amid vociferous protests from the Opposition benches, the state Assembly on Wednesday passed the Odisha Panchayat laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 fixing 50 per cent seat reservation limit for SCs...

Bhubaneswar: The penultimate day of the monsoon session of the State Assembly was stalled on Wednesday amid an uproar by the Opposition Congress and BJP members. As soon as the...

Mumbai: Fearing untoward incidents, police personnel have been posted outside the residence of Javed Akhtar’s Mumbai residence after his alleged remark comparing RSS with the Taliban evoked strong response from...

Bhubaneswar:  Minister of State for Water Resources and Tribal Welfare Bisweswar Tudu who was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers recently has planned to tour Odisha to study ground...

Mumbai: None of Javed Akhtar’s movies will be screened in India until he apologises with folded hands, a BJP MLA has dared. The celebrated lyricist-screenplay writer had said in a...

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has alleged large scale corruption in purchase of CCTV cameras by the state government through Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC). Speaking to media persons,...

New Delhi: The first opinion poll on next year’s assembly elections has predicted BJP victory in Uttar Pradesh and three other states. According to the first round of ABP-CVoter survey,...

Bhubaneswar: With the Election Commission announcing the date for bypoll to Pipili Assembly constituency, the model code of conduct comes into effect Saturday. The Commission has issued a set of...