Tag: Rajya Sabha

Bhubaneswar: Putting to rest the political speculation over BJD's stand in the election to the Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson post Thursday, the regional party extended its support to the NDA backed Janata Dal-United (JD-U) candidate Harivansh ...

Bhubaneswar: With the BJP-led NDA candidate JD(U) leader Harivansh Narayan Singh and the Congress-led joint opposition candidate of senior Congress leader and former Odisha in-charge BK Hariprasad all set to ...

Bhubaneswar: Noted sculptor from Odisha Raghunath Mohapatra has been nominated to Rajya Sabha. Apart from Mohapatra, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday nominated three others - farmer leader Ram Shakal, columnist ...

Bhubaneswar: While a section of the national media tipped Prasanna Acharya to be the next Rajya Sabha deputy chairman, the senior BJD leader said he was unaware of any such ...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday appointed Prasanna Acharya as the leader of the BJD parliamentary party in Rajya Sabha. The chief minister has apprised Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu ...

New Delhi: The result of Rajya Sabha elections were declared on Friday. Here is how the parties fared – Karnataka: The ruling Congress bagged three seats, while BJP got one in ...

Bhubaneswar: Three candidates of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD)—Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Achyut Samant and Prasant Nanda— would file their nomination papers on Friday for the ensuing Rajya Sabha polls scheduled ...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal is likely to nominate a leader from Sundergarh district as the party candidate in the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections, party sources said on Wednesday. ...

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to field Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh, party sources said on ...

Bhubaneswar: The process for elections to three vacant seats of Rajya Sabha began in Odisha on Monday with the Odisha Legislative Assembly issuing a notification to this effect. It followed ...