Bhubaneswar, May 13 (UNI) Amid tight security, polling began at 7 am in four Lok Sabha and 28 Assembly seats spread across eight districts of Odisha on Monday. A little over 62.84 lakh voters, including 31.87 lakh women voters and 635 transgender individuals, would exercise their franchise to seal the electoral fortunes of 37 Lok…
Bhubaneswar, May 12 (UNI) Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has strongly rebutted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks, stating that the BJP cannot win the confidence of the people of Odisha in the next ten years. During his election meetings in Kandhamal, Bolangir, and Bargarh on Saturday, the Prime Minister made a scathing attack on Patnaik, accusing…
Bhawanipatna, May 8 (UNI) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday came down heavily on both the Congress and the BJD for neglecting Odisha during the last 75 years of rule. Addressing an election meeting here, Rajnath said, ‘The people of Odisha have seen what type of development has taken place in the state by…
Bhubaneswar, April 28 (UNI) Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched the election campaign for the Congress party in Odisha by making a scathing attack on both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha at an election meeting at Salepur. Addressing the gathering that arrived from Jajpur, Kendrapara Cuttack, and…
Bhubaneswar, April 6 (UNI) A major fire broke out in a conveyor belt of the Kaniha plant of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Odisha’s Talcher on Saturday causing extensive damages to the belt and panic among the plant staff and the local residents. The fire, NTPC sources said has been doused fully and no…
Bhubaneswar, Apr 3 (UNI) BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik, on Wednesday, released the names of party candidates for five more Lok Sabha and 27 Assembly seats in Odisha. Earlier, Patnaik had released the names of candidates for 15 Lok Sabha seats in two phases and 72 Assembly seats in the first phase. On Wednesday, the BJD…
Bhubaneswar, Mar 31 (UNI) Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has declared the names of candidates for the three remaining Lok Sabha seats. BJP on Saturday declared the names of Bhartuhari Mahatab as its candidate for the Cuttack Lok Sabha Seat, nominated Rabindra Kumar Behera for the Jajpur Parliamentary constituency and Sukant Kumar Panigrahi for the Kandhamal…
Bhubaneswar, Mar 27 (UNI) BJD President Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced the list of party candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 72 Assembly seats in Odisha for the upcoming elections. The ruling BJD is the state’s first political party to announce the party candidates’ names for Assembly seats. Odisha will hold simultaneous Assembly and Lok…
Bhubaneswar, Mar 22 (UNI) Former Odisha Minister and veteran BJD leader Damodar Rout, who was elected to the Odisha legislative assembly seven times during his over four decades-long political career, passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar here on Friday morning. Family sources said Rout (83) breathed his last at 5:23 AM this morning…
Bhubaneswar, Mar 12 (UNI) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has sanctioned an allocation of Rs.374.17 crore for the construction of a 3.5-km-long six-lane flyover at Ainthapali junction and a two-lane ROB (LHS) on NH 53 formerly NH 6 in Sambalpur. In a post on Tuesday Gadkari said an allocation of Rs…
