It is becoming increasingly clear that local police did their best to botch up the probe into the 23-year-old’s murder from the very beginning.
Ever since he contested the bypolls to the Aska parliamentary seat, which had fallen vacant after the demise of his father Biju Patnaik, in 1997, the BJD supremo has always trounced his rivals.
The scheme is expected to be a ‘game changer’ for the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the coming panchayat elections.
Though there has been no confirmation from Majhi, who was the MP from Nabarangpur from 2009-14, sources close to him say he is set to join the BJD.
Both national parties see red as Naveen Patnaik changes the rules for counting of votes in panchayat polls. One side fears ‘rigging’, the other a domino effect.
Panchayat polls are due in Odisha. How to ensure caste disaffection doesn’t throw a spanner in the works for BJD? Why, promise 27 per cent tickets to the backward castes…
The police arrested the prime accused Gobinda Sahu, who had escaped from the police barrack in Titliagarh, from a sugarcane field in Budhipadar village on Tuesday evening.
The BJD’s move comes barely three days after a delegation of the party MPs met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and sought a legislation to raise quota for OBCs in the state.
The holy town of Puri has become the first city in the country to provide something that only major world cities like London and New York offer: clean drinking...
The question is why did the chief ministers of two neighbouring states hit by the same cyclone react differently to the PM’s visit for the purpose of...
Two editorials by BJD leaders Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and Bhartruhari Mahatab, which questioned the state of affairs in Odisha and within the BJD, have stirred a...
Thinking out of the box, and of course, knowing what would bring laurels for him, has been a notable trait of Naveen Patnaik.
A BJD strongman is felled by the virus. A bypoll is announced, then deferred, then deferred again. Pandemic-struck Odisha gets an electoral version of a triple...
Odisha’s Adivasis are usually peaceable folks. But angered by official apathy to human-elephant conflict, they halt an MLA’s cavalcade and force her out to...
Naveen Patnaik, who also heads Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is on the chief ministerial chair for a record fifth term since 2000.
Panigrahi, till recently considered close to CM Naveen Patnaik, has been arrested on charges of forgery, fraud and criminal conspiracy
The three-time MLA and a former minister is the first leader in the regional party who has been expelled on the charge of "anti-people" activities.
TMC described Amit Shah's refugee community outreach a 'poll gimmick'
OTV channel is owned by the family of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s friend-turned-foe Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, who joined BJP.
Did Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik make a 19-minute aerial survey of flood-affected areas on August 31? Experts say he couldn’t have gone far in that...
Describing Anubhav as a ‘professional drinker’, Barsha has said he would frequently bring his friends into his bed room and carouse till the wee hours.
Pandian's early-to-bed and early-to-rise lifestyle and his unusual working strategies have taken top-notch administrators out of their comfort zone
From a socialite to the hotseat as Odisha chief minister, Naveen Patnaik's economic reforms and disaster management won hearts of the common man who casts his...
