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More MPs hint at quitting BJD
Bhubaneswar: More Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MPs Tuesday hinted at quitting the party in the wake of the denial of tickets to them. The BJD issued its first list of candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 54 MLA seats, Monday. As soon as the list was made public, murmurs of...
Read moreNaveen’s choice: All hunky-dory for Subal Sahu’s family
Sambalpur: The family members of late Subal Sahu former Congress MLA from Bijepur and his wife Rita Sahu, sitting BJD MLA from the constituency, have thanked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for deciding to contest from Bijepur Assembly seat. Ainthu Sahu, elder brother of Subal Sahu, had appreciated the decision of the BJD supremo and said, “Naveen Patnaik has made the best choice to contest from Bijepur constituency. My entire family welcomes...
Read moreBJD dubs intelligence report fake, BJP seeks CBI probe
Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Tuesday termed the intelligence report produced by the BJP leaders at a news conference here Monday suggesting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to chose a safe seat from Western Odisha to contest the election as ‘fake and fabricated’. The state unit of BJP Monday produced an intelligence report reportedly from the state Intelligence Bureau wherein the Chief Minister was advised to contest any one of...
Read moreCBI, ED doing all it can to extradite Nirav Modi: Sources
New Delhi: All expeditious efforts are being made to get jeweller Nirav Modi extradited from the UK, CBI sources said Tuesday. They said the central probe agency is monitoring the developments taking place in London and all legal assistance is being extended to take the extradition request forward in that country. The legal procedure of extradition of an accused takes its own time and Indian investigators, both from the CBI and...
Read moreDemonetisation slowed down economy claims new book
New Delhi: Demonetisation was a terrible idea and the government’s own economic surveys have indicated that this move contributed to a slowdown in the economy, claims a new book. ‘The Great Disappointment: How Narendra Modi Squandered a Unique Opportunity to Transform the Indian Economy’ attempts to answer the overarching question of whether or not the Modi government transformed India’s economy and what the next government’s agenda should look like. Written by...
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More MPs hint at quitting BJD
Bhubaneswar: More Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MPs Tuesday hinted at quitting the party in the wake of the denial of tickets to them. The BJD issued its first list of candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 54 MLA seats, Monday. As soon as the list was made public, murmurs of protests were heard from within the party....
Will support Pakistan’s territorial integrity: China
Beijing, March 19: China Tuesday told the international community not to target Pakistan following the Pulwama suicide bombing in Kashmir and said it will stand by Islamabad during testing times and firmly support its sovereignty and territorial integrity. The two long-standing allies at a meeting of Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Shah Mehmood Qureshi discussed the Pulwama...
Naveen picks Pramila as a tribute to women in Mission Shakti
Bhubaneswar: A 68-year-old self-help group (SHG) member in Odisha has been allotted the BJD ticket for the Aska Lok Sabha seat, from where party president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had begun his political career around 20 years ago. Pramila Bisoi, who has formal education till Class III, was chosen as the candidate for the seat by...
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‘Kaze’ promotes road safety
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