Election

Bhubaneswar: Seven sitting MPs and 14 MLAs have been denied tickets in its first phase list announced by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) here Monday. The party has denied tickets to Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh, Arka Keshari Deo and Prabhas Kumar Singh for Kandhamal, Kalahandi and...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 10 women candidates from Biju Janata Dal (BJD) figured in the list of 54 Assembly seats and three women for nine Parliamentary constituencies announced by party  supremo Naveen Patnaik here Monday. The list included six new faces, two ministers and two...

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...

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,...

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...

Bhubaneswar: A day after announcing the names of candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 54 Assembly seats, BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is all set to file his nomination papers at Hinjili in Ganjam district, Wednesday. As per a press release issued by...

Bhubaneswar: Prominent BJD leader, Pramod Patnaik resigned from the primary membership of the party, Tuesday. In his resignation letter to Chief Minister and BJP president Naveen Patnaik, the disgruntled leader said that the party had promised to nominate him from the Junagarh constituency for the...

New Delhi: The Congress Monday released the first list of its candidates for six Lok Sabha and 36 Assembly constituencies in Odisha. The party has announced the names of candidates for the constituencies where elections will be held in the first and second phases. However,...

Mumbai: The income tax department Monday appealed the people to come forward with information to curb abuse of the electoral process through cash and other inducements during the forthcoming general elections that begin April 10 and end May 19. “We are looking for credible information...

New Delhi: A day after declaring its candidate for the seventh Lok Sabha seat, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Monday made it clear that there would be neither any alliance with the Congress nor a rollback of any of its candidates in Delhi. Asserting that...