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Bhubaneswar: BJP MLA from Odisha's Nilgiri constituency, Sukanta Kumar Nayak, Friday tendered his resignation from the party. Nayak, a two-time MLA from the constituency - from the Biju Janata Dal in 2014 and from the BJP in 2019 - submitted his resignation in a letter...

Bhubaneswar: Three-time Congress MLA and former minister Surendra Singh Bhoi resigned from the primary membership of the party after 38 years and joined the ruling BJD Friday. Two BJP leaders – Nilgiri MLA Sukant Nayak and the party's Cuttack district president Prakash Chandra Behera -...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Thursday arrested three government servants and a private person on corruption charges. In a press statement, the Vigilance said it has arrested GST officer Manas Ranjan Behera, OSD Narendra Kumar Chandrakar, revenue supervisor Ganesh Mallick and Khirod Rath, a private person...

Bhubaneswar: BJD leader Munna Khan Thursday dubbed Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab and cine star Sidhant Mohapatra, also a former parliamentarian, a "big zero in Odisha politics" after they joined the BJP in Delhi. Mahtab has represented the Cuttack seat as a BJD MP for six...

New Delhi: BJD founding member and six-time Cuttack Lok Sabha MP Bhartruhari Mahtab joined the BJP here on Thursday, dealing a big blow to the Odisha's ruling party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Mahtab, 67, joined the BJP in the presence of senior leaders...

Bhubaneswar: Former Union minister and Odisha Congress Campaign Committee chairman Bhakta Charan Das Thursday said the party will announce the first list of candidates for elections in Odisha by the first week of April. The newly appointed OPCC Campaign Committee chief said the party will...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janta Dal (BJD) in Odisha has fielded four women as candidates for assembly constituencies instead of their husbands who had either won or came second in the 2019 edition of elections. BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday announced...

Bhubaneswar: Kalinga Epigraphical Research Group (KERG) rediscovered an inscribed stone panel belonging to the ruling period of Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva near Champabati River, Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh. “This particular inscription mentions about the gifting of land and a perceptual lamp to the temple of Chodagangeswara...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police's Economic Offence Wing (EOW) has arrested an absconding woman allegedly involved in a cheating case of Rs 2crore from Mumbai, an official said Wednesday. The accused, Rammi Bhuyan alias Rammi Pusty, was apprehended by the sleuths from the Kalyan area of...

New Delhi: Odisha has agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Centre for implementing the PM SHRI school scheme, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday. With the coastal state agreeing to implement the scheme, West Bengal, Kerala and Delhi are the only states...