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Bhubaneswar: The two-week-long talks over the possible pre-poll alliance between the ruling BJD and the opposition BJP in Odisha broke down, with both parties separately announcing decisions to go solo in the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. The deliberations on stitching a tie-up between...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Friday announced that it will field candidates in all 21 Lok Sabha and 147 assembly seats in the state. The declaration came hours after the opposition BJP said that it would go solo in the upcoming elections, which...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal Friday said that his party will contest alone in both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state. Samal Thanked BJD for extending support to Modi Government in the Centre, but announced on his X (formerly Twitter) handle...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday night in an excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said. The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant protection...

New Delhi: The Election Commission Thursday made public a fresh data set of electoral bonds, including their alpha-numeric numbers that can help match their purchasers with the political parties that received the funds. Two separate lists of the donors and the recipients were published by...

New Delhi: The State Bank of India told the Supreme Court Thursday it has provided all details of the electoral bonds in its possession to the Election Commission. In a compliance affidavit filed in the apex court, the SBI chairman said the complete bank account...

New Delhi: Keeping an accused in custody without trial is akin to detention which hampers liberty, the Supreme Court said Wednesday while deprecating the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) practice of filing supplementary chargesheets in money laundering cases to defeat the accused's right of getting default bail....

Chennai: The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu Wednesday released the list of candidates for 21 seats for the April 19 Lok Sabha polls, retaining among other sitting MPs, Kanimozhi, TR Baalu and A Raja. It has allotted the rest 18 seats to its allies--Congress, Left...

New Delhi: Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, and sea level rise all reached record highs in 2023, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released Tuesday. The report, titled "State of the Global Climate 2023", confirmed that...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday directed the State Bank of India to make a complete disclosure of all details related to electoral bonds, including the unique bond numbers that would disclose the link between the buyer and the recipient political party, by March 21....