Tag: Odisha
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Odisha: Poll official suspended for checking PM Modi’s chopper
April 16 order issued by EC says Mohammed Mohsin, a 1996-batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, did not act in conformity with the EC's instructions concerning SPG protectees
April 18, 2019 -
Naxals kill woman poll official in Odisha’s Kandhamal, Naveen Patnaik expresses grief
The officer, Sanjukta Digal, was on her way to a polling booth when she was shot dead by the Naxals in Balandapada village under Gochhapada police station limits.
April 17, 2019 -
Discrimination on basis of region, caste only achievement of Cong, BJD: PM Modi in Odisha
The Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency will go to the polls in the third phase on April 23.
April 16, 2019 -
Pradhan promises dal, salt with rice under PDS; targets Naveen
Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Choudwar will have a metro railway, he said, before stating that Choudwar will be built as an industrial town with the revival of Odisha Textile Mill, Titlagarh Paper Mill etc. and Rs 1000 crore will be invested.
April 14, 2019 -
Where is the double engine of the BJP: Naveen
Seeking votes in the name of Modi alone will not help as Modi cannot be the PM as well as the CM.
April 13, 2019 -
Congress manifesto promises loan waiver, job for every family in Odisha
On the farming sector, the manifesto, apart from promising waiver of crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh per family within the 10 days of government formation, held out special financial assistance of Rs 10,000 per year to farmers for three years and that the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy per quintal would be hiked to Rs 2,600.
April 7, 2019 -
Amit Shah releases nine-point manifesto for Odisha
After completing 10+2 exam, meritorious students will be given two-wheelers, the manifesto said.
April 7, 2019 -
PM Modi slams Congress, BJD in Odisha for keeping people poor
Addressing an election rally in Odisha’s Kalahandi, Modi said that both the grand old party and the state government led by BJD "conspired to keep the poor, poor”.
April 2, 2019 -
Odisha poll results will bewilder everybody, says PM Modi
Many sitting MPs and MLAs of the ruling BJD have switched over to the BJP after being denied re-nomination by their party.
March 31, 2019 -
‘Jay’ Panda faces toughest test of his 2 decade old political career
Now, with a new party, its lotus symbol, and newfangled cadres, it remains to be seen whether Panda will manage to achieve the hat-trick of victories from the politically sensitive Kendrapara Lok Sabha seat.
March 24, 2019 -
Patnaik looks West
Recent developments cannot but be unnerving for the BJD, not least the impressive performance of the BJP in western Odisha in the 2017 panchayat elections.
March 19, 2019 -
Visual narration of Odia poem Pakaana Boma wins hearts
US-based Kathak dancer Anindita Neogy Anaam and Bhubaneswar-based storyteller and content writer Prachitara have teamed up for the visual narration of Prasanna Kumar Mishra’s 1982 poem Pakaana Boma
March 16, 2019 -
Odisha shows the way
The matter has been hanging in the air for as long as it has, and the political class must now give it to Odisha that it has shown the way to parties that remain ever so divided ~ and often hypocritical ~ on this count.
March 13, 2019 -
Baijayant Panda likely to join BJP in New Delhi today
The former Kendrapara MP reportedly managed to finally get the nod with the help of a few industrialist "friends"
March 4, 2019 -
Freebies compromise good governance
Recently, the government at the Centre unveiled a raft of budget sweeteners for farmers, the middle class and even cows.
March 3, 2019 -
Wiser counsel prevails in RS
Technically, non-passage of the motion of thanks in the Rajya Sabha does not affect the life of the government, which is probably why the BJP didn’t make any effort on the issue.
February 13, 2019 -
Naveen Patnaik scrambles to distance himself from Bengal developments, CBI
Says nobody from TMC has been in touch with him for almost one year, and whatever the BJD said with regards to the CBI-police face-off was entirely in the context of Odisha
February 5, 2019