Kolkata: 10/3/24:Popular actress Rachana Banerjee, who had acted in several Odia, Bengali, and Hindi movies, will fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Hooghly in neighboring West Bengal as a Trinamool Congress candidate. Notably, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee recently featured in Rachna Banerjee-hosted reality show Didi No 1 Season 9. The 49-year-old had become a household name in ...

Bhubaneswar:7/3/2 4: The speculation about an alliance between the BJP and the BJD before the simultaneous elections in Odisha further gained momentum as two prominent BJD leaders left for New Delhi on a special flight on Thursday evening. According to sources, 5T chairman VK Pandian and ruling BJD’s organisational secretary Pranab Prakash Das left for the national capital to discuss ...

Dhenkanal: 4/3/24:Former Odisha Minister Nabin Chandra Narayan Das and several other leaders Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan in Dhenkanal on Monday. Das, who had served as Panchayati Raj as well as Education and Commerce Minister, recently resigned from Congress. He was also the chairman of Dhenkanal Municipality. ...

Newdelhi:3/3/24:Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that the BJP has announced candidates for some of the Lok Sabha seats and it will be announcing the rest of the seats in the coming days. Mr Modi has congratulated all those who have been nominated as BJP  candidates and also wished them the very best. In a social media post, the Prime ...

Bhubaneswar: 21/2/24:Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi, who was expelled from Biju Janata Dal (BJD) four years ago, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday ahead of the twin elections in Odisha. Panigrahi joined the saffron party in the presence of BJP’s Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal and other senior leaders at a special function held at the state party headquarters ...

Bhubaneswar: 20/2/24:All three candidates were on Tuesday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha. Two BJD candidates Debashish Samantaray and Subhasish Khuntia, and BJP candidate and Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw were elected unopposed to the Upper House of the Parliament from Odisha. Returning Officer Abanikanta Patnaik announced the names of the elected persons after the deadline for withdrawal of ...

Newdelhi:20/2/24:Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Chairman of the High-Level Committee (HLC) on One Nation One Election, and its members namely Shri N. K. Singh and Shri Sanjay Kothari today continued their interactions with political parties to examine the issue relating to holding of simultaneous elections in the country and make recommendations thereon. As part of this, a delegation from Bharatiya Janata ...

Newdelhi:13/2/24:Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party and former party president Sonia Gandhi will be filing her nomination for the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Wednesday. Ms. Gandhi, the MP from Rae Bareli, is currently serving her fifth term in Lok Sabha, and this will be her first stint in the Upper House. Her decision to opt out of Lok Sabha ...

Bhubaneswar: Congress on Tuesday withdrew the suspension of Barabati-Cuttack legislator Mohammed Moquim and former Deputy Leader of CLP Chiranjib Biswal. The party also revoked the expulsion of former MLA Krushna Chandra Sagaria. Odisha Congress in-charge Ajoy Kumar made these announcements while addressing a presser here. This came a day after Moquim and Biswal met Ajoy Kumar in Bhubaneswar. “We should see ...

Bhubaneswar: 27/9/23:Former BJD MP from Kalahandi Arka Keshari Deo along with his wife Malabika joined the BJP in the state party office here on Wednesday. BJP Odisha President Manmohan Samal, Kalahandi MP Basant Panda and MLA Pradeepta Nayak welcomed both Arka Keshari Deo and his wife Malabika into the party fold. Arka Keshari joined Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in 2013 ...