Sunday 5 April '09
The competition among political parties in Orissa over cheap rice hotted up on Saturday with the Congress.....Saturday 4 April '09
Naveen Patnaik owes much of his political success to the stature of his father, former chief minister Biju Patnaik, but theirs is by no means the only political dynasty in Orissa......Saturday
4 April '09The Third Front rally in Orissa was reduced to a sideshow with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar skipping the rally, citing a technical snag in his aircraft.....Saturday
4 April '09The victims of the Kandhamal riots may now be able to cast their votes with the district administration making arrangements for pick-and-drop facilities.....Friday
3 April '09Former union steel minister Braja Kishore Tripathy has resigned from the party, protesting against Patnaik's decision to drop him from candidate list.Friday
3 April '09Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday dismissed the Third Front as “momentary” and said that creation of such groups ahead of the elections...Wednesday
1 April '09The Christian community here as well as political parties have condemned the BJP’s decision to nominate Kandhamal riot-accused Manoj Pradhan....Wednesday
1 April '09More than 20 persons were feared killed and over 200 injured after a tornado wreaked devastation in 11 villages of five gram panchayats of coastal Kendrapara district.....Tuesday
31 March '09Ruling out any possible post-poll alliance with the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Monday said perhaps his party.....Monday
30 March '09With elections to the State assembly as well the Lok Sabha less than a month away, the Maoists are becoming active in Orissa.Saturday
28 March '09With the Kandhamal communal violence in the backdrop, Biju Janata Dal chief and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik...Thursday
26 March '09The pre-electoral mess in the Orissa Congress got messier on Wednesday when its youth wing president, Rohit Pujari, quit the party protesting inequitable distribution of tickets....Wednesday
25 March '09BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati kicked off her party’s electoral campaign in Orissa with the promise of reservations to the Dalits.....Sunday
22 March '09With barely two days left for the filing of nomination papers to begin for the first phase of elections in Orissa on April 16, the BJD on Saturday could not finalise its seat-sharing arrangement....Friday
20 March '09Suspected Maoists today shot dead an RSS leader who was arrested in connection with the anti-Christian violence...Friday
20 March '09In a major blow to the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa, the chief electoral officer in the state has ordered withdrawal of all banners...Wednesday
18 March '09A day after BJP leader Sushma Swaraj accused Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for failing to save Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati....Tuesday
17 March '09With “betrayal” as its running theme, the BJP on Monday kickstarted a low-key campaign for the elections to 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly seats in Orissa....Monday
16 March '09Promising subsidised rice seems to a prominent theme of election manifestoes in the state.....Sunday
15 March '09The BJP is likely to project MP Kharavela Swain or leader of BJP Legislature Party Bishwabhushan Harichandan as its chief ministerial candidate for the coming Assembly polls.....Saturday
14 March '09The uncertainty over Wednesday’s trust vote in the Orissa Assembly continued to drag on as Governor Murlidhar Bhandare remained undecided over the issue.Tuesday
10 March '09It's 11-year alliance with the BJD dead, a bitter BJP is calling in its heaviest hitter to mount an aggressive attack on “most dependable ally” turned “betrayer” Naveen Patnaik......Tuesday
10 March '09Politics makes strange bedfellows. Nowhere is it truer than in Orissa where known Naveen Patnaik-baiter Bijoy Mohapatra has been forced to ally with his bête-noire just to stay afloat.....Tuesday
10 March '09When Naveen Patnaik dropped a bombshell on BJP Rajya Sabha MP and L K Advani’s emissary Chandan Mitra on the evening of March 7 by offering the saffron party....Monday
9 March '09While L K Advani and other senior party leaders are still struggling to understand the BJD’s sudden volte face, state BJP members say it was Pyarimohan Mohapatra, the 69-year-old BJD Rajya Sabha MP, who, despite an ailing heart, worked hard to steer the BJD away from the BJP to new allies like Prakash Karat and Sharad Pawar.
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