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BJD lifts expulsion order of Umakanta Samantaray
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Sep 14:
Odisha’s ruling party-BJD today revoked expulsion order of Umakanta Samantaray from the party, BJD sources said.
Samantaray, who is the sitting MLA from Satyabadi Assembly constituency…
Tathagata alleges corruption in Water Resources Dept, targets Odisha CM
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Sep 14:
Biju Janata Dal MP Tathagata Satpathy’s front page editorial in Odia daily Dharitri that criticised his party boss and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over alleged corruption and…
Odisha CM treated Mahanadi as BJD property, alleges KV Singh Deo
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Sep 13:
A day after Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik sought opinion from public, organisations and political parties over Mahanadi water dispute, Leader of BJP legislature party in Odisha…
Ahead of panchayat polls, Odisha Congress to form election committees
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Sep 8:
Odisha unit of Congress today announced to form a Panchayat Polls Committee that will spearhead the preparations for the upcoming panchayat polls scheduled to be held across the state in…
Political parties in Odisha begin war of words over Polavaram project
Bhubaneswar, Sep 8:
A day after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the Centre would bear all expenses for the construction of the Polavaram project, the three major political parties of Odisha on Thursday entered into a mudslinging…
Odisha HC grants interim protection to P’khemundi MLA
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Paralakhemundi, Sep 7:
The Orissa High Court today granted interim protection to Paralakhemundi MLA K Surya Rao in the Parala mass suicide case.
The court granted interim protection to Rao against arrest…
No-trust motion against Odisha civic body chairperson rejected;BJD retains post
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Jajpur, Sep 7:
In a major relief for Odisha’s ruling party, the no-confidence motion against Vyasanagar Municipality chairperson Sabita Rout was rejected as BJD councillors abstained from voting on the motion…
BJD gets its Vyasanagar house in order before trust vote
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Sep 6:
After suffering embarrassments in municipal trust votes in Odisha’s Keonjhar and Anandpur, yet another disaster for Biju Janata Dal was averted today following intervention of party chief…
Pradhan takes a swipe at Odisha govt’s ‘teacher on call’ policy
Bhubaneswar, Sep 5:
Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday took a jibe at the Odisha government over the 'teacher on call' issue.
"While there are a large number of vacancies of teachers in the state, the state…
Naveen copies schemes of Center, alleges Odisha BJP
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Sep 4:
A day after Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the Biju Kanya Ratna Yojana, Odisha unit of BJP today accused the Biju Janata Dal led State Government of copying schemes of the…