Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) confirmed on Tuesday that its chief and former Odisha Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik, will participate in the upcoming meeting on delimitation and electoral ...

On the “voter card fraud” that Trinamool Congress flagged first with a list of duplicate EPIC numbers, the party was supported by Congress, BJD and other parties which staged a walkout in ...

New Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has appointed the bulk of his shadow cabinet team - with few surprises among his chosen lieutenants. Mr Duncan Smith had moved overnight to appoint former ...

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha crime branch on Thursday arrested the BJD’s state youth wing vice-president Soumya Shankar Chakra in connection with alleged irregularities in the ...

An underground economy built around the Kenyans ghost-writing essays for more privileged college students is brought into the light in Eloïse King’s “The Shadow Scholars,” a documentary ...

In the clearest sign yet of how much the Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) political position has shifted since it lost power to the BJP in last year’s elections, party president and former Chief Minister ...

BJD youth wing's vice-president, Soumya Sankar Chakra, has been arrested in connection with a multi-crore mineral transport fraud involving significant financial irregularities in Gandhamardan ...

The BJD has consistently claimed that it maintains equidistance from both the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A. bloc, although its position shifted after the 2024 elections.

Bhubaneswar, Mar 12 (PTI) The ruling BJP in Odisha on Wednesday criticised the Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for getting closer with the DMK and giving consent to participate in the proposed ...

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Bahinipati, a senior Congress legislator, was on Tuesday suspended from the assembly for seven days for 'misconduct and unruly behaviour' following a scuffle between members of the ruling BJP and ...

From an independent audit of the election process to proposing citizen-led poll monitoring, the BJD proposed a range of solutions to the Election Commission, aiming to dispel concerns about ...