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Bhubaneswar, July 5: Silence rules the roost in Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Leaders of the regional party that ruled the state for an unstinted 24 years are maintaining a discreet silence since they lost power to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on June 4. So far, neither the BJD president Naveen Patnaik nor any […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 24: Speculations are doing the rounds that all is not well in the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) headed by five-time chief minister Naveen Patnaik. Also, rumours have been coming thick and fast that might disintegrate if Naveen does not mend his behavior and trust someone, especially a person with political understanding, to run […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 16: Former Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik will be the Leader of Opposition in the Odisha Assembly. The BJD Legislature Party Meeting which was held on Wednesday at the Sankha Bhawan elected the five-time Chief Minister as the leader of BJD Legislature Party leader. The meeting was chaired by Patnaik. Senior […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 18: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and several newly elected MLAs took oath as member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly on Tuesday here. They were administered the oath by pro-tem Speaker Ranendra Pratap Swain. The Assembly has been put under a three-tier security system for the three-day oath-taking […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 17: The Odisha Legislative Assembly has been put under a three-tier security system ahead of the three-day oath-taking ceremony of the newly elected MLAs scheduled to begin on Tuesday, June 18. All the newly elected MLAs will take oath between June 18 and 19, 2014. Later, the election for the Speaker will be […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 14: As it appears, Odisha’s new CM Mohan Charan Majhi is bent on shaking the shackles of bureaucratic legacy of his predecessor Naveen Patnaik. The excessive “excessive bureaucratic influence” on the governance system is beginning to crumble if the indications of Majhi’s two-day works are any indication. The CM, who took oath of […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 12: Four-time MLA and tribal leader Mohan Charan Majhi was on Wednesday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Odisha at a ceremony here attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several Union Ministers and Chief Ministers. This is the first time that a BJP Government has been formed in Odisha. The event was […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 11: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today announced veteran tribal leader Mohan Majhi as new Chief Minister of Odisha, ending days of speculation after the party’s victory in the recent State Assembly election Singh also announced the names of Prabhati Parida and KV Singh Deo as the Deputy Chief Ministers of the State. The […]
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New Delhi, June 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assigned portfolios to his 71 Council of Ministers, a day after taking oath of office for a historic third consecutive term. The new Union Cabinet held its first meeting under the chairmanship of PM Modi at the PM’s residence in the evening following which the […]
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Bhubaneswar, June 9: Bureaucrat-turned-BJD leader VK Pandian on Sunday announced retirement from active politics amid a section of party leaders and workers expressing resentment against Pandian following the party’s poll defeat in the State. “My only intent was to help Naveen Patnaik,” the BJD leader, who is a close aide of Naveen Patnaik, said in […]
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