Rajeev Deshpande
BJP has the edge on BJD in Odisha’s Lok Sabha seats while the Assembly election is a closer contest than expected, reports
Dharmendra Pradhan, contesting from Sambalpur in Odisha, tells why he gets a whiff of change
In a play on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s “dual engine sarkar”, the BJD veteran sought the support of voters for the “dual shanko” (conch shells)
BJP wary of endorsing Pandian as Naveen Patnaik successor, confident of good Lok Sabha and Assembly showing
Veteran BJD leader and Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, setting off talk of whether the MP would switch sides to BJP.
The discovery last month of a set of ancient ruins in Bhubaneswar and the damage done to it raise questions about how development work is undertaken around heritage sites