Congress’ cup of sorrows
Priyanka was inducted into the party to revitalise the moribund organisation. But she frittered away her advantages with juvenile antics about challenging the Prime Minister in Varanasi In the rough and tumble of the country’s longest election season, politicians often make statements for mileage. Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s exaggerated claims of...
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Change dynamics in Ladakh
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China’s iron-clad loyalty
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Existential threat to democracy
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Preparing for cyber war
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India's war against financial apartheid
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Hundreds boycott voting in 4th phase
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Three Jajpur polling officials suspended
30 April 2019 | PNS
EVMs damaged at polling booths
Voters allegedly vandalised Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) at two different polling booths in the State during the fourth and last phase of the elections on Monday. An EVM was damaged by a voter at booth no. 173 in the Dharmasala area of Jajpur district. Another voter committed the same act at booth...
Cong worker stabbed to death in Paradip
A Congress worker was stabbed to death by an unidentified miscreant at Noliasahi near Gadakujang under the Balikuda-Erasama Assembly constituency on Monday. The deceased was identified as Lachman Behera. According to sources, Behera was returning home after casting his vote at the village school polling station at around 4 pm when he...
BJD workers attacked at polling centre
Tension prevailed in the Sukinda area in the district on Monday as a clash broke out between workers of two political parties at a polling centre in Gobardhanpur. According to sources, violence erupted in Booth nos. 10 and 11 at Gobardhanpur of the Sukinda area after workers of the BJD were...
Mass sacred thread fest held in Puri
Eleven Brahmin boys wore the sacred thread near the Jagannath Temple on Monday. All the boys who were from poor families were between the age groups of 13 to 15 years. The UgrataraYubak Sangha organised the ceremony in front of Ugratara temple near the west gate of the Jagannath Temple. The boys...
NHRC asks M’giri SP to appear before it
The National Human Rights Commission has issued summons to the Malkangiri Superintendent of Police to appear personally before the commission on April 29. Earlier, civil society organisation Human Rights Watch secretary Sangita Swain had alleged a tribal Ramchandra Muduli of village Ramgarh under Chitrakonda police station in Malkangiri was severely injured...
2,033 decimal land of Naveen Niwas in dispute!
Naveen Niwas, the residence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik located in Bhubaneswar, has been dragged into controversy once again. A PIL filed in the High Court by the Bharatiya Vikash Parishad (BVP)’s Surendra Panigrahi has alleged that Patnaik and his sister Gita Mehta have possessed 2,033 decimal of Government land illegally....
Maoists murder youth in B’ngir
A group of Maoists murdered a youth at Khuripani village in the Khaprakhol area of Balangir district on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Trilochan Taria. The Red rebels belonging to the Bargarh-Balangir-Mahasamund Division of the CPI(Maoist) killed Taria on suspicion that he was a police informer about their movements. According...
