Baijayant Panda

East states Lok Sabha Election voting Updates: 76.59% voting recorded in West Bengal, 64.05% in Odisha till 7 pm

East states Lok Sabha Election voting LIVE updates: Amid clashes, 52.91 percent polling was reported in West Bengal till 3 pm. In Odisha, the polling percentage was 35.79 percent.

Lok Sabha polls Phase 4 today: Odisha's Kendrapara to witness prestige battle as BJP seeks to breach BJD bastion

The entire state of Odisha is keenly glued to the pulsating build-up in Kendrapara, where the BJP is taking on the BJP in a high-stakes battle.

Odisha elections 2019: Naveen Patnaik's BJD faces massive challenge from BJP in crucial coastal part of state

The 480-kilometre-stretch of the Bay of Bengal has an intimate association with the history, social life, culture as well as economy of Odisha. The coastline also has a huge significance for the politics of the state

In Odisha, politically-owned media houses sing to tunes of patron parties as objectivity takes backseat in poll discourse

With owners of leading media houses fighting the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Odisha, not only truth is killed, but even basic neutrality is not maintained in news reporting

BJP, two Assembly seats and exodus of MPs: Naveen Patnaik faces triple poll challenge in Odisha

Summers in Odisha are harsh, and this summer especially so with Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly elections that look to challenge Naveen like never before. Yet it would appear that this is a challenge Naveen has carefully prepared himself for in the past two years.

Defections ahead of LS polls: Danish Ali joins BSP, Shyama Charan Gupta leaves for SP, Balabhadra Majhi goes to BJP

Defections have long since been a poll strategy, yet the days leading up to the 2019 Lok Sabha election seem particularly populated with political leaders, big and small, leaving their party and moving to another.

Mamata and Naveen Patnaik have handed significant number of tickets to women, but battle for representation rages on

A day after Naveen Patnaik's BJD declared that it would allot 33 percent of the party's tickets to women, Mamata Banerjee's TMC assigned 41 percent of the party's Lok Sabha election tickets to women candidates.

BJP, Congress now have new faces as key spokespersons, media panelists: Baijayant Panda, Shama Mohamed among anointed

In the current pre-poll scenario, a number of new faces can be seen representing some of the major political parties as spokespersons. While some are young newcomers to the political scene, others are veterans who have switched over to peddle new lines in new roles.

BJD ignoring national interest to oppose BJP, says Baijayant Panda; claims Naveen Patnaik govt supporting goons

Baijayant Panda was suspended from the BJD for alleged anti-party activities in January last year. Later on 28 May, 2018, Panda ended his 18 years of association with BJD by quitting the party. He has now joined the BJP.

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra not booked for comments on rosogollas, but for vulgar statement about Odiya culture, says Odisha IGP

Journalist Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, in the midst of controversy over his remarks on Odisha's Konark Sun Temple, was arrested on Tuesday moments after he tendered an unconditional apology before a House Committee of the state Assembly.