Next 3 days crucial for BJP in Odisha
Top BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are set to visit Odisha for crucial pre-election activities. They will release the party's manifesto and engage with local intellectuals. These visits aim to enhance the BJP's electoral prospects and address issues like the preservation of Odia culture and proper utilisation of...
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Bijay suspends campaign due to heatstroke
Congress leader and former Odisha Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik, who is contesting the upcoming elections from the Paralakhemundi Assembly seat, is taking a break from campaign after suffering from heatstroke. In a post on his X handle along with a video message, Patnaik said he is down with fever due...
Tobacco control: Agenda for India on harm reduction
In a recent submission, Lakshmi Ramamurthy, Trustee, Centre for Public Policy Research, shared her thoughts on how tobacco harm can be curbed at a policy level in the country. She pointed out that India, in its act of imposing a ban on e-cigarettes in 2019, failed to make the distinction between...
Dissidence grows over BJP nominee choice
Dissidence has been growing in the BJP cadre in Balikuda area after the party gave ticket to one Satya Sarathi Mohanty for the Balikuda- Erasama Assembly seat for this election. As many as six saffron party leaders were aspirants for party ticket from the seat and they have been openly revolting...
3 including 2 women die as truck hits auto
Three persons, including two women, were killed and eight others sustained grievous injuries when an auto-rickshaw by which they were travelling had a head-on collision with a speeding truck near Jodenga under the Raighar police station in Nabarangpur district on Sunday. The identities of the deceased and injured were yet to...
Iran-Israel conflicts: Challenges for Indian diplomacy
West Asia is in news, as ever. This time Iran and Israel are in the battlefield. Iran's attack on Israel early Sunday came in response to what it is discussed was an Israeli strike on Iran's Consulate in Syria on April 1. Israel’s military chief asserted that his country would...
Challenges for Indian Diplomacy
This unprecedented turn of the shadow war into real war between the two power houses in West Asia puts Indian diplomacy to litmus test. As expressed by Bhopinder Singh, in his article, the enduring ties between India and Iran, in The Pioneer dated, April 19, 2024, “The template of ‘strategic independence’ (used in...
Ex-MLA sells land to meet daughter’s poll expenses!
To contest the poll is certainly not the cup of tea of a person with poor financial strength as these days elections have become highly expensive, at times running into crores. As a matter of fact, a former MLA has had to sell his ancestral property to meet his daughter’s poll...
