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New Delhi: Ahead of the Union Budget 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emerged on Saturday carrying her Budget papers once again in a traditional red “bahi khata” (cloth ledger) similar to last year. She was photographed in a…

Actor-politician Sunny Deol has been declared “missing” in posters that have surfaced at a few public places in Pathankot in Punjab. “Gumshuda ki Talash (search for missing), MP Sunny Deol,” say the posters that were also spotted at the…

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday made it clear that he won't allow the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be implemented in Odisha. The CM told this to a delegation of the Chauda Mahala Muslim Jamat from Bhadrak,…

New Delhi: The much-talked-about death of Haridaspur Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO) Smitarani Biswal reverberated in Parliament on Friday with Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka demanding a CBI probe into it. Raising the issue during the Zero…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday was all praise for Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for maintaining discipline in Parliament when in session. Addressing the 250th session of the Rajya Sabha,…

Bhubaneswar: National Heritage Festival tag to Cuttack Bali Jatra and a direct flight between Bhubaneswar and Dubai are among the 10 demands that BJD would raise during winter session of Parliament, beginning Monday. Addressing…

New Delhi: BJD Rajya Sabha member Sasmit Patra on Tuesday urged the Centre to revise coal royalty for Odisha from 14% to 20%. In a special mention notice in Parliament, Patra said the Centre, instead of revising the coal royalty, had hiked…

New Delhi: "Aspirational, structural, transformational, inclusive and sustainable." This how BJP's Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi described the Union Budget in Parliament on Monday. She said it is a reflection of an extraordinary balance…

People have been hailing the fiery speech by Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra in Lok Sabha recently. Taking part in the thanksgiving motion on the President’s speech, Mahua had pointed out ‘7 early signs of Fascism in India’ in a scathing critique…

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the first Economic Survey of the re-elected Narendra Modi government in Parliament on Thursday, a day ahead of the tabling of the Union Budget for 2019-20. The survey, projecting the state…