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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicBiju Janata Dal

Topic: Biju Janata Dal

Naveen Patnaik’s BJD to field 27% OBC candidates in Odisha panchayat polls

BJD's move came three days after a delegation of its MPs met Home Minister Amit Shah & submitted a memorandum seeking legislation to raise quota for OBCs in the state.

Nobody should be arrested basis what they think, says Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo

Speaking at Democracy Wall, the Biju Janata Dal leader said he strongly opposed criminal defamation.

Congress accuses Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik of betraying his people in Rajya Sabha

Patnaik & his party Biju Janata Dal were denounced for making false claims of disassociating themselves from Congress & BJP.

Suspended Odisha MP Baijayant Panda resigns from BJD

Panda said that he was deeply hurt to find out that many BJP leaders were restrained from attending the funeral service of his industrialist father. 

On Camera

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.