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Sunday, September 7, 2025
TopicNaveen Patnaik

Topic: Naveen Patnaik

Naveen Patnaik’s silence speaks the loudest in opposition’s boisterous attempts at unity

The Odisha CM said BJP's defeat in the polls reflected the ‘mood of the nation’ but clarified that he would stay away from both Congress and BJP.

Avni row still on, Maneka Gandhi now urges CM Naveen Patnaik to save Odisha’s elephants

Gandhi shoots off a letter to Naveen Patnaik weeks after seven pachyderms died of electrocution in Odisha’s Dhenkanal forest.

PM Modi says BJD’s commission culture is standing in the way of Odisha’s development

Corruption and slow decision making are 'synonymous' with the BJD government, he alleged.

Why the shrewd and wily Naveen Patnaik is cosying up to Narendra Modi and BJP

Naveen Patnaik is doing everything that runs counter to the opposition’s effort to forge an alliance against the BJP in 2019.

Legendary author V. S. Naipaul passes away, PM & political leaders condole demise

Naipaul was a recipient of the Man Booker Prize in 1971, a knighthood for services to literature in 1990, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.

Dalai Lama blames Nehru for Partition as the Congress loses out again

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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.

Naveen Patnaik’s political eye is so sharp he spotted Dharmendra Pradhan’s talent 18 yrs ago

Odisha CM Patnaik, who has never lost an election, is known to have a strong gut feeling and 'X-ray' eyes ‘Oh! I’ve got a problem,’...

Jay Panda quits BJD but road ahead unlikely to be smooth for him

Odisha MP was suspended from BJD in January this year; his ‘open flirting’ with BJP is believed to have irked CM Naveen Patnaik.

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

Why hasn’t India won Nobel Prize for literature after Independence? Quality of education

In Independent India, state policy has increasingly aggressively, if unintentionally, harmed talents and discouraged independent thought.

Punjab’s paddy farmers are staring at big losses. Why flood impact may spill out of India’s rice bowl

As devastated farmers begin to come to terms with the fallout, 4 lakh hectares of land under paddy cultivation across state is flooded. Punjab is among the biggest contributors to PDS.

Army chief weighs in on theaterisation, says it is inevitable and need of the hour

New Delhi: Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi has strongly backed the idea of theaterisation, saying it is inevitable and the need of the hour. Speaking...

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?