Since BJD's 2024 defeat in the state & LS elections, leaders have been questioning Patnaik over VK Pandian's role, party's policy in its current Oppn position & now, the waqf bill U-turn.
Trouble started for her just ahead of assembly polls last year, when ECI ordered her transfer from Mission Shakti after BJP delegation sought the same for 'misuse of public office'.
Bhubaneswar/Kendrapara/Sambalpur: In November last year, when V.K. Pandian — former private secretary to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and a key confidant — quit...
CM Naveen Patnaik has receded into the background, while a band of swashbuckling IAS officers has taken centrestage not only in managing state affairs but also in political events.
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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