Niranjan Patnaik requests Jamir to visit Malkangiri

Describing the BJD's Swabhiman rally in Delhi as an unnecessary gimmick, senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik on Wednesday asked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to either learn Odia or quit the State. It is ironical that a Chief Minister, and ...

Senior Congress leader Niranjan Patnaik has urged Union Minister of State for Sports Jitendra Singh to introduce the Sports Bill in Parliament urgently and hand over the management of the sports to professional managers to stop the rot from ...

Former PCC president Niranjan Patnaik has called for an urgent need to expose the political-bureaucratic-business nexus in the mining scam. Reiterating his earlier demand for a CBI probe into the mining scam of Odisha, Patnaik said that the scam ...

Asking Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to explain role of ruling BJD leaders in multi-crore chitfund scam in Odisha, Congress today alleged that the police was being "soft" in its attitude towards the culprits. "The state government should have no problem with ...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi today appointed senior party leader Jayadeb Jena as the new chief of Odisha Congress ending months of speculation about change of guard in the state leadership.

Congress Committee (PCC) president Niranjan Patnaik on Sunday welcomed Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's announcement of formation of a committee headed by Chief Economic Advisor to Government of India Raghuram Rajan to establish new criteria ...

Pradesh Congress Committee president Niranjan Patnaik on Sunday questioned effective implementation of various welfare schemes in Malkangiri district and said condition of the district is horrible due to lack of political will to develop this ...

Expressing concern over the misuse of central funds in Odisha, a delegation led by state Congress president Niranjan Patnaik met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek a need-based financial package for the state, party leaders said here Saturday.

Report by Odisha Diary bureau, Bhubaneswar: Former PCC chief Niranjan Patnaik writes to Kapil Sibal to amend Article 173 of the Constitution to make it mandatory for MLAs to read...