Violence was reported from some places of the north east state hours before the second phase of polling commenced as a BJP supporter was gunned down allegedly by a Congress worker and a crude bomb exploded outside the residence of an expelled saffron party leader, police said.
'Many veteran leaders in the Odisha BJP had met them, but their problems were never sorted out.'
The touring Bangladesh 'A' batsmen came up with a better show on the second day of their three-day match, posting 188 for three in their second innings after Ranji Trophy champions Karnataka scored 287 in their first essay and took a handy lead of 129 runs, in Mysuru, on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lit the 'Swarnim Vijay Mashaal' at the National War Memorial on Wednesday to mark the 50th-anniversary of the 1971 India-Pakistan war.
India's sprint sensation Hima Das doesn't want to be left behind in studies either and is juggling between training and board exams these days.
Huma Qureshi, Taapsee Pannu, Pulkit Samrat, Renuka Shahane, Bijoy Nambiar are among several Bollywood personalities to express concern over huge electricity bills.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday opened its account in the Manipur assembly by winning the bypoll in two constituencies of Thangmeiband and Thongju.
Because he knows Odisha; and Odisha knows him, observes Aditi Phadnis.
Results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admissions into prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) were declared this morning. Arpit Agarwal from Faridabad, Bijoy Kochar from Chandigarh and Nishant Kaushik from Bhilai secured the first, second and third places respectively.
In a revival of Maoist violence in junglemhal after a year-long lull, two Central Reserve Police Force personnel were shot dead by the ultras during an encounter in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Monday.
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Singer Lucky Ali, actor Neil Nitin Mukesh and director Bijoy Nambiar have been under the scanner ever since the song Ya Hussain in their film David was aired.
The duo are coming together again in director Boban Samuel's Romans.
The two main contenders for Khurai Assembly seat are the same and the only difference is they have switched sides this time. Nothing uncommon in the volatile politics of Manipur but will it bring a change of fortune?
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The restoration of the Chilahati-Haldibari railway link and signing of the pacts, providing for cooperation in areas of hydrocarbons, agriculture and textiles among others, came at a virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina.
The pro-talks faction of United Liberation Front of Assam on Saturday reacted sharply to the lynching of one of its members Bijoy Das at Bidyapara in Goalpara district of Assam on Friday and alleged hands of illegal migrant settlers from Bangladesh in the murder.
Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday took oath as the chief minister of Assam for the third consecutive term. Governor J B Patnaik administered the oath of office to Gogoi in a function at Darbar Hall of Raj Bhavan in presence of a host of dignitaries and the newly elected Congress legislators.Immediately after taking oath as the CM, Gogoi told the media that the top priority for the new government would be to expedite the development process in the state.
Three militants of an Al Qaeda-linked banned Islamic extremist outfit have been arrested in Bangladesh, including the mastermind of the murders of two prominent secular bloggers in the country this year.
With the felling of the mango tree at his home, Bijoy Venugopal lost more than just a tree.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi rejected Tarun Gogoi's offer to resign after the party's poor performance in the state. Anurag Kashyap reports.
Bijoy Thangaraj, 23, a software engineer working for the Honeywell Technology Solutions in Bangalore, won the award for his three minute video titled 'My Culture + Your Culture = World of Wonder', the State Department announced on Tuesday. Held by the state department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the contest was co-sponsored by the Adobe Youth Voices initiative of the Adobe Foundation.
A secular blogger in Bangladesh has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack since the start of the year, police say.
Bijoy Venugopal takes a long, wet drive through the hills of Tamil Nadu to meet the monsoon on its way out. The second part of the series.
Bijoy Venugopal takes a long, wet drive through the hills of Tamil Nadu to meet the monsoon on its way out.
The SP said as per preliminary inquiry, the four men had allegedly stolen two cows from a person named Sankat Tanti and were fleeing in an auto van which had no number plate.
Today, the Civic range starts from a whopping Rs 14 lakh for the base model and creeps to close to Rs 16 lakh for the automatic version.
Bijoy Shankar Hazarika, a surrendered militant of the United Liberation Front of Asom, was seriously injured and his wife Anita Barman was killed when unidentified gunmen fired at them in Ghograpar at Assam's Nalbari district on Sunday afternoon. The police suspect that personal rivalry may be the motive behind the attack on the surrendered militant. They are trying to ascertain the identity of the assailants.
Both of them were playing football in a ground and crossed the border inadvertently, when BDR caught them
Punjab pummelled Delhi by 10 wickets for their maiden win of the season on Friday while handing the hosts their first Ranji Trophy loss at home in five years.
The couple who allegedly bought the infant have been identified and the child will be rescued.
The officials are admitted in Regional Institute Of Medical Science Hospital and are out of danger.
Nipul Bora, also known as Bijoy Lahon alias Pulin Hazarika, was in charge of the ULFA's general headquarters in Bhutan.
The actor's car, allegedly being driven by him, had knocked down a motor-cycle-borne businessman in suburban Andheri late on Monday night.
The Congress party's traditional bastion among the tea workers in Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Tezpur Lok Sabha constituencies holds the key to the party's fortunes in the first phase polling on April 7 in Assam. The BJP has been trying hard to make inroads here.
Debutant medium pacer Murli Prasidh Krishna hogged the limelight on his first-class debut, claiming five wickets for 49 runs, as Ranji Trophy champions Karnataka dismissed star-studded Bangladesh 'A' for a paltry 158 on Tuesday, the opening day of their three-day game in Mysuru.
Patnaik's image of a "clean and honest" politician is widely regarded as the reason why he was able to withstand a spirited challenge thrown by the Bharatiya Janata Party, analysts say of perhaps the lone regional satrap who cannot even properly speak the language of his native state.
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