Sujatha Karthikeyan, a 2000-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Odisha cadre and wife of IAS officer-turned-politician VK Pandian, has taken voluntary retirement from ...

Naveen Patnaik came out in strong defence of his close aide VK Pandian ...

Pandian, who was in the line of fire after humiliating poll debacle of the BJD in Odisha, announced his retirement from active politics in June last year. Pandian had joined the BJD on 28 November ...

In an oblique reference to former bureaucrat-turned-BJD leader V K Pandian, Samantaray blamed Patnaik’s “advisor” for the party’s about-turn on the Bill. Some other party leaders have also targeted ...

Former Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday came out in defence of his former aide VK Pandian, saying he should not be criticised or blamed for anything related to the ...

Story continues below this ad Though Behera refused to take any specific names when asked who he was referring to as an “outside force”, it was seen as an oblique reference to V K Pandian, Patnaik’s ...

Karthikeyan is married to former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik's associate VK Pandian. Sujata Karthikeyan and VK Pandian were often referred to as the power couple of Odisha during the BJD’s ...

Odisha Congress chief Bhakta Charan Das alleges undue influence by former IAS officer VK Pandian following Sujata Karthikeyan's rapid VRS approval, hinting at a covert BJD-BJP alliance. Political ...

In a startling revelation that could send tremors through Odisha’s political landscape, senior BJD MP Debashish Samantaray on Saturday launched a scathing attack, implicitly targeting ‘Chief Advisor’ ...

Days after the BJD suffered a shock defeat in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha, former IAS officer and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik's key aide VK Pandian has announced that he is ...