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BHUBANESWAR: A significant percentage of Odia population living abroad may not vote this time too. Because, the logistics for doing so still does not work out for them. Only 196 Odias living in other countries have enrolled as overseas/NRI voters for this Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state. Gender wise, 156 of them are male and 40 female. According to the World Odisha Society (WOS), which is the highest and apex organisation of the Odia diaspora worldwide, there are over a million Odi
HYDERABAD: Police on Wednesday arrested five NRIs, including a German native, after they crashed their Benz car into a transformer in an inebriated state. The police are also considering taking action against the bar where all the accused had been drinking until 3 am before the accident. The accused have been identified as Ethen Venkatesh, Avinash Chalasani, Sasha, Maximilian Henry Radinger and Sai Priyatham Kasam. Nobody suffered injuries in the accident, but the driver, Venkat, had a BAC (Bloo
VIJYAWADA: YSRC general secretary Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy has urged the people to be aware of the nefarious designs of the TDP and report to police any instance of NRIs affiliated to the TDP distributing money to the voters. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Sajjala said the NRI cell of the TDP had been roped in to pump money and buy the voters. The NRIs are openly saying that votes should be purchased. They are roaming in the villages to attract voters. People should be wary of such persons an
CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab Congress chief Mohinder Singh Kaypee on Monday ditched the party and entered the Lok Sabha fray from Jalandhar on SAD ticket, taking the number of turncoats in the NRI heartland to three. BJP nominee Sushil Kumar Rinku (former AAP leader) and AAPs Pawan Kumar Tinu (ex-SAD leader) are the two other defectors. In addition to them, in the fray is an outsider - Congress candidate (former CM Charanjit Singh Channi who earlier contested from Chamkaur Sahib Assembly constituen