The Year That Was for Orissa

The year of Christian era that just ended gave Orissa a lot of frustration but this brave soil not only withstood that but also made marks in the field of letters, science and sports. It was a year of bad days and bright days. Our team recapitulates some of these.
JANUARY
03: A postal employee received bleeding [...]

WHAT A SESSION WAS THAT !

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Bhubaneswar, Dec .25
The beginning list of its business had to collapse by the clamant call of the opposition for debate on collapse of law and order in the State.
The Orissa Legislative Assembly had to wind up its last Session six days ahead of schedule. And what a session was that!
A lady IAS [...]

FIRST VOICE FOR CHILD RIGHTS COMMISSION

OM Bureau
Bhubaneswar
The Human Rights Commission is not enough. Children here are for a ‘Child Rights Commission’. The first voice in this regard was heard at the consultative meet of Legislators on Global Movement for Children (GMfC),jointly organized by Unicef and Cerebrum. Adyasa Das, a small girl, urged upon Chief Minister .Navin Patnaik to give a [...]

Societal approval not a must for marriage

Bhubaneswar Bureau
CUTTACK, Dec.19, 2002:
If two majors marry, that cannot be nullified because their family or caste or community refuses to approve, ruled Orissa High Court in a landmark judgment. Marriage between two persons in permissible age is a matter of their mutual preference and hence, societal approval has no part to play in it.
The Family [...]

SONAL MANSINGH FELICITATED

OM Bureau
Cuttack
Smt.Sonal Mansingh, Padma Bibhusan, was felicitated by ‘Odishi Dance Circle’ to mark the inauguration of Barabati Dance Festival. She was conferred with the ‘Rajlaxmi Nrtya Samman’ for her consistent contributions to the culture of Orissa. Inaugurating the dance festival on the famous Bali yatra field in front of the historic Barabati Fort, Smt. Mansingh [...]

RULING ON ORISSA’S NATIONAL SONG

OM Bureau
Bhubaneswar
Whosoever shows any disrespect to Orissa’s National Song “Vande Utkala Janani” shall face penal action, ruled Speaker Mr. Sarat Kumar Kar in the Orissa Legislative Assembly, on December 19,2002. The song, composed by Late Laxmikanta Mohapatra, revered as ‘Kanta Kabi’ was first sung on the dais of the Utkala Sammilani at Balasore during its [...]

NEXUS BETWEEN THE VULTURES STIRS THE HOUSE

OM Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Dec.17
Nexus between unscrupulous traders and government officials was the crux of a noisy scene in the Assembly that heard on December 16, 2002 from members, cutting across party lines, that, rice worth around Rs.500 crores, earmarked for supply only to the people below poverty line, has been recycled into the godowns of mill [...]

FRAMEWORK MOOTED FOR SCR

OM Bureau
Bhubaneswar
Formation of a State Capital Region comprising areas of Bhubaneswar, Khurda, Jatni, Pipili, Cuttack, and, Choudwar is under active consideration of Government. It has decided to appoint three committees, one under the Minister and the rest under the Secretary of Urban Develop department to deal with delimitation of SCR area, preparation of its master [...]

IF FUNDS AVAILABLE, RIVERS MAY LINK

OM Bureau
Bhubaneswar
The Project Report prepared by the M. Khosla Committee to control flood and draught through linkage of the rivers of Orissa has earned emphasis. The Union government is to be moved by the State for provision of funds on this head, after the report is suitably modified, by end of January,2003. The Center presently [...]

ELEPHANTS CAUSE CHAOS IN CAPITAL

OM Bureau
Bhubanesar
With a thirty-year-old man trampled to death by a wild tusker within its territory on December 15, the capital city of Orissa has once again sunk into the question as to how long shall it have to bear with such rampages. Herds of elephants from the Chandaka forest are in habit of trespassing into [...]