BHUBANESWAR TO HOST FILMFEST ON ENVIRONMENT

(Bureau News)
Bhubaneswar shall have a film festival for the first time on the themes of environment come November 30.
Styled ‘Environment - Beyond Trees and Tigers, The Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi in association with Manav Adhikar Seva Samiti, Sambalpur is offering this event as Traveling Film Festival 2005.
This occasion would also commence national [...]

OFFICERS PRESENCE A MUST DURING DEBATES: RULING REPEATED

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The allegation is not new. Neither the ruling.
Both the allegation and the ruling thereon are germane to constitutional stipulations that the government is answerable to the House of Representatives of the people.
But who cares? Orissa Legislative Assembly has perhaps lost its significance to government officers!
During the zero hour on 25 Nov.05, Opposition Chief [...]

WHO SHOULD EDUCATE THE CHIEF MINISTER? OPPOSITION WONDERS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
If anything, the Opposition was in a loss to understand as to who should educate the chief minister that it is becoming of him to remain present in the House when important issues germane to his portfolios were being discussed!
Naveen Patnaiks habitual absence has irritated the Opposition if the concern expressed during zero [...]

NETIZENS OF ORISSA MAKE ASSEMBLY REALISE ITS RESPONSIBILITY

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa Legislative Assembly has decided on 23rd November to constitute a house committee comprising members from all legislative parties to take up the issue of National Institute of Science (NIS) that was offered to Orissa in 2003 and shanghaied into West Bengal under the guise of Indian Institute of Science for Education and [...]

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: UNION GOVT. IGNORES ORISSA AGAIN

What do our M.P.s do?
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
If Arjun Singhs agenda goes clockwise, Bhopal shall have a Central University very soon. But no Central University can be established without the Parliament making a Law in its respect. Hence, the Parliament shall have to assize for establishment of a Central University at Bhopal.
Here the Members of Parliament [...]

ORISSA STAND SUBSTANTIATED: IISER AT KOLKATA STAYED

Cuttack Bureau
It is an interim order. But in it, people of Orissa find their stand substantiated.
The Orissa High Court has asked Union Government to refrain from establishing Indian Institute of Science for Education & Research (IISER) at Kolkata, acting on the PIL in hearing of which the Union as well as the State Governments are [...]

ORISSAMATTERS.COM CLICKED,BUT I WILL PRAISE NAVEEN

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
I have not seen anybody beyond his circle of sycophants to have praised Naveen Patnaik recently in public. But I will do.
I will do it because it was I who had put the comment captioned Orissa is in the worst phase of her life on these pages on 28 August 05.
I am glad [...]

CASTE CONFLICT: TORTURED BARBERS SEEK SOCIETY SUPPORT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The State Government is yet to rise to the occasion. Barbers of Orissa are yet to be saved from Social slavery. Human-rights activist Baghambar Pattanayak, who has been working for their liberation, is yet to be free from Jharapada Jail where he has been lodged since more than a month for having led [...]

NIS: CONVENTION DEMANDS EXECUTION OF EARLIER DECISION

Bhubaneswar Bureau
Execution of earlier central government decision for establishment of National Institute of Science (NIS) in Bhubaneswar was demanded in a convention held in the P. G. Council Hall of Utkal University on 6th Nov. 2005.
Organized by Agamee Odisha in association with Utkal University Teachers Association, the convention put premium on the announcement of [...]

NIS / IISER: NAVEEN USES IIT AS A NEW PLOY AGAINST ORISSA

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
MoU trickster Navin Patnaik has come out with a new flimflam against the gullible people of Orissa, this time using IIT, Karagpur and XLRI, Jamshedpur as collaborators with secret help from Prime Minster Man Mohan Singh.
As we have repeatedly highlighted* in these pages, Orissa was to be the first State to have a [...]