AN ORIYA’S DOCUMENTARY SLATED FOR DISCOVERY CHANNEL

Come June 05, the World Environment Day, Discovery Channel will telecast Climate’s First Orphans, a documentary produced by Orissa’s Nila Madhab Panda under the Environment Film Fellowship, 2005 of the, United Kingdom Creating Tomorrow Programme, revealed Panda at Bhubaneswar on May29.
It is an attempt to look through the lens at the plight of Orissa’s coastal [...]

BHUBANESWAR BOY TOPS THE COUNTRY’S CBSE GRADUATES

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
This year, it is a boy from Bhubaneswar that has secured the highest position in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X examinations obtaining a record 98.06 per cent of marks. He is Shubhankar Mahapatra of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur.
Bagging 493 out of total marks of 500, Shubhankar has secured 99 [...]

PRESS CLUB OF BANGALORE FELICITATES BUDDHIA

M.Tunga Samanta from Bangalore
The wonder boy Buddhia Singh, despite leg-pulling by Orissa Government, has made his presence registered in the hearts of appreciating people of Bangalore on 27 May 2006, by receiving felicitations from the Press Club of Bangalore.
The Press Club, according to its Secretary Sadashiva Shenoy, had invited Buddhia Singh to offer him the [...]

DEBAR SUCH DOCTORS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Additional District Judge of Khurda Mr. Manoranjan Pattanayak has called for case records to see if Dr. P.C. Panda, Head of Surgery Department and Dr. B.C. Kar, his associate and Specialist in Surgery in the prestigious Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswar could be enlarged on bail from the jail custody they are remanded to by [...]

RULES RAPED: CHILD DEVELOPMENT MINISTER MISUSES POWER TO HARASS BUDDHIA SINGH

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Had there been not a Chief Minister like Naveen Patnaik, had there been not a Child Development Minister like Pramila Mallik, had there been not a Cabinet like the incumbents in Orissa, Buddhia Singh, the darling child of this splendid soil, who, at the age of around four, has earned the epithet - [...]

THE POGROM AND THE PREDICAMENT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is in a predicament over the Kalinga Nagar pogrom.
The relatives of the annihilated Adivasis (Tribal people) have refused on 23rd May 2006 to receive what the Government was prompting them to receive as the chopped off palms of five of their martyrs whom the State Police had killed [...]

BJD MINISTERS SUCCUMBED TO SUPREMO SYNDROME

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
A Chief Minister has the prerogative to reshuffle his cabinet. Hence, when Orissa CM dropped today four of his cabinet colleagues and inducted six new Ministers, it looked like a normal democratic business. But it was not.
The Ministers who are dropped are not democratically dropped; the Ministers who are inducted are not democratically [...]

Reshuffle in State Government!

Breaking Story!
OM Bureau

The Chief Minister of Orissa Naveen Patnaik has informed the Governor recommending to drop four ministers as he wants to resuffle his council of ministers with six new inductions.
Ministers who have been dropped are: Dr. Damodar Raut (Panchayatiraj), Nagendra Pradhan (Mass education), Bijayasree Rautray (Health) and Balabhadra Majhi (SC & ST ).
All three [...]

MEDICOS MUST REFRAIN FROM MAKING HAVOC

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Students of the Medical Colleges of Orissa have joined the ongoing agitation of medicos in various parts of the Country against seat reservation for OBC candidates in elite educational institutions.
Seat reservation is a future program. It has no applicability to the present students. In no way the present medicos are to be affected [...]

THE CM SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE LAW AND FOIL FOUL DESIGN OF BUREAUCRACY

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
If a Chief Minister does not bother to know and understand the Law, how can the State run? This question stares at us in the context of Prof. Biswaranjan, a man known all over Orissa, not only as a perfect teacher, but also for his intellectual activities.
Prof. Biswaranjan has retired from Orissa Education [...]