BHUBANESWAR MAYOR OFFENDS THE LADIES, BOTH CORPORATORS & THE COMMISSIONER

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Absolutely unprecedented it is in the history of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).
But when a protg of the Chief Minister happens to be the Mayor, not to have played with the dignity of the lady colleagues while the Council was in session would have remained unprecedented in the annals of Biju legacy that these [...]

GAGGING OF WEB SITES: DESIRABLE BUT DANGEROUS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
To the Communists, the Central Governments new method of bridling the ultra-right electronic media may seem desirable at the moment, but it is the most dangerous design against Communism.
In these pages I have earlier discussed how a section of electronic media, particularly the poppet TV channels were used to confuse voters during the [...]

SCAM ENGULFS HIGH TECH EDUCATION IN ORISSA: MERIT MARKERS SILENT!

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
A casual calculation leads to a scam exceeding Rs. 200 crore per annum in Orissas High-Tech education sector. But the merit markers are silent!
Only a few weeks ago, we have seen, in the name of merit, how a horrifying protest was raised against proposed reservation of seats for the socially disadvantaged in institutions [...]

Web Journalism in Orissa

(Editor notes: Internet journalism in Orissa at several layers has been working as a developmental communication. It is gaining wide acceptance by most readers of traditional mass media, following the online potential to disseminate and organize news, as well as enabling the readers’ active participation. Orissa, with its highly promising information technology sector, has been [...]