NIS BECOMES NISER: PM ANNOUNCES ITS ESTABLISHMENT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
In indirectly confessing that the Central Government had told a lie to the Supreme Court while moving for a vacation of stay imposed by the Orissa High Court on establishment of IISER at Kolkata till the offer given to Orissa was not fulfilled, Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh today admitted that the Central [...]

PRIME MINISTER MAY LAY NISc FOUNDATION, BUT THE VICTORY WILL BE OF ORIYA NATION

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is slated to lay foundation of National Institute of Science (NISc) at Bhubaneswar.
He is in politics, he is in power and he is the Prime Minister of India. If he wants, he can lay foundation of any Government Institute he likes. So he will lay the foundation of [...]

Journalism Education And Its Spread in Orissa

Mrinal Chatterjee
Journalism is fast becoming a specialized profession requiring specialized theoretical and practical knowledge and skill. With the development of information technology journalists today need to acquire soft skills to handle equipment and the process of collecting, retrieving, processing and disseminating information, besides developing conceptual clarity relating to content, which requires a sound theoretical framework.
This [...]

SPIRIT OF HIGH COURT RULING SLOUGHED OVER IN DISTRICT COURT

ATTEMPT TO BILK THE STATE OUT OF COURT-FEES CONTINUES
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The issue is intricate. When the spirit of a High Court ruling is sloughed over in a lower court, that too, in the court of a District Judge, what else can it be?
Attempts to bilk the State out of its due Court-fees are not new. [...]

NAVEEN IN A NEW SCAM; THIS TIME IN KENDU LEAF

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Unless he obliterates an illegal order of the Managing Director of Orissa Forest Development Corporation (OFDC) forthwith, there shall be enough ground to suspect that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik himself is involved with a scam in Kendu leaf trade involving around Rs. 60 Crores.
Kendu leaf (KL) scam is not new in Orissa. Many [...]

PRESS ACCREDITATION RULES, 2006 IS ANARCHIC, ALLEGE SCRIBES

Journalists of Bhubaneswar on August 20th have condemned the Orissa News Media Accreditation Rules, 2006 as arbitrary and anarchic and have demanded that it be withdrawn by the Government forthwith.
In a spontaneous gathering that developed into a convention, journalists forgot union rivalry to express common concern over the State Governments attempt to do away with [...]

ACROBATICS CONTINUE; NOW UTKALAMANI USED AS A COVER!

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
His modus operandi behind renaming KBK Plan by the name of his father Biju Patnaik exposed threadbare by your website, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has started newer acrobatics to divert public attention from this anti-democracy design. He has announced launching of a rural Plan in the name of Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das, which [...]

DEMOCRATIC PRUDENCE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Some of my readers, quite well-meaning and noble, while appreciating the factuality in my published accounts on Biju Patnaik, have observed that I am somewhat biased against a legendary leader like him inasmuch as I have not condemned the vandalization of his statue, even though he had donated all his assets to Orissa, [...]

TEACH US DEAR AUGUST FIFTEEN TO DISCARD THE COVER OF INDEPENDENCE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Dear August 15, every second, every minute, every hour, every day of the year has passed away only to make me say that you are the fountainhead of my pride as an Indian.
The Sun was not seen. Not seen by any of us on our soil. But when August 14, 1947 elapsed into [...]

A NEW TAMMANY NOW TARGETS KBK

DEMOCRACY NEEDS THIS NUISANCE BE DEFEATED
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak.
A new tammany now targets KBK even as whole of Orissa is taken for a ride. It stares at us from the Ramparts of our Democracy. Take note.
The eighth session of Orissa Legislative Assembly began on July 31 and ended on August 12 generating an alarming impression [...]