Orissa CinemaSubhas Chandra Pattanayak It was not an accidental attack. It was deliberate. It was calculatedly carried out. But the gunmen missed the target. The only woman heading the most popular satellite channel in Northeast India escaped unhurt. Ms. Manoranjana Sinha, Chairperson-cum-Managing Director of NETV, herself a brilliant journalist, is safe; because the bullets could not [...]
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the authorities in the Indian state of Assam to urgently investigate the likelihood that there may have been an attempt on the life of Ms Manoranjana Sinh, chairman and managing director of NETV, a news and entertainment broadcast network serving India’s north-eastern region. According to reports from the [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The Home Department run by Chief Minister Navin Patnaik has established that there is no dearth of crooks and crabs in his cabinet. When we were looking at the loot in Orissa Health System Development Project (OHSDP) as the latest indicator to this, criminal intervention of Urban Development Minister K.V.Singhdeo in Police [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Reacting to my earlier posting, an esteemed friend has rightly observed that the Crime Branch (CB) of Police of any other state is legally not entitled to conduct the investigation into the fund loot in Orissa Health System Development Project (OHSDP) as suggested. He has asked for citation of precedence, if any, [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak A judgment, which fails to clear doubts, is a bad judgment. Instead of helping people in getting judicially informed, it spreads judicial confusion. Unfortunately the February 4, 2008 judgment of the Supreme Court in Civil appeal No. 653 of 2006 between State of Orissa & Anr (petitioner) and M/s. Tata Iron & [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak For reasons best known to himself Chief Minister Navin Patnaik is shying at the CBI in the matter of loot of the World Bank loan in Orissa Health System Development Project (OHSDP) perpetrated under the umbrella of his administration. People of Orissa, without getting the expected benefit, will have to repay more [...]
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When looters rule, a State runs in the way Orissa has now been caught in the camera to have run in the matter of implementation of World Bank loan in the Health System Development Project (OHSDP). Just look at the photos below to see samples of how the looters have left their fingerprints on the [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak To me personally Ram of Ramayana is no incarnation of any God. I am perhaps the first post-independence Indian to have said this not only in these pages, but also in national media. To me, poet-philosopher Valmiki had created him for propaganda of patriarchy as the guiding force of society as he [...]
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