Attempted Gang Rape by BSF Men: OMCT Demands Action against West Bengal Police for Inaction

What should have a victim of attempted gang rape done after the incident? She should have gone to the local police seeking action against the culprits. What should the police have done on receipt of the information? It should have registered a case and taken prompt action against the accused. A married woman of village [...]

ORISSA GOVERNOR FELICITATES JOURNALIST PRASANTA PATNAIK

In formally inaugurating the special annual issue of weekly Asha Pradeep, Orissa Governor Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare felicitated veteran journalist Prasanta Patnaik on Tuesday at Soochana Bhavan, Bhubaneswar for his long standing contribution to journalism, photo-journalism, TV journalism as well as creative writings. His recent short-story collection “Ravan Podi ” a symbolic presentation of the present [...]

Utkal Jyoti Releases Souvenir on Orissa

Report from Gurgaon Utkal Jyoti Charitable Organization, the Gurgaon based association of Oriyas residing in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon ( NCR ), in a special function has released a souvenir on contemporary Orissa on the occasion of its 5th annual day at the Vaishya Samaj Hall in Gurgaon, Haryana on May 23. Chairman of [...]

India vs Indians :: Orissa’s Freedom Struggle

Saswat Pattanayak Courtesy: Radical Notes This article published in Radical Notes in three parts is a must to know Peoples’ History of Orissa’s Dispossessed. Hence it is here.(SCP) If laws are meant to protect the people, then the only thing illegal in India must be the Government. Only a morally bankrupt, democratically inept and humanistically [...]

UGC Scale Must be a Must for Private Techno Teachers

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The State Government has been directly paying the teachers of privately run general education colleges their salaries in UGC scale, but the techno teachers are perishing under unfair salaries in Orissa. What a contradiction! We have, with much pain, shown in these pages how the techno teachers are being treated as helots [...]

MUFP Thanks Angul for Solidarity with the Press

Media Unity for Freedom of Press ( MUFP) has thanked and congratulated the people of Anugul, as well as local leaders and organisations for expressing unprecedented solidarity with the mediapersons and observing “total bandh ” in Angul on 10th May, as a mark of their protest against brutal attack by C.I.S.F. Jawans on ETV reporter [...]

PATRIOTS, TAKE NOTE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee has justified caste-based census. Caste as a class is a weapon devised against India by USA as V.P.Singh episode suggests. VP had vitiated Indian politics with caste poison by transforming caste syndrome to a class syndrome. In both Pranab and VP there is similarity in motive. What [...]

MUFP Gets International Support: IPI Expresses Deep Concern over Increasing Violence against Journalists in Orissa

In a statement from Vienna, Austria, on 10 May, International Press Institute has stood with the Media Unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP) in its campaign against assault on media in Orissa. Here is the statement: VIENNA, 10 May: A journalist in Orissa, India was brutally beaten on 6 May, a day after his paper [...]

MUFP DEMANDS IMMEDIATE ARREST OF C.I.S.F. JAWANS FOR ASSULTING ETV REPORTER IN ANUGUL

Instances of gang attack on mediamen by uniformed personnel is in the rise in Orissa. Media unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP) has reacted to the latest of such instances wherein culprits are CISF Jawans. Following is the MUFP statement: Media Unity for freedom of Press is deeply disturbed over increasing instances of assault on [...]

MUFP Condemns the Nexus between Police and Criminals

Condemning the murderous attack on Daritri reporter Chandrakant Das by a criminal in presence of general public and the intriguing Police inaction despite written complaints, the Media Unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP) has issued the following statement: It is a matter of great concern that the police has yet to wake up to the [...]

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