Action Needed Against Inaction of Police: Kanak Tv Man Moves the High Court

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak A journalist working with Kanak Tv saw a BJD stalwart of Pipili looting a valuable tree from a public place. As a conscious citizen, in due deference to duties enshrined in the Constitution, he advised the person concerned, Prabhakar Behera on the spot, not to cut down the tree. Behera intimidated and [...]

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JUDICIARY HELPS DEMOCRACY AT ATHGARH, BUT THE ISSUE IS DIFFERENT

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak In these pages, on April 7, 2009, under the caption “Spirit of democracy is in danger at Athgarh: EC must immediately interfere”, I had noted: Obliteration of BJD candidate from the election scenario in Athgarh on flimsy / misconceived / misconstrued technical grounds is nothing but denial of voting rights to the [...]

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MORE FUNDS PLEDGED TO NON-PLAN: DEFICIT TO BE MET BY LOAN

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak After the day was lost to repeat of adjournments following formal obituary mention, Orissa Legislative Assembly on June 22, as the Opposition Congress walked out, got the Finance Minister Prafulla C. Ghadai place the final budget at 5 in the evening for the current Financial Year that pledges 52.53 per cent of [...]

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RAJYASBHA ELECTION IN ORISSA: AN INSTANCE OF DEMOCRATIC DECADENCE

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak To the preening prince of Bijudom, success of the BJD candidates in Rajyasabha election in Orissa is a matter of pride. But it is an instance of democratic decadence. The super-supremo of the ruling party Pyari Mohan Mohapatra’s assertion much ahead of filing of nomination papers that 111 of 147 MLAs would [...]

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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak’s Singhabalokan Formally Launched

Posted on June 15, 2010 by orissamattersbbsr

A compilation of Subhas Chandra Pattanayak’s works of animadversion published originally in Orissa’s highest circulated daily major Sambad was formally launched in the auditorium of the Red Cross Bhawan at Bhubaneswar in the evening of June 13, retaining the column title Singhabalokan. Editor of Sambad, Sri Soumya Ranjan Pattanaik offered the mega work as a [...]

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Nandini Satpathy Fondly Recalled

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Nandini Satpathy had epitomized the determination against gender discrimination and was in her assertive best in the male dominated political scenario. In this respect she was the first in Orissa and one of the first few in India that have made their marks in applied democracy. Orissa, to her credit, had, before [...]

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MUFP DEMANDS ACTION AGAINT POLICEMEN IN ROURKELA FOR ASSAULT ON PRESS

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Ajaya K Mohapatra

The Media Unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP ) has strongly condemned the assault on mediapersons on duty at Bangamunda , Rourkela by the police on Tuesday and has asked the Chief Minister for immediate exemplary action against the erring police officials in order to stop ruining freedom of Press in the State. The MUFP [...]

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Ability to Misrule Makes a Larger Budget

Posted on June 8, 2010 by orissamattersbbsr

When Finance Minister (FM) P.C.Ghadei placed before the State Cabinet the draft budget of Rs. 38,929 crore on Monday for the current plan of 2010-11, he also made it clear that there is no additional tax proposal even though the proposed budget is larger than that of the last year. In other words the proposed [...]

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Red Cross Holds Workshop on Conflict Reporting

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Ajaya K Mohapatra

Indian Red Cross – Orissa State Branch and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organised a workshop on “Media, Conflict Reporting and International Humanitarian Law” on Thursday,3rd june,2010 at Hotel Hindusthan International, Bhubaneswar.The workshop was inaugurated by Sri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare, Governor of Orissa and the President, the State Branch of Indian Red Cross [...]

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MUFP CONDEMNS UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON PRESS BY P.G. STUDENTS OF M.K.C.G. MEDICAL COLLEGE,BERHAMPUR.

Posted on June 2, 2010 by orissamattersbbsr

The members of Media Unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP), who met under the ” Freedom Tree” on Tuesday, condemned in the strongest possible terms the unprovoked attack on fellow media persons by PG students of the MKCG Medical College in Berhampur on Monday and demands immediate identification and arrest of the culprits as well [...]

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