SAMADRUSTI Will Now Be On The Net

Orissa’s well-read fortnightly, Samadrusti will be available on the Net from June 30, when its sixth annual day would also present a printed compilation of an index of all its issues published so far. Noted Gandhian scholar Satya Narayan Sahu will formally launch its web edition and deliver a talk on non-corporate media and the [...]

Orissa Government Forgets to Amend Information Rule: Activists Serve on Chief Secretary A Reminder

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The Orissa State Government was ultimately convinced that the Rules it had framed and promulgated in 2005 for implementation of the Right to Information Act was deficient and urgent amendment to the said Rules (RTI Rules, 2005) was necessary to make it effective. Accordingly, last year, it had invited suggestions from the [...]

Utkal Mahila Samiti Honors Veterans

In a colorful function  organized at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar on Sunday, Utkal Mahila Samiti felicitated a number of celebrities with Aagamana honor. Prafulla Samal, Orissa’s Minister for Culture presented the honors and praised the activities of this premier women organization of the State, which is affiliated to National Federation of Indian Women ( NFIW ) [...]

Black Money: Ramdev, Ravi Shankar Type of Fellows Too be Made to Disclose Their Respective Wealth

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Ramdev has ended his acrobatics of hunger-strike on black-money matter to escape medico-legal prosecution. But in course of the hunger-strike it has come to light that his own coffers carry money to the tune of around two thousand crores, which await confirmation through official investigation. Ramdev has not disclosed the amount of [...]

Pale Petals of Niranjan Rath Released

Inheritant of a rich literary tradition, Niranjan Rath, son of late lamented Pandit Chandra Sekhar Rath of Athgarh, has published his first poetic compilation in English, Pale Petals, which he has also dedicated to the memories of his father. Starting career as a rebellious journalist, self-employed in his language periodical as its editor in Athgarh [...]

Congress Sabotages Yet Again Congress In Orissa

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The lady autocrat of the Congress Party, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, has yet again sabotaged the party in Orissa by “appointing” Niranjan Patnaik as its new provincial president in place of K.P.Snghdeo, who was “appointed” just before the elections in 2009. Nobody knows, when a new person shall be “appointed” in place of [...]

It is Time for Indian Patriotic Intelligentsia to Wake up

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Let it be clear from the beginning that this posting is addressed only to the Indian patriotic intelligentsia. Every member of Indian intelligentsia cannot be a patriot; because therein, there are self-seekers and traitors who have ruined post-independence India. Therefore the word ‘patriotic’ is deliberately used for distinguishing who of Indian intelligentsia [...]

Qualifications of Justice Gopalagowda: Some Questions

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak It is sad that the public is being fed with ingredients to bother about qualifications of the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court Sri V. Gopalagowda after a national daily – The Hindu – raised the issue quoting an information seeker (IS)under Right To Information (RTI) Act that he could not get [...]

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