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UPA, NDA woo non-committal Naveen

Friday 15 May '09

With little more than 36 hours to go for the counting of votes, Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik is still keeping his cards close to his chest....
Suspension revoked, DGP Mohanti says he has no interest in son

Thursday 14 May '09

The Orissa Government on Tuesday night revoked the suspension of state’s seniormost IPS officer Bidya Bhushan Mohanti, father of rape convict Bitihotra Mohanti....
Nalco mine resumes full ops month after Maoist attack

Wednesday 13 May '09

A month after a daring Maoist attack claimed the lives of 11 CISF jawans and over 20 rebels, Public sector Navratna company Nalco....
Naveen to Karat: no NDA or UPA, with you

Saturday 9 May '09

Orissa Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik on Friday moved a step closer to the Third Front...
CRPF, Naxals clash during Orissa repoll

Wednesday 6 May '09

Repolling for 25 booths in Orissa was marked by exchange of fire between CRPF jawans and Maoists in Malkangiri district....
Killer heatwave sweeps across Orissa, worst in 11 years

Friday 1 May '09

Orissa is in the grip of a killer heatwave, possibly the worst since 1998, with the maximum temperature remaining over 40 degree Celsius....
Voting hit by heat, villagers’ boycott

Friday 24 April '09

Despite a heatwave sweeping across the state’s coastal and interior districts, Orissa saw more than 61 per cent voting for the 11 Lok Sabha and 77 Assembly seats....
JMM on slippery ground

Thursday 23 April '09

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is at risk of losing its first and only Lok Sabha seat in Orissa. Five years ago, when a young and energetic Sudam Marndi....
Rice keeps BJD healthy in three-way fight

Thursday 23 April '09

Both Congress and BJP may be fiercely critical of the Naveen Patnaik government in their campaigns, but to Mayadhar Nayak....
Why Orissa is watching Patkura

Wednesday 22 April '09

A tilak on his forehead, Sushant Mishra, a young graduate from Patkura Assembly constituency in coastal Kendrapara district....
Laxmanananda murder: cops claim key catch

Wednesday 22 April '09

Orissa police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a Maoist who was involved in masterminding the murder of VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati.....
Laxmanananda a poll issue, but his school forgotten

Monday 20 April '09

On a hot April afternoon, Ramlal Durua, a 13-year-old tribal boy from Maoist-infested Malkangiri district, beats the heat by fanning himself with his notebooks.....
Fighting a war: 1 fan for 14 CISF men, 1 toilet for 26

Friday 17 April '09

The band of 26 jawans of the Central Industrial Security Force who lost 10 colleagues in a nine-hour battle with over 300 Maoists...
Candidates mess up poll chances, forget party tickets at home

Friday 17 April '09

In election season, party tickets are the most coveted things. But looking at the way politicians in Orissa...
At Nalco mine’s Ground Zero, story of CISF courage and fear

Thursday 16 April '09

Hours before Koraput goes to polls, suspected Naxalites launched a fresh attack tonight on a CISF barrack in Damanjodi town...
Cut off from BJP, Naveen faces acid test

Thursday 16 April '09

More than 1.26 crore voters in Orissa will decide on Thursday the fate of candidates in 10 Lok Sabha constituencies...
Nalco siege ends, 11 CISF jawans, 4 Naxals killed

Tuesday 14 April '09

The first-ever Maoist attack on an Orissa corporate installation that began with a siege of National Aluminium Company's bauxite mines...
Maoists attack Nalco mines in Orissa, 2 CISF jawans killed

Monday 13 April '09

Maoists launched an audacious attack on Nalco mines in Orissa, killing at least two CISF jawans.
Kandhamal candidate is ‘untraceable’

Monday 13 April '09

The Election Commission on Sunday slapped two more sections against Ashok Sahu, the BJP candidate from Kandhamal Lok Sabha...
It’s hot election topic but Kandhamal cold to polls

Monday 13 April '09

The rest of the country may be animatedly discussing elections in post-riot Kandhamal, but this is perhaps the only year when the largely rural...
Displaced Kandhamal victims may boycott polls

Saturday 11 April '09

With elections here less than a week away, riot victims in the relief camps of Kandhamal district say that they may boycott...
Maoists strike in Orissa, kill Assembly candidate

Friday 10 April '09

Maoists struck their first blow to the election process in Orissa on Thursday, killing a regional party’s candidate for the Malkangiri Assembly seat in south Orissa.
Naveen govt ignored poor, Dalits: Rahul

Thursday 9 April '09

AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for neglecting the Dalits and tribals of Orissa.
Orissa’s heart of darkness chooses from crorepatis

Tuesday 7 April '09

The Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) region is Orissa’s heart of darkness, infamous for its acute poverty which in the past led to starvation deaths....
Lines blur as Orissa scribes turn netas

Monday 6 April '09

In Orissa, being in the press means proximity to politics and power. So no eyebrows were raised when former Doordarshan journalist Ashok Panda....
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