Friday 20 November '09
Eight weeks ago, Laxman Choudhury, a stringer with a vernacular newspaper in Mohana block of Gajapati district, was called...Monday 16 November '09
As more and more details are unearthed, a complex web of mining irregularities — mining even when the lease had expired, mining...Saturday
14 November '09Official documents reveal that the magnitude of the Orissa mining scam could be anything over Rs 14000 crore.Saturday
14 November '09A week before Union Home Secretary GK Pillai's visit to Orissa, Maoists on Friday set off a landmine in Malkangiri district that blew up a CRPF vehicle killing three CRPF personnel and injuring seven....Thursday
12 November '09Operators failed to prove activity legal, leases ran out long ago, says state mines director....Monday
9 November '09Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik may be asking the Centre for more paramilitary forces to combat the Maoists but differences have started surfacing between the central forces....Tuesday
3 November '09While the Centre finalises its plans for a joint offensive along with the affected states against Maoists, Orissa’s Special Operations Group...Monday
2 November '09Even after 10 years, the October 1999 Super Cyclone still haunts lakhs of people in the 14 coastal districts of Orissa and more so in Erasama...Thursday
29 October '09A day after the Delhi-bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was hijacked on the Kharagpur-Tatanagar route for over six hours by Maoist sympathisers near Jhargram....Wednesday
28 October '09Two phones at the Bhubaneswar railway station, from where the New Delhi-bound 2443A Rajdhani Express pulled out at 9.35 am before it was stopped by tribals near Jhargram....Friday
23 October '09Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....Wednesday
21 October '09Naseer Khan, the lead actor and co-producer of Hindi movie Shadow, was on Tuesday arrested in Cuttack for his alleged...Monday
19 October '09Yet to figure out the extent of the multi-crore mining scam, Orissa Steel and Mines department has announced a reward for whistleblowers...Saturday
17 October '09The Orissa government has directed district collectors to ensure that HIV-positive people, tribals, daily labourers, differently abled persons and beggars...Thursday
15 October '09The suspected Maoists who carried out Tuesday night’s attack on former JMM MP Sudam Marndi in the tribal dominated Mayurbhanj district....Thursday
15 October '09With civil contractors shying away from building a bridge over Saberi river in the Maoist hotbed of Motu in south Orissa’s Malkangiri district....Wednesday
14 October '09Three policemen, including a personal security officer of former Mayurbhanj MP Sudam Marandi, were gunned down by suspected Maoists at a football match at Pandav village of tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj district on Tuesday....Monday
5 October '09Two days after announcing two meagre financial packages for backward and Maoist-hit Kandhamal and Gajapati districts....Monday
28 September '09A six-member team of the Union Shipping Ministry headed by National Shipping Board chairman Capt P V K Mohan reached the Paradip port on Sunday to inspect MV Black Rose....Friday
25 September '09A journalist recently joined the state’s long list of accused having ‘Maoist links’. A packet containing Maoist literature, police said, was proof he was ‘waging war against state’...Tuesday
22 September '09While the fifth foundation day of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) passed off peacefully in the rest of the state, armed Maoists...Friday
18 September '09ArcelorMittal, was on Friday pulled up by the Orissa government for the inordinate delay in its proposed projects in the state....Thursday
17 September '09Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday ordered the suspension of Director of Mines R N Sahu for his alleged involvement in the scam....Thursday
17 September '09An expert group of the Rural Development Ministry has suggested to Orissa govt that the actual level of BPL population in the state should be revised upwards from the present level of 47 pct.Friday
11 September '09Five railway employees of Topadihi station are suspected to have been abducted by Maoist rebels who struck in separate groups at different places in Sundargarh district....
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