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Orissa Violence - Kandhamal on Fire: Delegations under the leadership of CM Naveen Patnaik, Union Home minister Sivraj Patil, Orissa Home Secretary and DGP and various other ministers and leaders have visited Kandhamal. But the situation has still not improved upto expectation as almost all political leaders played their own electoral card instead of pressuring the total machinery work with commitment to restore peace in the district of Kandhamal and Orissa. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More

Global Warming would make River Ganges run Dry: Due to global warming the moisture content and intensity of the summer and winter monsoon should increase, and they will penetrate deeper into the Himalayas causing more precipitation.  Perhaps this is happening already as evidenced from the earlier mentioned descriptions of the strong cyclones, severe floods, intense rainfall in Rajasthan and growth of glaciers in the Karakoram.  If this were the case, why 67% of Himalayan glaciers, particularly Gangotri are in recession then? Dr Nachiketa Das >>> Read More

Chilka Lake faces the danger of submergence: The mouth occurred at Gabakunda has now become the greatest threat to over ten nearby villages who are anticipating a quick submergence of their villages in the Bay of Bengal and, also, to the livelihood of lakhs of fishing folks living in thousands of villages in and around the lake as Chilka is the only source of their livelihood. Be it submergence of the lake or increase in salinity level of Chilka water, the fishing communities will suffer the worst as their main source of living wouldn’t remain reliable. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More

Rourkela Steel Plant, Biju Pattnaik and Orissa Politics: When (late) Mr Biswanath Das became the Chief Minister of the state for the second time as a candidate of the Utkal Congress (in the late 1980s, the exact years I can not immediately recollect), Biju-babu was a power behind the government since he belonged to the Utkal Congress. But this was a short period and Biswanath Das, all said and done, was not a Biren Mitra, for Biju-babu to manipulate freely. Prof Nilakantha Rath >>> Read More

Elections 2008-09: Tobacco or Health – Let's decide: There are lessons to be learned from the developed world which faced a similar crisis in the 1970s and has been successful in handling it through effective public health measures. All is not lost if we act now and in cohesion. Government alone cannot solve our problems and we need active civil society participation in this fight. Sidhant Jena >>> Read More

Sponge Iron Industries in India - Destroying Environment to make Money: Since the year 2000, spontaneous as well as organized movements have come up in the aforesaid regions against these Sponge Iron plants. These are areas which, apart from being mineral rich, are also forest rich habited by mainly tribal and forest dwelling communities dependent on the forest and agriculture for their survival. To their agony, the sponge iron industries in forest vicinities have become threats to their life by polluting the atmosphere and putting the livelihood sources at stake. Bighneswar Sahu >>> Read More

Fat is no longer feminine: The prized 36-24-36 is now undergoing plastic procedures to achieve a distorted image called lean and ultra thin 'size zero'. Karena was the first such celebrity to join this bandwagon. The actress is believed to be so obsessed with her looks that she has slimmed down to a shocking 48 kgs. And to add to this, she's even proclaimed that she wants to look as thin and stylish as Victoria Beckham. Babuna Biswal >>> Read More

The work of a motion picture camera man: In film-making, the motion picture camera man is very important and at par with director of the film. The coordination and understanding between them is essential — since this is what contributes to the making of the great film classics. It is the combination that Directors and Cinematographers make which proves the point. V N Jatla >>> Read More

Inflation at its Highest making way to food crisis: The pinch of spiking price rise is not only affecting the common man of India, but also threatens the governments and impacts the total political system in the country. Starting from the leaders to the experts and the common man, everybody looks for a short way out of the crisis. T Prasad >>> Read More

Wrong use of Biju Patnaik's name by BJD Leaders initiates debate on Web: BJD leaders including those who hold responsible positions in the party are engaged in dropping the name of Biju Patnaik unreasonably and unnecessarily too much. They link Biju Babu’s name with all projects that, they believe, are the icons of industrialization and development. They never go by the realities in most of the industrial townships - be it Rourkela or Sunabeda or Damanjodi - but tell lots of hypothetical stories. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More

Celebrating Cubs' birthday - Nandankanan's new way of creating awareness: White tiger is the icon of the zoo as it first started breeding the species in a zoo ambience. We all know that the cat population is going low due to several reasons. So such innovative way of celebrating birthday of the cubs will surely help creating awareness among school children, parents and visitors who participated in the birthday’, said Director of Nandankanan Zoo Ajit Kumar Pattnaik. Md Suffian >> Read More

Does National Flag need celebrity links in controversies to establish its dignity?: Does the national flag lose its dignity only when it is used, misused or abused by a celebrity of this country? Or, does it need some controversy with dignified link to make people realize the dignity of tricolour National Flag of India? Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More

Jai Hind - A feature on patriotic songs in Hindi films: Talk of patriotic numbers and many more film songs of such caliber come to mind. Songs like Aye Watan, Aye Watan, Watan Ki Raha Main, Mera Rang De Basanti Chola(Saheed) , Apni Azadi Ko Hum (Leader), title track of 'Hindusthan Ki Kasam' and 'Kar Chale Hum Fida' (Haqeekat)  not only make one nostalgic but fill the heart with nationalistic fervor as well. Tulsidas Mishra >>> Read More

Taking Indo US relationship a step further Maryland celebrated Rathyatra with Odisha Governor: The efforts to popularise Odiya culture outside is definitely praiseworthy. But for all-round development of the state and its people, Orissa needs active participation of the visionaries and experts living outside the state in the process of development. They should act as development initiators, investors and guides to take Odisha on the roads of progress. HNF Bureau >>> Read More

Trauma, Tears and Teligiri - Life just before displacement: Nobody other than the displaced can feel how painful and sorrowful is displacement. Tragedy of the post-displacement life is visible, but the pain and suffering prior to displacement is heart breaking although invisible. It’s as good as experiencing a death before it really comes as life passes with tensions and lots of fearful apprehensions. Bibhuti Bhusan Pati >>> Read More

Probing Orissa Health System Development Project Scam - an attempt to fool the public: Threatened by the World Bank, Orissa Government ordered for a vigilance enquiry of the matter. It also didn’t question the World Bank about the consultants who were placed to monitor and guide the project team. The way enquiry was made and charge sheet was submitted against a few specific officials, it became clear that government investigating agency worked with a preset objective of finding some scapegoats to safeguard the key people involved in it. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More

Oriyas unite: Fight the abject poverty, not each other: For the last few months a certain coastal locality of the Mahanadi delta of Orissa is noticing some horrific infighting. Proposed establishment of a certain large scale industry has polarised the inhabitants to such an extent that they have resorted to fighting pitched battles... Intensity of their hatred gives me the feeling that if these penniless factions had the money, they would buy fighter-planes and battle-tanks to settle the score! Dr Nachiketa Das >>> Read More

Boar poaching and trading rampant in Kandhamal - Wildlife Protection Act just for Namesake: Although there is an Act for the protection of wildlife, most people in the villages in and around the forests of Kandhamal are into the practice of domesticating and selling wild Boars. Basudev Mahapatra with inputs from Simanchal Pattnaik in Phulbani >>> Read More

Industrialisation of Orissa – Politics of Disinvestments, De-industrialisation and Re-Industrialisation: In his first term as CM, Naveen initiated the drive to close the state owned industries and made Orissa virtually an industry starved... second term started with high sounding MOU drama. By now, over 50 MOUs have been signed with big corporate houses. Orissa soon became the investment hub attracting corporate groups for an anticipated investment of 400000 crores of rupees. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More