Wikio - Orissa

Janashakti Party to contest civic polls (Hindu)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:13:10 GMT

BERHAMPUR: State unit of the Bharatiya Janashakti Party has decided to field candidates in all municipalities of the State during the coming local body elections. President of the Orissa unit of the party Mahesh Mohanty said at a press ...

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Lift irrigation employees on the warpath (Hindu)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:13:07 GMT

BHUBANESWAR: It has been over 10 days since all the employees right from chief engineer to clerks of Orissa Lift Irrigation Corporation (OLIC) have gone on a mass leave, but there seems to be little effort of reconciliation by the State ...

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Court cancels judge post (The Telegraph India)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:13:12 GMT

Cuttack, July 4: Thirty-four months after Orissa High Court ordered the invalidation of the appointment of candidates who had secured less than 50 per cent in selection tests for ad hoc judges, the government has apparently made no effort to comply with the judgment, fully.

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Puri stampede caused due to organisational error (merinews - citizen powered media)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:11:37 GMT

The Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra is world famous. People in Orissa and other parts of the country, including foreigners, eagerly wait for this occasion. It is a tragedy that six devotees were killed in a stampede during the yatra.

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HC quashes fast track court ad hoc judges’ appointment (Hindu)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:44:48 GMT

CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Thursday quashed appointment of seven ad hoc additional judges of fast track courts. “They were selected on the basis of an impugned selection procedure and hence their appointments are ...

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Substitute fertilizer sent to Delta districts (Hindu)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:27:31 GMT

2,596 tonnes of IFFCO phosphate arrive from Orissa

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A platform to showcase skills (Hindu)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:26:57 GMT

CHENNAI: Think Gulliver and the image of the ‘tall’ Gulliver being tied down by tiny strings and tens of Lilliputians clambering over him comes to the mind. Sand sculpture artist Ranjan Kumar Ganguli from Orissa has recreated the ...

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Bodies of eight commandos slain by Maoists recovered (India eNews: Top Headlines)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:30:53 GMT

Navy divers Friday recovered the bodies of eight more personnel of Andhra Pradesh police's elite Greyhounds force killed in an ambush by Maoist guerillas in the Balimela reservoir in Orissa June 29, police said.

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India temple stampede kills six (BBC News )

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:51:33 GMT

At least six people die and 12 are injured in a stampede during a festival in the Indian state of Orissa.

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Orissa Naxal attack: 17 bodies recovered so far (rediff News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:18:38 GMT

Five more bodies were recovered from the Machkund (Balimela) reservoir by the search teams and airlifted to Visakhapatnam for post-mortem. Akun Sabharwal, the district superintendent of police, Visakhapatnam, told the media at Chitrakund that so far 15 bodies have been found and another 21 bodies are believed to be stuck in the sunken vessel.

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Six Hindu worshippers killed in stampede in eastern India (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:31:02 GMT

New Delhi - At least six worshippers were killed and 20 injured in a stampede during a popular Hindu festival in India's eastern state of Orissa on Friday, news reports said. The devotees, most of them elderly persons, died when a crowd of pilgrims r...

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Unesco help for tribal archive (The Telegraph India)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:15:46 GMT

Bhubaneswar, July 3: Orissa Museum of Tribal Art and Artefacts will soon be a little more interactive and organised, thanks to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) that has offered to help.

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Nesco in tariff trouble net (The Telegraph India)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:15:46 GMT

Cuttack, July 3: Ferroalloys Industries drawing power from Northeastern Electricity Supply Company of Orissa (Nesco) have moved the high court against a sudden denial of benefit of 25 per cent discount on energy charges under special agreement-based tariff.

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Postal services in State in a disarray (Hindu)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:27:57 GMT

CUTTACK: At least 22 post offices in Orissa have been closed during the past two years and another 50 are on the verge of winding up due to acute staff crunch. Not long ago, in February 2007 a middle-aged post peon hanged himself inside a ...

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SI’s body recovered (Hindu)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:52:56 GMT

VISAKHAPATNAM: Body of Munchingput Sub-Inspector Jallu Sankara Rao, was one of the six bodies recovered on Thursday from the launch that was sunk by Maoists in Chitrakonda (Balimela) reservoir in Orissa on Sunday. The SI accompanied the ...

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Engineer clarifies on reservoir (Hindu)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:52:54 GMT

Srikakulam: The Superintending Engineer, Vamsadhara Project, S.Dakshina Murthy, has asserted that the proposed barrages of Orissa Government across Mahendratanaya river would have no impact on our proposed reservoir near Meliaputti across the ...

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Five more bodies recovered (Hindu)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:52:45 GMT

Chitrakonda (Orissa): Not much headway could be made in the retrieval of bodies of the Greyhound constables who met with a watery grave following an attack by Maoists on their launch in the Balimela reservoir, despite concerted efforts by the ...

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Eight more bodies of Greyhound squad recovered (Times of India)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:39:26 GMT

Rescue teams found eight more bodies of Andhra Pradesh's Greyhound commandos lying on the bed of the Balimela reservoir in Orissa.

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Orissa man set to skydive to his wedding (Times of India)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:39:25 GMT

Sisir Mishra will take the plunge quite literally into matrimony by skydiving into his heartthrob's house in Bhubaneswar.

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Past and present of the car festival at Jagannath (merinews - citizen powered media)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:51:09 GMT

Cuttack-based journalist Shiva Narayan Singh talks about the holiness of the 'rath yatra' of Lord Jagannnath of Puri in Orissa. He reflects on the Lord's eminence among his followers. The car festival symbolises synthesis, unity and integration.

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