Hundreds of farmers demonstrated in front of the collectorate on Wednesday in protest against delay in disbursement of compensation among famers of Hirakud area who had lost their paddy because of emission of poisonous gas from Hirakud-based Hindalco Aluminum smelter plant. They said the company management and district administration assured farmers to provide compensation at

The scale of opulence on display in student union elections may have gone down after the JM Lyngdoh committee recommendations in 2006 to keep political parties off the campus, but many under-graduate and post-graduate students are still taking a plunge into mainstream electoral politics. In the three-tier panchayat elections this year, several such students are

The Shyam Group of Industries announced the appointment of Odia cine star Anubhav Mohanty as its brand ambassador for SEL Thermex TMT Rebars. Its managing director Bhushan Agarwal said the image of Anubhav reflects the strength, solidarity and reliability of the product. Anubhav expressed pleasure at being associated with the brand. Shyam has its manufacturing

It was on August 11 last year when seven-year-old boy Guddu Prasad was allegedly run over by the car of a probationary judicial officer. The boy was on his way to school. The accident snatched Guddu’s parents of their only son and since then they have been running from pillar to post seeking justice.  The

Information available with Water Initiatives Odisha(WIO), a conglomerate of Civil Society Organisation working on water issue reveals that up to November 2011, industries and commercial establishments were yet to pay near to a whopping 3000 crore rupee water tax and fines for water they have drawn from the Hirakud reservoir.  The Orissa Hydro Power Corporation

Western Odisha Dalit Suraksha Parisad has demanded to the government to take action against the Bolangir collectore,Bolangir SP & the Khaprakhol thana in charge with this by condemning the incident of attacked on dalits at Lathor under Khaprakhol Thana of Bolangir district on Sunday the 22nd of January 2012, demanding Judicial inquiry into the incident.

Major political parties like the Congress and the BJP in Sambalpur have made BJD bashing their main poll plank ahead of the three-tier panchayat elections. They have been highlighting corrupt practices of the BJD in public meetings, rallies and door-to-door campaigns in the district. “Huge amount of money comes from the Centre for the improvement

Six primary class tribal students managed to run away from a Bhubaneswar-based residential school after they were allgedly disallowed to meet their parents, police said today. However, the students were rescued by the GRP at Khetrajpur railway station here, they said. “The children said they ran away from the hostel as they were not allowed

As a last resort to pressurise the State Government to act on their demands, villagers in the cut-off region on the other side of the Chitrakonda reservoir have threatened to boycott panchayat polls. In a meeting held at Gurusetu near Panasput, 30,000 tribals of 151 villages under six gram panchayats of Kudmulgumma block have reportedly

Despite the hype surrounding the three-tier panchayat polls with development being the buzz word in the district, the ground realities paint a sorry picture of the elected representatives. Many of them have been tainted with cases ranging from financial to criminal. Former Sarpanch of Tabla gram panchayat, Sanyasini Badhai was sentenced on Tuesday to two

The growing protests against the death of paddy saplings in the Hirakud Command Area are likely to cast a shadow on the poll prospects of the BJD. Though the BJD has made fresh inroads into the Congress bastion in Sambalpur district forcing it to go back-foot, the farmers issue may well help Congress retain the