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Kalahandi from hunger deaths to a rice revolution
New Delhi :: India | 1 month ago
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Odisha's Kalahandi district once the cause of global embarrassment for India due to its high number of starvation deaths today stands tall with a five-fold increase in its rice production since 1999, figures reveal. The agriculture ministry's recent
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Fire at Odisha Secretariat
Mumbai :: India | 1 month ago
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A fire broke out at the health and family welfare department of the Odisha state secretariat in Bhubaneswar on Saturday, destroying some official documents and furniture, police sources said. According to sources, panic-stricken employees ran out of
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Naveen's Roman script speech goes viral, draws flak
Mumbai :: India | 1 month ago
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A photo of Naveen Patnaik's Oriya speech written in Roman script that has gone viral in social networking site Facebook has sparked outrage over his lack of interest in learning the language. The photo was posted by one Rajat Dash on his Facebook
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Two more accused in Graham Staines murder case arrested
Mumbai :: India | 1 month ago
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F ourteen years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burnt alive in Odisha, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested two more accused in the case from Keonjhar district. The two, identified as Ghanshyam
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Naxals strong in non-Congress ruled states: Jairam Ramesh
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 1 month ago
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Addressing a 'Parivartan Rally' in Bordha village of Dhar district yesterday, Ramesh said: "Naxalism is strong only in those states where Congress is not in power like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha among others." He however said that in BJP-
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Trigger for romance
Mumbai :: India | 1 month ago
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Padmakumar's Orissa is a love story set in a feudal backdrop...A photograph of a hut guarded by a policeman triggered this story of love in Orissa. I was struck by that grim photograph of a girl who had to live under the shadow of the gun. I wondered
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Police solve Sector 4 dacoity in Panchkula, arrest three
New Delhi :: India | 1 month ago
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Police have solved the late-night dacoity that had taken place at the house of a city businessman in Sector 4 on Monday by arresting three people, including two women. Investigations have revealed that the two women were notorious "criminals" and one
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Water row: A.P., Odisha irrigation officials inspect Neradi barrage site
Srīkākulam :: India | 1 month ago
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Andhra Pradesh and Odisha irrigation officials on Wednesday began a weeklong joint inspection of the site where Neradi barrage is proposed to be constructed to find an amicable solution to the sharing of Vamsadhara waters. The inspection was taken up
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Bhitarkanika bans tourists as crocodiles nest
Noida :: India | 1 month ago
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A two-and-half-month ban on the entry of tourists and visitors to the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha was imposed Wednesday as the crocodile nesting season was underway, an official said. The park, in the coastal Kendrapada district, about 170
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BJP rules out alliance with BJD in next election
Bhubaneswar :: India | 1 month ago
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Ruling out any alliance with its erstwhile partner BJD in Odisha for next elections, BJP today said it would fight the poll battle on its own strength. "There will be no electoral understanding with the BJD. Neither pre-poll nor post-poll alliance
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