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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
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
Between the issues of price hike and rising inflation - India sees another election knocking the doors: Although a part of the intelligentsia supports the move of the left parties to quit the alliance, majority of people still blame the left conglomerate for not taking up seriously the issues that affected people living at the grassroot level. Basudev Mahapatra >>> 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
How to Make Our Government Listen to Us: This dangerous development of not listening to the people has an important bearing as the survival of the people in the public life. If somebody listens to the people, that person has to tell the truth, which most of the time is hazardous for people enjoying power and position. An idea shared by Sachi Satpathy >>> Read More
Politics is for Man, not for a distinct Community: It has become a matter of dolor and contempt in the question of humanity that the politicians in guise of the fragmentary acquaintances of man have dethroned politics from the kingdom of heaven for the distinct privilege of the community having shattered the beauty of the whole society deviated from the true acquaintance of humanity. Sankar Sarkar >>> Read More
Orissa under Naveen Patnaik - Corruption and Lawlessness behind the face of Transparency: During his almost eleven years of political tenure, Naveen has been successful in making an image for himself as a CM and political boss who can take steps and decisions beyond the imaginations of people, political analysts and even his close aids. But at the end what people got in him is a ruler instead of a public leader in a democracy. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More
Hirakud Dam needs a proper management system to realise its objectives: Hirakud requires acquisition of an accurate body of knowledge on the capacity of the reservoir. The reservoir capacity of 5,818 million cubic meters at the time of the commissioning of the dam in 1957 is no longer correct as vast quantities of silts and sediments flowing into the reservoir steadily for the last fifty years have substantially reduced the capacity. Dr Nachiketa Das >>> Read More
Coming Election in Orissa would be a tough time for Naveen: In the last Assembly election the winning-losing margin was less then 2000 votes in 22 constituencies. In 2000, BJP’s vote ratio was 18.2% and which came down to 17.11% in 2004. And for BJD it was 29.4% and 27.36% respectively. Bibhuti Bhusan Pati >>> Read More
Slogans and Declarations can't banish Poverty from Orissa: Two Harvard economists studied 97 countries over 20 years to find out what drove their economic success and discovered quite unexpectedly that there was negative correlation between abundance of natural resources and economic well being. Bibhuti Bhusan Pati >>> Read More
Vedanta University - A Real Estate Deal in disguise: Vedanta University Project is the biggest land grab in the State of Orissa surpassing those in case of any industry planned by the reigning government so far. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More
Politics of Regional Nationality: Perhaps Raj doesn’t have the far-sight to see the next generation world or he is foreseeing the next generation world of his kind. Because Raj, as I believe, has never thought of a situation when all non-Maratha states of India react equally. Editorial >>> Read More
Orissa Assembly loses its sanctity: The behaviour of members engaged in a kind of vandalism on the Orissa Assembly floor and the teachers ransacking the Bargarh collector’s office are similar to a great extent and equally shocking. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More
Orissa - the ground of Police-Criminal-Bureaucracy Nexus: If Biranchi informed police about the illegal deportation of scraps, how people in the trade could know who the informer was? Editorial >>> Read More
Global Warming - India Never Takes it Serious: Experiencing the worst impacts of Climate Change, India is still debating over issues like global warming and conservation of biodiversity. HNF Bureau >>> Read More
Kandhamal Violence - A Caste Conflict termed as Communal: ...violence in Kandhamal should be taken as a caste conflict than a communal clash... Christmas gate issue was merely an opportunity for the Adivasis to express their anger against the Panas (SC). Scan of events by Basudev Mahapatra (Editorial) >>> Read More
Nandigram Issue goes out of Control: Nandigram is no more a village in West Bengal, but has become a political card that rules most of the political developments in the state. HNF Bureau >>> Read More
Kashipur - Flood put People in confinement, aftermath became a trail of death: It’s almost 20 years since a PM visited the place to see the misery of tribal people living in Kashipur. Thousands of Crores of rupees have been spent for the development of Kashipur. But this epidemic like situation brought to the light that tribals of Kashipur are still deprived of getting disinfected drinking water. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More
Industrialisation of Orissa - Development against people's will: Betrayed so many times, the tribal communities are blaming the government and bureaucrats for being unsympathetic and harsh to their problems, livelihood issues and rights. HNF Bureau >>> Read More
Kalahandi - Cursed with Industries: Kalahandi district is very well known as the hot pot of Orissa where atmospheric temperature crosses 50 Degree Celsius during usual summer. Social activists and environmentalists claim large-scale deforestation to be the major factor behind this... Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More
Naxal Movement in India: ... the way communist leaders responded to the issues of farmers and tribals insisted the young radicals break out of the Marxist fold and form their own group on Maoist line of Revolutionary Communism. Basudev Mahapatra >>> Read More
SORANA: Lot to speak, Nobody to listen: ...the mandate of the apex court could not prevent the then Orissa government, political leaders and the law enforcing wings from firing at people and standing by the Mafia violating all norms. HNF Investigation >>> Read More
KASHIPUR – Loaded with Political Promises: The place of starvation deaths, malnutrition and bureaucratic apathy, Kashipur has been relentlessly facing the wrath of nature in the form of flood and droughts. The people struggling to survive still remember the promises of Sonia Gandhi, the Chairperson of ruling UPA. HNF Bureau >>> Read More
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