The Congress election manifesto released here on Saturday for the forthcoming panchayat polls in the state portrays chief minister Naveen Patnaik as “Dashanan”, the 10-headed demon king.

In an act of shame and disgrace, 18 medicos were on Sunday caught while adopting malpractice during the post-graduate medical examinations here.

Apparently shaken by numerous reports of rape and molestation pouring in from different parts of the state almost everyday, and the Opposition parties mounting pressure for his resignation, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday called for an emergency meeting of senior officials and reviewed the law and order situation.

With little hope of her complete recovery, doctors of SCB Medical College, Cuttack, on Saturday started providing music therapy to a Pipili gangrape victim.
Doctors hope the 19-year-old girl, who is an avid music lover and emerging singer, will respond to the therapy and recover.

With little hope of her complete recovery, doctors of SCB Medical College, Cuttack, on Saturday started providing music therapy to a Pipili gangrape victim.

Doctors hope the 19-year-old girl, who is

Though the Orissa government is quite prompt in signing a number of memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with different MNCs and corporate houses for execution of different mega projects in the state, somehow due to the cumbersome procedure of the state administration in acquiring the land as well as handling issues arising out of the working in forest and non-forest land have stalled the progress of many big ticket projects like POSCO, Vedanta and Essar.

Under mounting pressure from the Opposition parties, women organisations, student forums and intellectual groups, Orissa agriculture minister and senior BJD leader Pradeep Maharathy stepped down from his post.

The Orissa police on Sunday arrested the accused in the much-hyped Pipili dalit girl gangrape case. The accused, Prasant Pradhan alias Pasei, was arrested at Jatni railway station where he was waiting for his train to escape police action.

The Orissa government on Thursday began culling of poultry birds at Kerang, near Khurda town, after detection of bird flu from the region.

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