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Beat ‘em Up
Soro in Balasore district has suddenly caught everyone’s attention because of a particular incident a few days ago. The story goes that a woman had bribed a District Inspector of Schools to get her ad hoc…
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Problematic Lama
The Dalai Lama has flown to the USA and met President Barak Obama at the White House. Not only the spiritual leader of Tibetans, the Lama has long become an icon for freedom and struggle in…
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Leading Astray
The intelligence set up in this country is totally defunct. The nation is completely dependent on inept Indian Police Service officials, nay, call them employees, for every kind of security related operations. They are neither interested…
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Tangible Conviction
Gurudas Kamat, given independent charge of a potential ministry such as drinking water and sanitation, resigned because he was not promoted to Cabinet, not seeing what possibilities lay in what he had been offered. Vilasrao Deshmukh…
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Red alert
The Maoist menace in the state has steadily been on the rise. The incidents of Maoist attacks have gone up many folds even as the state government gives tall statements of how everything is under control.…
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To Win
Mankind has always dreamt of winning. Phrases like ‘Ends justify means’ and ‘Winner is never questioned’ have been at the base of our mental development. From uncivilized barbaric to today’s modern sophisticated man, the effort has…
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No Daily Bread
In a very disturbing development, the State has witnessed a sharp decline in the number of farmers, indicating the trend of cultivators opting out of farming. The data released by Directorate of Economics and Statistics reveals…
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Gust of Dust
President Barack Obama of the US of A, in a speech at Philadelphia recently, has stated that students of India, China and Brazil are snatching away job opportunities that should ideally come to Americans. In an…
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He truly is not the He
The Rath Yatra this year went off smoothly. Chariots started out, more or less on time. Most newspapers and their Sunday editions carried stories on the festival. The uniqueness of this festival is that these are…
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Forget Forgiveness
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is on a merry ‘forgive and forget’ trip. Recently, he was felicitated by the Kendriya Guru Singh Sabha (KGSS) for delinking some 142 deadly ‘wanted’ Sikhs from the Government’s List. The…
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Another Raise: So Be It
Diesel, Cooking Gas and Kerosene have now become dearer. Petrol has undergone its share of price hikes and people have learnt to accept all these with equanimity. The increase this time cannot be termed as a…
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Choice is really ours
Wangari Maathai is a name most of us had never heard of till the lady won a Nobel. A citizen and also a former minister of Kenya in Africa, this woman has planted and nourished 10…