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BHUBANESWAR: About 3,000 people this past week converged in Orissa's Ghanteswara Village, about 200 kilometers from Bhubaneswar, the State capital, to witness a wedding ceremony of two monkeys, said a BBC report. The "bride" was dressed in a five-metre long sari and decked in flowers for the wedding ceremony. (India Times, India)
Creating more CV Ramans Feb 29, 2008
BHUBANESWAR: As topics like global warming and climate change have taken the centrestage because of environmental concerns world over, students and science enthusiasts of the Capital on Thursday celebrated the 22nd National Science Day with its theme Understanding our planet earth with great enthusiasm. An awareness rally was organised by Regional Science Centre (RSC) in association with schoolstudents which started from DM School on Regional Institute of Education campus and culminated at RSC... (Newindpress)
India's monkey 'wedding' draws thousands of guests Feb 26, 2008
By Sandeep Sahu Bhubaneswar ... The monkey marriage took place some 200km (125 miles) from the Orissa state capital, Bhubaneswar. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Naveen offers olive branch to Maoists Feb 25, 2008
BHUBANESWAR: Less than 10 days after the Maoists unleashed a nightmarish offensive on sleepy Nayagarh, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday exhibited his intent to buy peace for Orissa, yet again offering the olive branch to the Red rebels. The CM's offer for peace talks to the extremists, though conditional, is considered significant and coincided with the combing operations underway in southern Orissa to flush out the extremists. (India Times, India -- Community News)
India tests pilot-less Lakshya Feb 21, 2008
BHUBANESWAR: India on Wednesday successfully tested pilot-less target aircraft Lakshya from a base in Orissa, defence sources said. The indigenously developed aircraft flight was tested from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea in the district of Balasore, some 230 km from here. (Times of India)
Centre rushes 4 companies to Orissa Feb 20, 2008
According to agency reports from Bhubaneswar, IAF choppers are being used to spot Naxals inside the jungles and sniffer dogs have been deployed to lead the forces to their hideouts in Gosmah forests. The sniffer dogs will also help minimise casualties of the security personnel on account of landmine and clamour mines laid by the Maoists in the jungles. (India Times)
* Indian troops hunt rebels Feb 19, 2008
AP, BHUBANESWAR, INDIA Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008, Page 5. Indian government troops scoured forests in eastern India for Maoist rebels yesterday and reported killing up to 20 of them since the militants launched a coordinated wave of attacks on government targets late last week. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
After Nayagarh Feb 19, 2008
As a massive attack on the town of Nayagarh 90 km from Bhubaneswar shows, the Naxalite threat needs to be taken seriously. Thirteen police officers and two others were killed, while the Naxals made off with roughly a thousand weapons stolen from the city's armoury, including sophisticated light arms. (India Times, India)
Maoists flee, leaving arms behind Feb 19, 2008
BHUBANESWAR: Along with IAF choppers on constant sorties, hundreds of security personnel on Monday scoured the hills and dense forests of Nayagarh in southern Orissa and recovered a truckload of arms and ammunition lying abandoned, giving the impression that the Maoists - facing a fierce counteroffensive from the state's forces - fled in disarray. While there wasn't any Maoist casualty on Monday unlike the previous day when 20 of the rebels were killed in a series of encounters, the recovery of... (India Times, India)
Indian archaeologists excited by discovery of ancient city Feb 19, 2008
By Sandeep Sahu Bhubaneswar ... The remains have been discovered at Sisupalgarh near Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern state of Orissa ... "The actual area excavated so far is only a minuscule part of the city. How does one determine the size of the average family in a period about which very little historical literature or evidence is available? Some historians say it's too early to say anything conclusive about the place "Besides, the comparison with Athens is odious since it was not a... (BBC News -- South Asia)
Orissa Assembly adjourned over Maoists attack Feb 18, 2008
BHUBANESWAR: The Maoists attack in Nayagarh at five police establishments which left 14 policemen dead rocked the Orissa assembly on Monday forcing it to be adjourned for 110 minutes with the entire Opposition demanding a discussion on the killings. As soon as the House assembled for the day, Leader of Opposition J B Patnaik said a discussion on the issue should be taken up by suspending the question hour in view of its importance involving public interest. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Militant attacks in India leave 15 dead Feb 17, 2008
BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) -- Hundreds of Maoist militants attacked six police compounds in eastern India in carefully coordinated attacks, killing 13 police personnel, an unarmed village guard and one civilian and seizing at least 1,000 stolen pistols, police officials said Saturday. The Friday night attacks -- on four police stations, one training academy and an armory -- were scattered across Nayagarh district in Orissa state, said Gopal Chandra Nanda, director general of the state police. (CNN -- World)
14 killed by Maoist rebels in India Feb 17, 2008
BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) Hundreds of Maoist militants stormed six police compounds in eastern India in carefully coordinated attacks Friday night, killing 13 police personnel and one civilian, a top police official said ... The attacks - on four police stations, one training academy and an armory - were scattered across the Nayagarh district, about 60 miles from Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state, said Gopal Chandra Nanda, director general of the state police. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
* Maoists kill 14 in India Feb 17, 2008
Only one victim was a civilian AFP, BHUBANESWAR, INDIA Sunday, Feb 17, 2008, Page 4 ... The attack took place in the mineral-rich coastal state's Nayagarh district, 100km west of the state capital Bhubaneswar. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Indian Maoists kill 14 in Orissa Feb 16, 2008
The attack, which occurred 90km (56 miles) from the state capital, Bhubaneswar, is seen as a sign the rebels are extending their operations. So far they had confined their attacks in Orissa to the underdeveloped south and west of the state. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Maoist Attackers Kill 13 in Raid on India Police Feb 16, 2008
The attacks on four police stations, one training academy and an armory were scattered across the Nayagarh district, about 60 miles from Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state, said Gopal Chandra Nanda, director general of the state police. Share. (Fox News)
14 killed in Naxal attack in Orissa Feb 16, 2008
BHUBANESWAR: Fourteen police personnel, including two women, and a civilian were killed when around 500 heavily armed Naxals attacked a police training school, armoury and a police station in Nayagarh district of Orissa late on Friday. They also took away a cache of arms and ammunition in a bus they had hijacked in the district, about 100 km from here. (India Times, India)
Many killed in India Maoist attack Feb 16, 2008
At least 1,000 pistols were stolen during the co-ordinated attacks on Friday in Nayagarh district, about 80kms from the city of Bhubaneswar. Rajesh Kumar, the Nayagarh police chief, said the attack lasted several hours. (Aljazeera.Net)
Maoists kill 13 police in India's Orissa state Feb 16, 2008
The simultaneous attacks on towns in Orissa's Nayagarh district began late on Friday and lasted for several hours, superintendent of police Rajesh Kumar told Reuters from Nayagarh town, just 80 km (50 miles) southwest of the state capital, Bhubaneswar. Today in Asia - Pacific. (International Herald Tribune)
13 police dead after major Maoist attack in eastern India Feb 16, 2008 Angry Lalu shifts 3 railway officials Feb 14, 2008 2,500-year-old city found in Orissa Feb 11, 2008 Tyre bursts, flight averts crash Feb 8, 2008 Dubai-based NRI family had Bapu`s ashes Jan 31, 2008 'Gangster Brijesh Singh had plans to shift to Kolkata' Jan 27, 2008 IIT alumni to coach 1,000 budding entrepreneurs Jan 24, 2008 CRPF men to stay in Kandhamal till March 15 Jan 23, 2008 Bangladeshi convict nabbed from Puri hotel Jan 22, 2008 Two killed, 25 injured in bus accident in Orissa Jan 21, 2008 Nearly nine lakh birds visit Chilika lagoon Jan 11, 2008 Canada keen to invest in Orissa Jan 10, 2008 Atmosphere in Kandhamal calm, says Orissa CM Jan 9, 2008 NACP-III: Voluntary blood testing centres to be opened Jan 9, 2008 Satyam plans major overseas expansion Jan 4, 2008
BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) - Maoist rebels in eastern India have shot dead 13 police and a civilian in the worst attack by the leftist insurgents in months, officials said Saturday ... The attack took place in the mineral-rich coastal state's Nayagarh district, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of the state capital Bhubaneswar. (Yahoo! Asia News)
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I will have to report at Bhubaneswar. Hussain, who also received his transfer order the same day, assumed charge as senior DCM, Mysore on Tuesday. (India Times, India)
BHUBANESWAR: From under the ruins of an ancient fort on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, archaeologists have dug out the remains of a 2,500-year-old city which they believe was bigger than classical Athens. Eighteen pillars were found among the remnants of the grand city at Sishupalgarh, a ruined fortification first discovered 60 years ago. (India Times, India)
A Mumbai-Bhubaneswar IndiGo flight was also diverted to Kolkata in the morning due to poor visibility at Bhubaneswar. The flight landed at 10. (Times of India)
The last time an urn of Gandhi`s ashes was found was in 1997 in a bank vault in Bhubaneswar. The ashes were later immersed at the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers in Allahabad. (Zee News)
BHUBANESWAR: Gangster Brijesh Singh, who with his guile and luck managed to evade the cops across the country for more than two decades, would have tricked the police yet again if he had done what he had planned: Move his operations to Kolkata ... During his interrogation, he confirmed he was planning to leave Bhubaneswar and had also booked his luggage for Kolkata on January 28, police officers investigating the case said ... Seeming to confirm this, a source in the English-medium school in... (Times of India)
The event would be held simultaneously in Chennai, Kochi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Kanpur, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Patna, Bhubaneswar and Guwahati. Former President, A P J Abdul Kalam would address the entrepreneurs from Hyderabad and it would be simultaneously telecast at all venues. (India Times, India -- Community News)
KalingaTimes Correspondent Bhubaneswar, Jan 22: The Centre on Tuesday agreed to Orissa government's request to retain all the seven battalions of Central Reserve Police Force in violence-hit Kandhamal district of the State ... 5 crore to Rs 60 crore, and a special grant of Rs 30 crore for the Training Resource Centre (TRC) with Special Operations Group (SOG) under construction at Chandaka near Bhubaneswar. (KalingaTimes)
Arman had been living in Bhubaneswar for eight months. He shifted to Puri three months ago and had been operating a car smuggling racket. (India Times, India -- Community News)
BHUBANESWAR: At least two persons were killed and 25 sustained burn injuries when a tourist bus from Madhya Pradesh caught fire at Kalpana Chhuk here in the city on early Monday, police said. The tourist bus carrying nearly 75 persons, mostly aged and elders, was on a visit to Puri. (India Times, India -- Community News)
KalingaTimes Correspondent Bhubaneswar, Jan 9: Serene brackish water lagoon Chilika in Orissa is now bustling with the chirping of lakhs of winged visitors from far off regions of the world. Nearly nine lakh birds have now gathered in different pockets of the lake. (KalingaTimes)
A number of Canadian companies are interested to invest in Orissa's mining sector,' Canada's High Commissioner to India David Malone told reporters in Bhubaneswar after meeting Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Malone said though nearly 100 Canadian companies were active in the country, only five or six of them have put their money in mineral rich Orissa. (News Today)
BHUBANESWAR: A fortnight after communal violence rocked Orissa's tribal-dominated Kandhamal district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday claimed the atmosphere in the area was "calm" even as a National Human Rights Commission team arrived here to visit the violence-affected areas. "The situation in Kandhamal district has improved to a great extent. The atmosphere is calm in the entire district," he told reporters. (Times of India)
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Orissa has embarked on implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Control Programme (NACP), Phase-III, it officially has only 7,788 HIV-afflicted persons. The prevalence is based on blood tests carried out in the State till November-end last year. (Newindpress)
The company also plans to expand in cities like Nagpur and Bhubaneswar, while it eyes other tier-II cities in north and south India. The domestic market, which contributes around 3% to Satyams revenue, is not expected to see any dramatic increase in its revenue contribution, due to lower margins, Mr Thalapalli said. (India Times)
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