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Independent probe demanded into Odisha RTI activist murder
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Feb 2:
A four-member fact finding team of human rights activists, which visited the home of Krupasindhu Sahu, the murdered RTI activist of Niali area in Odisha, today demanded the immediate arrest…
Odisha Election Watch to get National CSO Award from ECI
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 24:
Election commission of India (ECI) has selected Odisha Election Watch (OEW), the state chapter of National Election Watch, for the National CSO Award 2015.
OEW will receive the award…
Odisha conclave throws up eight-point agenda to end under nutrition of tribal children
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 16:
Participants at the two-day national conclave organized by ST and SC Development Department of Odisha government, SCST Research and Training Institute, Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs and…
Odisha rights panel mulling special cell for HRD cases: Justice Mishra
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 16:
Justice Bira Kishore Mishra, acting chairperson of Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC), today said the Commission is seriously considering setting up a special cell to handle Human Rights…
Odisha minister calls for concerted action to improve nutrition among tribal children
Reported by Santosh Jagdev
Bhubaneswar, Jan 15:
Odisha's Minister for Scheduled Tribe (ST) & scheduled Caste (SC) Development Lal Bihari Himirika today called for continuous efforts by many ministries, departments and stakeholders…
Odisha’s PPSS condemns Land Acquisition Ordinance
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 5:
POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is spearheading the mivement against the proposed mega steel plant being set up by Korean steel major Posco in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district,…
Death of girl in school: NHRC warns Odisha CS of coercive action
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 5:
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today sent a final reminder to the chief secretary of Odisha to compensate the next of kin (NOK) in the class-II student Sony Pradhan death case and…
Odisha civil society groups burn copies of Central ordinance on Land Acquisition Act
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 3:
Crying foul against the new ordinance on Land acquisition Act 2013 promulgated by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, members of civil society groups burnt the copies of the ordinance…
Odisha civil society groups to protest ordinance on Land Acquisition Act
Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jan 2:
Civil society groups in Odisha are organising a rally to protest the recent amendments to the Land Acquisition Act 2013 by the NDA government at the Centre through the ordinance route at …
ADR asks SIT to probe black money in elections
New Delhi, Dec 16:
The battle against black money will be incomplete without addressing the "free flow" of unaccounted money into the electoral process, ADR has said in a letter to the SIT probing unaccounted money of Indians abroad.…