By Akhand in Bhubaneswar, India
India was one of the first in Asia to recognize the effectiveness of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) model in promoting exports, with Asia’s first EPZ set up in Kandla in 1965. With a view to overcome the shortcomings experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls and clearances; absence of [...]
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Bhubaneswar (India):
The Indian police detained Mr. David Pugh, a teacher from the USA on 12th August along with advocate Miss Protima Das and an anti-displacement activist Mr. Devendra Das who accompanied him assisting in translation and showing the area in Kalinganagar and Sukinda on their way back to Orissa state Capital Bhubaneswar.
The US national who [...]
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By Akhand in Bhubaneswar (India)
Nava Pradhan (named changed), the 42-year-old HIV-infected grade-four staff of a nationalised bank at Kendrapara in Indian coastal state Orissa, died at his home on Tuesday. He was pushed into a state of deep agony and distress from where there was no return.
Nava, who was ostracised in his village, was also [...]
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BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Human Rights Commission in India has pulled up the state police for unlawful entry into the house of one Bhaskar Behera of Athagarh on the night of June 14 2007 night leading to his death.
Directing the state government to initiate departmental proceedings against the erring police officials, the commission has awarded a [...]
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Bhubaneswar (India): Kamala Sethi, 26, has spent 15 years chained to a pole by her family that cannot afford medical treatment for her mental illness.
Both her legs have been tied with a rope and a chain connecting it is tied to a wooden pole in a straw-thatched room that the family earlier used as a [...]
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Bhubaneswar: The union Rural Development ministery on thursday told that the Distress migration in different parts of Orissa has notebly decreased after the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).
Addressing a round table conference on collaboration with Universities, Technological and Management Institutes organized by the Rural Development Ministry in NewDelhi, the Union Rural [...]
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Bhubaneswar:
HDFC Bank recently launched India’s first ‘online market linkage programme’ for Self Help Groups (SHGs).
In the first stage, the programme will include orissa artisans engaged in the Applique work in Pipili, stone carving from puri and making of sambalpuri sarees. It also creat market linkage for artisans working in Chikan embroidery work on garments from [...]
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Bhubaneswar:
The 16-year-old tribal girl, Rebati Kanhar, who was admitted to the SCB Medical college and Hospital in cuttack for treatment of her rare genetic disorder in her face and other parts of the body, has been discharged after undergoing surgery.
“Rebati has been discharged from the hospital on Thursday after undergoing some surgery”, said Superintendent of [...]
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