Word: orissa
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...hand at tabulating stations in the electoral districts, the scope of the Congress Party's reversal reached dramatic proportions. Down to defeat went five Cabinet ministers, four state chiefs, and even the president of the Congress Party. The party lost control of governments in three states-Kerala, Orissa and Madras-and fell short of a majority in five others, in which it will almost certainly have to form coalitions with opposition parties...
...very beneficial for India: they want to dismantle the country's stifling socialistic bureaucracy and adopt a form of free enterprise that would attract needed foreign investment. In a limited way, Swatantra will get a chance, since it will head a coalition government in the eastern state of Orissa...
...home of a near neighbor of the Prime Minister-India's Solicitor General Hem Nath Sanyal. Late one night four men broke into Sanyal's bungalow and choked him to death with a dhoti, or loincloth. Since Sanyal had been pressing corruption charges against several ministers of Orissa state, members of Parliament cried that his murder must be connected with the investigation-though Delhi's police insisted it was only a robbery attempt...
...mill, in Rourkela in the state of Orissa, is being built with the help of German capital and engineers. The other is the Soviet-designed Bhilai steel mill, rising, a month behind schedule, on what was once a wilderness on the sun-scorched plain of central India. To a large extent, the two mills-along with one more being built with British help and another with American, each of 1,000,000 ingot ton capacity-represent the chief hope of India's shaky economy. They are also playing a significant role in the complicated drama of the cold...
...Indian Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari signed an agreement with the Soviet Union for a twelve-year $125 million loan, and last week West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was on the verge of okaying $143 million in credits toward construction of a new steel plant in iron-rich Orissa. Other loans may come from Japan and the Colombo Plan nations...