An initiative started by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation for empowering the transgender community has started yielding results. A self-help group consisting of ten transgender persons has bagged the national level sanitation award. Writer: Pratibha Sahu The team, known as Bahuchara […]
The candidates will have to pay Rs 200 online as application fee. Woman candidates, transgender woman candidates and candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) are exempted from payment of fees. BY SHARMILI MALLICK The office of the […]
Jajpur: A Dalit youth allegedly faced police brutality inside Ramchandrapur police station in Odisha’s Jajpur district on Saturday. One Banku Mallick of Bari Gram Panchayat had allegedly run away with a girl of the same village. The Ramchandrapur police started […]
While more than 60 percent of Indian women are anaemic as they eat last and the least, rising hunger levels hit the marginalised most. By Suchitra Kalahandi, India – On September 3, Ranjita Majhi, a 33-year-old Kui speaking Khond woman […]
Dalit Christian families are living in fear in the eastern Indian state of Odisha after being ostracized by Hindu activists for their faith. The five families were chased out of Lodamila village in Kandhamal district and told that they could […]
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a compliance report from the Collector, Dhenkanal, Odisha with payment proof of Rs 7 lakh to a minor student who is sexual violence victim, within six weeks. The NHRC also issued notice to […]
Nabarangpur: Small fight led to tense situation at Sanagumuda village under Kodigaon police limits of Nabarangpur district today. A Dalit woman was manhandled and her family ostracised in a people’s court in the village after she was convicted of pushing […]
