Golap Swain, 30, from Siko village of Odisha’s Khordha district has been waiting desperately to return home. She and other women migrants, who work in a garment factory in Bengaluru, have registered on the Odisha government’s portal, but there is […]
Mayurbhanj, Odisha: Bajuram Marandi counts himself among the lucky ones. He managed to leave Bengaluru, where he was employed as a construction worker for two years, and return to his village in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district days before the lockdown was […]
On Monday, May 4 residents of a Coronavirus containment zone (Nala Road) in Rourkela, Odisha, reportedly attacked ground-level health workers who had gone to take away the contacts of a 29-year-old female Coronavirus patient for quarantine. The patient had tested […]
Historically, the idea of Bengali renaissance and anti-colonial struggles dominated the folklores of Indian intellectual awakening, political consciousness, and social reforms led by upper caste and upper-class Hindus. “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow” reflects Eurocentric propaganda based on […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the judgment passed by the Orissa High Court quashing a resolution of the state government regarding quota in promotion of SCs/STs. The apex court has made it clear that reservation in promotion of […]
CUTTACK: The lockdown imposed to contain the transmission of COVID-19 has exposed the ugly face of poverty in some rural pockets of Cuttack where people were forced to mortgage their ration cards with local money lenders for a meager return. […]
Police in Odisha’s Cuttack have arrested 25 Muslim men for pelting stones at them while enforcing the 48-hour shutdown as part of the state government’s measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 disease. Cuttack deputy commissioner of police Akhileswar Singh […]
Thousands of migrant workers from Odisha, who are stranded in other states due to the 21-day nation-wide lockdown for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), are sending distress calls for food to anyone who can help. Around 15 labourers from Odisha’s […]
In Mapada, a village of 120 Dalit households in Balangir district of western Odisha, writer Gunjan Veda meets 97-year-old Bishwanath Baghel. He tells the story of his life in the Ganda Bajaa, an instrumental music orchestra that has men belonging […]
A memorandum has been sent to the Odisha CM and respective District Collectors of 15 districts Four hundred and two gram sabhas in 15 districts of Odisha have passed resolutions against the National Population Register (NPR), National Register of Citizens […]
