The SC and ST Coordination Committee and other Dalit and tribal bodies here on Sunday demanded that the Government take immediate steps to arrest Patngarh MLA Saroj Kumar Meher for forcing Junior Engineer Jayakant Sabar to do sit-ups in […]
BHUBANESWAR: Sambit Behera from Bhubaneswar became the allIndia topper in the scheduled caste (SC) category of the JEE (Advanced) examination 2019, the results of which were published on Friday. He secured an all-India rank (AIR) of 45 in the coveted […]
Hundreds of women from anti-liquor movement in Rambhadeipur panchayat under Jagatsinghpur block on Friday staged a road blockade at Dhanipur on Cuttack-Machhagaon NH-55 demanding complete ban of liquor sale in their areas. As a result, traffic movements were completely paralyzed […]
Country’s first athlete to reveal she is in a same-sex relationship on freedom, happiness and the backlash to coming out Dutee Chand, India’s fastest sprinter and the nation’s first athlete to reveal she is in a same-sex relationship, doesn’t describe […]
They remain highly vulnerable to disaster, with weak resilience. Sulochana Das, a 35-year-old woman in the nondescript village of Sainsa Sasana, had little choice when her four-member family rushed to take refuge in a roadside shop as cyclone Fani menacingly […]
Cyclone Fani not only brought material losses but also revealed the dark side of casteism and discrimination that the dalit families continued to face even at the time of despair Binita Gochhayat still shudders as she recounts the frightening ordeal […]
It has been two weeks since Cyclone Fani left the coast of Odisha but many are still living under trees and bracing for monsoon. HIGHLIGHTS Cyclone Fani hit Odisha in the first week of May Cyclone left 64 people dead […]
Kendrapara: The family of a poor Dalit of Raghudeipur GP in Derabish block is taking shelter in a toilet after their thatched house was destroyed by cyclonic storm Fani. Sources said Khirod Jena, 58, had been maintaining his family of […]
On May 3, around 85 people were reportedly barred from three public shelters, even as the wind speed touched 200 km per hour. In a disturbing incident that has been reported in the Odisha media, around 25 Dalit families are […]
According to police and administrative officials, several scuffles have been reported over the past week, triggered by frustration. STRUGGLING WITHOUT power, irregular supply of water and relief material for seven days, people in cyclone-hit Puri district face another problem — […]
