Brahmagiri, Puri District: There’s nowhere to go beyond Talamala. It is the last village in Puri district’s Brahmagiri block in eastern Odisha, sandwiched between the Bay of Bengal and the Chilika lake. When Cyclone Fani swept through Talamala at 240 […]
JAGATSINGHPUR: Twenty-two Dalit families of Repurpatana village under Tirtol police limits are living in constant fear after the upper castes allegedly ostracised them by barring them from shops, temples and even farmlands. The situation worsened on Tuesday when upper-caste men […]
KENDRAPARA: Unable to bear acute poverty and torture by her husband, a Dalit woman committed suicide along with her minor daughter on Wednesday evening. The 26-year-old woman, Sasmita Sethi was married to daily wage earner Bharat Sethi of Karanja village […]
A four-member delegation of the Odisha Dalit Adhikar Manch (ODAM) comprising Prasanta Mallick, Surendra Bhoi, Rajiv Naik and Dalli Mallick met Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal and handed over a memorandum to him on Saturday. They cited that the after the […]
As per the Panchayat Raj Act, a third of agricultural land of a village panchayat has to be given to Dalits. Auction is to happen every year before paddy season. FOR THE second time in Sangrur, auction of panchayat land […]
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 […]
