Posts Tagged ‘odisha’

Atrocities against SCs and STs in Odisha shows an increasing trend – NCRB report 2021

The state is featured among the top five states having more number of atrocity cases against SCs and STs. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its annual report Crime in India 2021 captures the trends of crime in our country. The report contains crime against vulnerable sections such as women, children, senior citizens and SC’s […]

Church shuttered in Odisha, India after allegations of conversion by ‘allurement’

Photo Credit: FreeWorldMaps.net (Barnabas Aid) — A church in Odisha state, eastern India, has been sealed with a ban imposed on gathering for worship. The local administration placed the restraining order on Believers Church, Geltua village in Bhadrak district on May 17. District officials said they based their decision on complaints received that tribal… Views: […]

An Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Odisha over the ongoing police repression in Dhinkia

    To, Shri Naveen PattnaikChief Minister of Odisha Dear Shri Pattnaik, We, the undersigned, are shocked and deeply concerned over the ongoing police repression on the peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha who for seventeen years have used the most democratic means to resist the […]

SCs still the most neglected in Odisha -Institutional mechanism is not effective

The social groups whose development is more linked to radical social change are the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Odisha. The Government of India Scheduled Castes Order 1936 had identified 54 sub-caste groups of Odisha as SCs but during last 70 years, the number of sub caste has increased in State and currently till 2015 it […]

Baby boy snatched by monkey found dead in Odisha, India

     The body of a 16-day-old boy, who snatched by a monkey from his home in Odisha’s Cuttack district, was recovered from a well in the backyard of the house on Sunday morning. The incident occured in Talabasta village in Banki on Saturday at the residence of Rama Krushna Nayak, boy’s father. The body was […]

4 killed in separate lightning strikes across Odisha, India

     At least four people including a woman were killed in separate lighting strikes on Wednesday as heavy rains lashed large parts in Odisha. According to reports, the lighting struck a man at Govindpur village under Kuchinda block in Sambalpur district. A woman from Srirampur village under Bari block of Jajpur district and an old […]

Lightning strikes kill at least 10 across Odisha, India

     At least ten persons were killed and five others were injured after lightning struck people in at least five districts across Odisha. As per reports, a husband-wife duo was killed in the lightning strike this afternoon at Jatia village under Sarang gram panchayat in Dhenkanal district. The deceased have been identified as Nityananda Behera […]

Iran-EU economic coop. center opens in Germany

Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, said Tuesday during the opening ceremony for Iran-EU center for economic cooperation in Berlin that the nuclear deal has presented the opportunity for a fresh round of cooperation between Iran and western countries, particularly Germany. He added the center, the idea of which was proposed […]

Six EU member countries request Brussels for extension and 2-year internal border control

     Six European countries reportedly want to maintain border control within the EU beyond the period the Schengen free travel agreement allows for. The measure was imposed in response to the influx of asylum seekers from the Middle East. Temporary border controls between members of the Schengen treaty can last no longer than for eight […]

Media blackout: Russia tells UN Security Council that Turkey is ‘main supplier’ of weapons to ISIS, uses humanitarian convoys to deliver weapons

     Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in a letter to the UN Security Council that Turkey is the main supplier of weapons to ISIS — but the media doesn’t seem impressed The western media has been almost completely silent about a rather explosive accusation leveled against Turkey: According to Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, […]

Woman with Asperger’s who touched millions of lives, gunned down by police

     Danielle Jacobs, 24, brought tears to the internet’s eyes last year after she posted a video of what she felt like with Asperger’s syndrome. In the video, Jacobs recorded herself during one of her ‘meltdowns,’ which showed her trying to punch herself, but being comforted by her Rottweiler instead. “This is what having Asperger’s […]

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