Earlier even, as he struggled with colon cancer at Divine Word Monastery in Mumbai, his concern for Kandhamal stood out. In August 2015, he called me on the day I was summoned to appear before the ...

The Church in India has welcomed the news that the Vatican will initiate the beatification process for the 35 Catholic martyrs of Kandhamal who were killed in the 2008 Christian persecution in the ...

Hindu women cry during the burial of Sudho Pradhan in a Christian cemetery near Kandhamal, India, Aug. 8, 2015. Pradhan had been critical of orchestrated anti-Christian violence in the region.

Borimunda, India, February 10 (ENInews) – Junos Nayak's family owns more than ten acres of land in Gadaguda, a village in the Kandhamal district in eastern India, but his turmeric and rice fields have ...

KANDHAMAL: Turmeric growers of Kandhamal are a happy lot. For the first time in 13 years, many of them have been able to sell turmeric (whole turmeric fingers) at Rs 100 per kg this month. In the ...

It is eight years since communal violence swept the second poorest, deeply-forested district of Odisha, Kandhamal. We must not allow the erasure of this hate violence from public memory ...

BHUBANESWAR: Conversion and re-conversion were among the major factors which led to the riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district last year, a judicial commission probing the violence has said.

A year after the famed organic turmeric of Odisha’s Kandhamal district received the geographical indication (GI) tag, thousands of farmers who hoped to make a profit out of the tag are cursing ...

The Berhampur security has been tightened in Kandhamal district which has a sizeable Christian population ahead of Christmas celebrations on Sunday. 27 Platoons of police forces and several ...

Christmas was joyously celebrated in the communally sensitive Kandhamal district of Odisha on Wednesday, a sign that peace and harmony has returned to the area. Forgetting the riots in 2007 and ...

New Delhi, May 5: The killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati in Kandhamal district in 2008 was carried out by forces who had envisaged subsequent collateral damage, a new book released today said.