Bhubaneswar: Odisha DGP Y B Khurania on Saturday ordered an inquiry by CID sleuths into the mysterious death of a "ganja smuggler" who was allegedly beaten up by policemen in Kandhamal district.

Phulbani: An ultra leader identified as Samaya Madkam, who was previously ill-reputed for his notorious activities, surrendered today before police in Kandhamal district. He was the committee member ...

Then I’ll leave you to come to your own conclusion. I interviewed him after the horrific killings of Christians in Kandhamal in 2008. Not only had they shaken the country, they’d battered ...

BERHAMPUR : Despite recent security operations targeting Maoist activity in Kandhamal and Boudh districts, the Red rebels of Kalahandi-Kandhamal-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) group once again asserted ...

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 ...

Aug. 23 marked the 15th anniversary of one of the worst Christian persecutions in Indian history: the Kandhamal bloodshed in the eastern state of Odisha in which nearly 100 people were brutally ...

It was 15 years ago when remote Kandhamal district in India’s eastern Odisha state witnessed the worst, organized anti-Christian violence in two millennia of Christianity in India, fetching the ...

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 ...

A new documentary follows the lives of 10 of the men responsible for horrific attacks on the Kandhamal church. “Christ is indeed alive at the ground zero of the worst [Christian] persecution in ...

An elderly woman beggar has donated her entire savings worth Rs 1 lakh for the repair and renovation of the Shree Jagannath temple in her area in Kandhamal district of Odisha. She had saved the amount ...

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 ...

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 ...