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‘Unauthorised’ Structures Demolished At Joranda Mahima Temple Premises In…
Dhenkanal: Amid tight security, a demolition and eviction drive was launched by the authorities at the main shrine of Mahima Gadee at Joranda in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district to remove…
Dhenkanal Diary: The Wall On My Land
Land is a precious commodity in Dhenkanal and there's no escaping wheeler-dealers if you have an ancestral or a self-owned patch here. A mini industry of sorts with an assortment of dubious…
NGT Seeks Affidavit From Odisha On Action For Illegal Mining
Cuttack: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Odisha government to file a fresh affidavit on action taken for illegal mining in a black stone quarry under Hindol tehsil in…
Dhenkanal Diary: Kutunia, A Sad Tale Of Human Savagery
Nestled in the luxuriant spread of deciduous forests of a branch of the Eastern Ghats, Dhenkanal does not really need any beauty-enhancing intervention to be more attractive to outsiders,…
Pvt Company Worker Shot At In Odisha
Dhenkanal: A worker engaged by a vendor of Tata Steel was shot at by an unidentified miscreant at Talabahali road under Kantabania police limits in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district on Monday.…
Dhenkanal Diary: Bypass Road – Welcome To The Big Open-Air Bar
In conservative Dhenkanal, the fascination for tipples among the young population stands out as odd. Once the staple of the social deviant, alcohol appears to have been normalised through…
[Watch] Villagers Say No Wedding Without ‘Handia’ In Odisha’s…
Bhubaneswar: Silly it may be, but believe it or not, a wedding could not be solemnised in a tribal village in Dhenkanal’s Kamakhyanagar on Monday after the groom’s family reportedly failed…
Tribal Head Stops Couple’s Marriage For Not Serving Hooch In Odisha’s…
Dhenkanal: The head of a tribal community stopped the marriage of a couple midway for violation of the tradition of serving 'handia' (country liquor) to the guests in the reception in…
Former Prof & Head Of IIMC-Dhenkanal Vepa Rao Passes Away
Hyderabad: Former head of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal, in Odisha, Prof Vepa Rao, breathed his last while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad…
Dhenkanal Diary: Graveyard Of Memories
Childhood memories - some hazy, some sharply contoured and some imagined and exaggerated - are a serviceable reference point for assessment of change in the lives of people over time. The…