Kendrapada,September 23 ( Odisha.in ) At least 25 houses were devoured by the sea in the Satabhaya and Kanhupur villages under Rajnagar block of Kendrapada during last two days . Due to low pressure in the Bay of Bengal coupled with tidal waves . twenty feet high tidal waves crawled menacingly into the villages for […]
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Kendrapada: Minor languishes in jail
Kendrapada, September 9 (Odisha.in) A minor college student has been allegedly languishing in the Sub-Jail in Kendrapada since more than one year thanks to the gross negligence on the parts of the police. Bibhuti Bhusan Das a 16-year old + 2 art student of Madanpur college in Rajnagar was arrested last year on the alleged […]
Orissa farmers depend more on informal credit says study
Kendrapada, September 5 (odisha. in) Large numbers of farmers in Orissa are depending on village moneylenders-a part of informal credit systems still thrive in rural areas of the state as formal credit providers such as bank or societies don’t listen to them a researcher found. In the post- economic reform period, there has been a […]
Idol makers face poverty
Kendrapada, September 5 (odisha.in) Years after year, they make hundreds of clay status of deity Ganesh, Saraswati and several others in Orissa’s Kendrapada district, but prosperity , education and good fortune, that is attributed to god always elude them. As thousands of devotees prepare to conduct “Ganesh Puja” on 15th, September, the artisans at Kumbharsahii […]
Insects ruin paddy crops in Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur
Kendrapada, September 2 (Odisha.in) Insects have ruined paddy crops of thousands of farmers in both Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur districts. “Help from the administration, however, is yet to reach the villagers, more than three weeks after the first swarm of insects arrived here. The insects are black in colour and measuring less than an inch in […]