Manju Jeena, an ASHA from village Kandalei of Khurda district, Odisha, has been working tirelessly to support COVID-19 related activities and ensure that her community has access to essential and other health services. In her years of committed community service, Manju has built up significant social capital, enabling her to effectively negotiate in addressing COVID related stigma and resultant discriminati ...

- Chidananda Mohapatra Advocate The annual nine-day sojourn of Lord Jagannath commenced at the holy town of Puri with the trinity reaching Sri Gundicha temple where lord Biswakarma gave shape to Purna Brahma. The celebration of Rath Yatra amidst the novel corona virus pandemic is truly a historic moment for the devotees across the globe. arring the Islamic invasion, there was never an occasion in the thousa ...

Odisha. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS) has been providing both dry and cooked foods to patients at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here for the last one month as hotels and restaurants have remained closed due to Covid lockdown. The RSS, BMC has been providing foods every day through the Utkal Bipanna Sayatata Samiti. While over 375 persons are being served cooked food every day, ...

New Delhi. Chhayarani Sahu, a woman farmer in Odisha's Bhadrak district has distributed 15000kg of vegetables among the needy people of 20 villages. Her noble act has been widely recognised with former cricketer VVS Laxman, Union Minister Pratap Sarangi, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and many others applauding her efforts. Chhayarani Sahu lives with her husband Sarbeswara Sahu in Basudevpur in Kuruda in ...

Sambalpur. RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr. Mohan Bhagwat Ji has regretted that the dreams of freedom fighters who sacrificed their life for the nation had not been fulfilled yet. Paying his tributes on the anniversary programme of two sons of the soil, Subhash Chandra Bose and Veer Surendra Sai, the Sarsanghchalak bemoaned that even after seven decades of Independence we, as a nation, had failed to measure upto the ...

Odisha. The Shree Jagannath Sanskriti Suraksha Manch on Tuesday organized a mass chanting of Hanuman Chalisa at Hanuman temples and other religious institutions across the State in order to appease God for the delay in Brahma Parivartan rituals of Lord Jagannath and His siblings. In the State level chanting organised at the city-based Ram Mandir people from different ┬аwalks of life chanted the Chalisa for 1 ...

Visakhapatnam. The cyclone HUDHUD in Andhra Pradesh has created a massive storm of terror. In the districts of Vizianagaram, Srikakulam and Visakhapattanam everything has fallen apart. There are fallen trees on the roads, cracked roads, damaged vehicles, damaged power poles, damaged houses. Tourist destinations have been damaged due to the cyclone making it look like forests . Due to the cyclone from Oct- 1 ...