Arka Keshari Deo, son of former Kalahandi MP BK Deo joins BJD

Odishas Kalahandi district once the cause of global embarrassment for India due to its high number of starvation deaths today stands tall with a five-fold increase in its rice production since 1999, figures reveal. Chetan Chauhan reports.

Coming to the rescue of KBK (Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput) region students, the Ravenshaw University has decided to open an examination centre at Bhawanipatna. Every year, thousands of KBK students, aspiring for a seat in the university, had to travel ...

The Union Ministry of Agriculture has launched a pilot project to set up nutrition farms in Kalahandi district. The project is aimed at promoting cultivation of crops rich in critical micro nutrients to improve the nutrition level in food in those ...

After scaling the Mount Everest, Jogabyasa Bhoi, a primary reacher from Kalahandi in Orissa, has succesfully conquered the highest mountain peak in Europe -- Mount Elbruse --, spreading the message of womens empowerment in the process.

With the Congress high command appointing Kalahandi MP Bhakta Charan Das as an AICC spokesperson, speculation about him being a frontrunner to replace Niranjan Patnaik as Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president has come to rest. Das was ...

Kalahandi district administration targets to cover 3,83,721 hectares this kharif season. Of this, paddy will be cultivated in 1,90,000 hectares (ha) with a target to harvest 40 quintals per ha. Irrigation water will be provided to 1,52,000 ha ...

Two members of a family died under mysterious circumstances while another was found in a critical condition in Kalahandi's Kesinga village on Sunday morning. Police are still groping in dark as to whether they committed suicide by consuming poison ...

THE Dongria Khonds of Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district of Odisha have been in a protracted struggle against the Vedantas proposal to set up an alumina refinery and to mine bauxite from the Niyamgiri Hills. On April 18, 2013, their struggle ...

BL reported that Gheraos and protests seeking closure of plants are quite common but Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district of Odisha is seeing an agitation of a different kind. More than a thousand people gathered at the main gate of Vedanta's Alumina ...