Bhubaneswar: Culture minister Ashok Chandra Panda inaugurated an exhibition of photographs, sketches and newspaper reports on the great Orissa famine of 1866 on the premises of Odisha State Archives ...

150 years after catastrophic famine wiped out a third of the population of coastal Odisha during 1865-66, the calamity has for the first time been documented by the State Government.

Sahadeva Sahoo, a former Odisha chief secretary, is one such alumnus. He attributes Ravenshaw's failure during the famine to infrastructural and logistical issues.

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Archives will publish a book compiling archival records on the devastating Orissa Famine of 1865-66. At least a million people, about a third of the population then ...

Bhubaneswar: ‘Na’Anka Durbhikshya’ or the Odisha Famine of 1866 killed over a million people in eastern India. However, not much is known about this famine and it also finds no mention in ...

Bhubaneswar: Odia Swabhiman Pradarshani, an exhibition of pictures depicting the glory of Odisha, was inaugurated by Gobardhan Panika at Baramunda Ground here. The two-day exhibition has on display ...

A brainstorming session organised by the 11th edition of "Odisha Manaska- All Things Odisha" dwelt on Odia people’s resolute fight with monsoon-related catastrophes, the resilience on their part to ...

The 1886 famine in Orissa state killed over a million people and galvanised Indians into fighting against British colonial rule, writes historian Dinyar Patel. BBC Homepage.

The Odisha famine of 1866 was one of the most decisive events in the economic history of the riparian state. It is estimated that 8% of the total population of 1.18 crore population died within ...

Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan took to social media platform X to share pictures of the fascinating 'pseudo-melanistic' tigers found in Odisha's Similipal. The pictures have ...

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Archives will publish a book compiling archival records on the devastating Orissa Famine of 1865-66. At least a million people, about a third of the population then ...