Winged messengers of Odisha police keep glorious past alive: Carrier pigeon service not redundant till now

BHUBANESWAR: The first Prime Minister, late Jawaharlal Nehru, was in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on April 13, 1948, about eight months after India achieved Independence.

<p><sup>Though the pigeon messenger service was discontinued in Odisha on March 31, 2008, trained homing pigeons are still being nurtured for ceremonial and symbolic purposes in Odisha, perhaps the only place in India. </sup></p>