Police use pigeons to send messages in Odisha
Odisha Police used pigeons to send messages from Bhubaneswar to Cuttack during a ceremony on Saturday. The police said Odisha is the only Indian state that uses pigeons to communicate between police stations. The Odisha Pigeon Service started in 1946 when the army gave policemen 200 pigeons to communicate in areas with no wireless or telephone links, the police added. 