Serious brainstorming at the national level is fast becoming a necessity to deal with this phenomenon of abductions by the Maoists. The home ministry's hands-off approach is certainly not what......
The Centre is keenly observing the hostage situation in Odisha and is believed to be against any swap of prisoners with an abducted member of Legislative Assembly and an Italian tour guide. The......
The five-day old Italian hostage crisis deepened on Monday with the Maoists failing to respond to the Odisha's government's offer for negotiations and insisting on acceptance of their 13-point......
Two Italian tourists have been abducted by Maoists from the tribal-dominated Kandhamal-Ganjam border area in Odisha, said the police on Sunday, which is monitoring the situation closely. "There is......
Maoists disrupted several communication links in Orissa on Monday by torching government buses and triggering landmine blasts to destroy mobile towers, besides damaging a forest beat house, prior......
Over 8,000 candidates, mostly tribals from south Orissa's Koraput, Nabarangapur and Malkanagiri districts have received job offers from various private companies, mostly from outside the state, in......
Faced with problems of acquiring land for various projects in the state, the Orissa government has decided to create exclusive land banks for industrial purpose. "I have asked the district......
With the Maoists training their guns on the telecom towers in the Naxal hit districts of south Orissa like Koraput, Malkanagiri, Rayagada and Nabarangapur, the plans of cellular operators to expand......