At least nine Maoists were gunned down in an encounter with the police in a hilly and forested area of Orissa's Naxal-hit Rayagada district on Sunday morning, said the police. The gunbattle took......
The first death anniversary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Laxmanananda Saraswati, whose killing triggered anti-Christian riots in Kandhamal district in Orissa was peaceful on Thursday. "There......
As the situation in strife-torn Kandhamal improved with intensified patrolling, the authorities on Friday lifted the day curfew clamped in nine police station limits, but decided to continue with......
Fourteen labourers who were abducted by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) activists from two camps in Rairakhol sub-division of Sambalpur district have been released, police said.The labourers......
Shoot at sight order was issued in many areas of Orissa's Kandhamal district on Wednesday as large number of people defied curfew at several places and indulged in arson, official sources said. "We......
About 200 leaders and activists of five political parties on Monday courted arrest here while trying to enter into Orissa Secretariat as part of their civil disobedience agitation against alleged......
Tribals on Friday took out separate rallies in Orissa's Kalinganagar area, both in support of the Tata Steel project and against it, to mark the third anniversary of killing of 14 tribals in police......
It could be Nandigram all over again. Tension gripped the three panchayats near Paradip in Orissaon Wednesdayas the state government sought to quell the villagers agitating against acquisition of......
South Korean steel giant Posco said on Wednesday that it had signed the memorandum of understanding with the Orissa government for a $12 billion Indian steel project.This investment by Posco, the......
On November 29, hundreds of armed villagers living in the Posco project area attacked anti-Posco protesters at Balitutha with bombs and burning down tents. More than 20 people were injured in the......