Odds favour Kharge over Tharoor and Tripathi in Congress polls

The stage was set on Friday for a contest between Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor for the Congress president's post, with the Dalit leader from Karnataka emerging as the clear favourite. The......

Collector kidnap: Mediators leave to meet Maoists

Intensifying efforts for the release of the abducted Malkangiri Collector R V Krishna, two Maoist-chosen mediators on Thursday left for Koraput for talks with the rebels even as the Orissa......

Orissa kidnap: 12 Maoists get bail, talks progress

Twelve Maoists including hardcore rebel leader Sriramalu Srinivasalu were on Tuesday released on bail as talks for safe return of abducted Malkangiri district collector and an engineer appeared to......

Talks to free Collector on; anti-Naxal ops stopped

Orissa government has said that there would be no combing operations against Naxals till conclusion of negotiations with the mediators for release of abducted IAS officer and a junior engineer who......