India, Dec. 26 -- Security forces shot dead a top Maoist leader who oversaw insurgent operations in Odisha, along with five other rebels, in separate encounters in two neighbouring districts of the st... Read More
India, Dec. 25 -- A migrant labourer from West Bengal was beaten to death by a group of unidentified assailants who accused him of being an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant in Sambalpur district on Wedne... Read More
India, Dec. 25 -- Two Maoists carrying a combined reward of Rs.23.65 lakh were killed in an encounter with Special Operations Group of Odisha police in Gumma Forest under Belghar police station of Kan... Read More
India, Dec. 25 -- Ganesh Uike, a Maoist central committee member who was in charge of Maoist operations in Odisha, was killed in an overnight gunfight with a joint team of security forces in the state... Read More
India, Dec. 24 -- A 10-year-old girl who left home to go to school was raped and murdered in Odisha's Bhadrak on December 24, leading angry villagers in the district's Chandbali area to stage a 17-hou... Read More
India, Dec. 24 -- Anu Garg, a 1991-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was on Wednesday appointed Odisha's chief secretary, the first woman to hold the state's top bureaucratic post. G... Read More
India, Dec. 23 -- Twenty-two Maoists including a divisional committee member surrendered before Odisha Police at an event in Malkangiri in the presence of the director general of police YB Khurania on... Read More
India, Dec. 22 -- Three members of a family, including a woman and her two sons, were found dead in their home at Itap village in Odisha's Dhenkanal district on Monday in a suspected case of food pois... Read More
India, Dec. 19 -- Biju Janata Dal (BJD) lawmakers on Friday asked chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi to reconsider the controversial 211% hike in MLAs' salaries and allowances cleared by the assembly e... Read More
Bhubaneswar, Dec. 19 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators of Odisha on Thursday requested chief minister Mohan Majhi to reconsider the controversial 211% hike in MLAs' salaries and allowances, ... Read More