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Malkangiri: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today ventured into the Maoist heartland making an impassioned appeal for peace and urging the rebels to eschew violence and join the national mainstream. Addressing a public meeting at...

Kendrapara: In a joint operation, the coast guard and forest personnel engaged in sea patrolling have taken 23 fishermen into custody on charge of carrying out illegal fishing voyage in the prohibited Gahirmatha marine sanctuary...

Law Minister Kapil Sibal today said government would abide by Supreme Court's decision commuting death penalty of convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.....

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today resigned from his post as well as the Congress protesting....

With the arrest of four robbers today, the police claimed to have busted an inter-district gang involved in looting trucks on highways......

Bhubaneswar: After two rallies by BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Odisha, the ruling BJD has planned three mega ones ahead of the coming elections. “The party has planned...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who is upset over the Telangana bill being passed by the Lok Sabha, is all set to resign today...

New Delhi: Amidst din, chaos and an unprecedented black out of televison coverage, the bill to carve out Telangana, the 29th state, by splitting Andhra Pradesh was today passed by the Lok Sabha with Congress...

Bhubaneswar: An Odisha minister today alleged that a section of officials of Posco and Jagatsinghpur district administration were responsible for the ongoing agitation by a group of people demanding a hike in the compensation paid...

Cuttack: As summer season approaches, the concern of parents having thalassemia patients mounts. ?Volunteers do not turn up to donate blood during summer and the Red Cross Blood bank finds it difficult to meet the...

London: The most primitive animals may have thrived in water that contained almost zero or little oxygen, a new study suggests, challenging a long held theory about the evolution of life on Earth. One of...

Colombo: The UN human rights chief has recommended an international probe into alleged war crimes during the last phase of in Sri Lanka’s civil war against the LTTE in 2009, a media report said today....

Hitting out at critics of UPA's management of economy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the government has "pulled back" the economy from a difficult situation and put it back on a high growth...

The Odisha government on Monday announced a Rs 12 crore package for protection, conservation and development of places of worship of tribal people, who constitute 22 per cent of the state's population

Revenue Minister Surya Narayan Patro faced protest in his constituency Digapahandi in Ganjam district on way to a function along with Health Minister Damodar Rout

Odisha's Ashutosh Padhy defeated Arjun Mehta of Karnataka to lift the sub-junior billiards title at the Manisha Billiards and Snooker Nationals, here on Monday

The government on Monday said public sector banks should raise capital on their own in future even as it proposed to infuse Rs 11,200 crore as equity in them during the next financial year

National Human Rights Commission has asked the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar police commissioner to file a status report within six weeks detailing the action it had taken over all the FIRs filed in connection with the police lathicharge...

The Odisha government on Monday announced a Rs 12 crore package for protection, conservation and development of places of worship of tribal people, who constitute 22 per cent of the state's population

A top Maoist leader carrying a reward of Rs 20 lakh on his head each in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh was on Saturday arrested in Koraput district. The 40-year-old Anil Kumar the second-in-command of the...