The Orissa government was clueless on Thursday night about the whereabouts of Malkangiri collector R. Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Mohan Majhi, abducted by Maoists.

The Budget Session of the Orissa Legislative Assembly, as expected, on Monday began on acrimonious note with the major Opposition party Congress boycotting the governor’s speech protesting the Naveen

Aditya Bora, one of the leading Ulfa figures in Assam who was arrested by the Orissa police on Saturday, was on an `5 lakh contract to train Maoist cadres in Orissa and Jharkhand.

Success stories can be scripted even in the worst Maoist-hit region. Tribals, who are often lured away by different interest groups or worked as migrant labourers in distant lands under hazardous conditions, can also be successfully brought back to mainstream life. This is what Sahid Laxman Naik Development Society (SLNDS) of Malkangiri, and the National Bank of Rural Development (Nabard) have proved.

The BJP on Tuesday accused the ruling BJD in Orissa of serving “poison” to nearly 1.17 lakh schoolchildren in the form of supplying “adulterated” and “substandard” dal under the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) and Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP). The party announced that it would soon lodge a first information report (FIR) with

Buckling under pressure from Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress on the multi-crore dal supply scam under the mid-day meal scheme and Supplementary Nutritional Programme (SNP), Orissa women

Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), which is putting up a 6-million-tonne per annum mega aluminium refinery at Orissa Lanjigarh district, is working towards creating its own technical human resource base

Over eight lakh migratory birds, most of them from far-off foreign lands like Siberia, Ireland and Ukraine, have arrived at Orissa’s Chilika lake for their annual winter sojourn to Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon.

At least nine Maoists, including four women, were on Sunday gunned down in an encounter with the Orissa police in a hilly, forested area near Kashipur in Rayagada district, nearly 500 km from here.

The Naveen Patnaik government, which is now facing a serious image crisis following expose of largescale irregularities in mining lease and mineral trading and land allotment to private industrial houses, on Tuesday announced to provide bicycles to all girl students pursuing their studies in Class 10 in government and government-aided schools. Besides, it also declared to provide bicycles to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe boys of the same class in scheduled areas.