A Mauritian civil servant, Mr Ramroop Jugurnauth (51), arrived on Sunday arrived at his ancestral Mulagaon village under Jajpur district in Orissa after making years of search of his roots.

The Union government has decided to deallocate Utkal-D coal block allotted to the state-controlled public sector unit Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) for delaying production, even as the Orissa govern

Social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday said he will campaign only for the candidates of Aam Admi Party launched recently by his ex-colleague Arvind Kejriwal.

For them, the coming of winter marks the season of celebration. They consider it a period of pleasure like spring and merry-making. The Santh-als, a primitive tribal community living in the mineral-rich Sukinda valley under the Jajpur district in Odisha, commemorate arr-ival of the winter in a different fashion.

BJD Lok Sabha member from Kendrapara Baijyant Jay Panda has planned to introduce a Private Members’ Bill in the ongoing session of Parliament seeking plain packaging of tobacco products in India.

Sabyasachi Panda alias Suneel, the most-wanted Maoist leader of Orissa, on Sunday released an audio tape dismissing the state police claim that it had eliminated most of his hardcore cadres during the November 14 morning encounter with the rebels on the borders of Ganjam and Gajapati district.

Battling to hold on to its fort in the face of heavy offensives launched by the rebel leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra, the ruling BJD in Orissa has called an emergency meeting of the party on Friday appar

For all political parties in Orissa, it’s time to launch “Mission KBK” to sail through the 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.

At least five Maoist cadres were on Wednesday killed in an encounter with the Orissa police at Bhaliaguda under Gobindpur gram panchayat in Gajpati district, 350 km from here.

A day after the Union minister Srikant Jena accused Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik of colluding in a mining scam that supposedly caused a loss of `4 lakh crores to the state exchequer, the state government on Tuesday said it was not showing any leniency to the mines operators who had raised minerals in excess of the permitted limits.