The Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is now giving special emphasis on expanding its scope of business in rural India, company sources said on friday.

Orissa's State Human Rights Commission has served a notice to the superintendent of police in Rourkela to investigate and report the reason for alleged "third degree assault" to a man at a police station.

Suspected Maoists blew up a road culvert close to the railway tracks in the Bisra area of Orissa’s Sundergarh district on Wednesday, briefly disrupting train services on the Mumbai-Howrah route.