Train services on Koraput-Rayagada section of East Coast Railway (ECoR) in Odisha were hit on Saturday by a dharna demanding immediate release of BJD MLA Jhinna Hikaka who was abducted by Maoists in K

Gunning down of a police official by Maoists in Malkangiri district has cast a shadow over talks to end the nine-day-old Italian hostage crisis with a senior official saying the killing has put a q

Talks to secure the safe release of two Italians taken hostage by Maoists since over a week in Odisha's Kandhamal district resumed here on Friday amid a demand by the interlocutors that a top jailed M

Talks between Maoist mediators and those of the Odisha government are expected to start soon to resolve the Italian hostage crisis, according to Dandapani Mohanty, one of the two negotiators chosen

The Maoists on Wednesday offered to release one of the two Italians held captive by them if two of their demands, including release of some rebels, were met, as the Orissa government asked its medi

Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday rejected Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik claims that the Centre had not offered any help to the state in dealing with the abduction of two Italians by

The hostage crisis in Odisha deepened on Tuesday, six days after two Italian nationals were abducted by Maoists, with one of the three interlocutors saying he did not want to mediate on behalf of the

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the abduction of two Italian nationals in Odisha is a 'reminder of the challenge' to internal security posed by leftwing extremism.

"The abduction of two

Authorities in Odisha Monday intensified efforts for the release of two Italian national, abducted by Maoist guerrillas five days ago, an official said.

State Home Secretary U.N. Behera said the gove

Maoists, who took hostage two Italians in Kandhamal district, were yet to respond on Monday to the Odisha government's offer of negotiations even as the deadline set by the ultras was presumed to h