Maoists on Monday named three negotiators to talk to the Odisha government on the Italian hostage crisis even as they set a fresh 24-hour deadline for acceptance of 13 demands including withdrawal of

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

Maoists on Sunday claimed to have abducted two Italian tourists in Odisha. Police are verifying if the incident is true.

The Maoists, in an audio message in the wee hours of Sunday, said the tourists

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday appealed to the Maoists to release the two abducted Italian tourists in Ganjam district bordering Kandhamal and said that the government was open to ‘any

Renowned national woman footballer Jhilli Munda, who has represented India at international and national events in several tournaments, is bearing the brunt of acute poverty and she is forced to roll

The opposition Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha on Monday rejected the police charge sheet on the alleged gang rape of a woman in the state and demanded a CBI probe to unearth the t

Judicial probe into the recent hooch tragedy that struck several villages in Cuttack and Khurda districts of Odisha has begun even as the death toll due to it mounted to 35, official sources said on S

Three Maoists were arrested and several rebel literature and posters seized from them at a railway station here, police said on Saturday.

Siku Nachika, Chakara Tadangi and Bijay Tandangi of Naryanpa

The CBI has placed before the Supreme Court its report on the investigation into alleged corruption in utilisation of Central funds by six districts of Odisha for the rural job guarantee scheme und