The grievance cell of Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik has been defunct since 2008, leaving thousands of people in the state to suffer in silence, an anti-graft group said on Friday.

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has requested the French ambassador to India to get a copy of an old document on scientific survey of plants of Orissa available in a Paris museum, official sources said on Friday.

The Forest Rights Act, framed five years ago, has come to the aid of anti-POSCO agitators in Orissa in a big way and villagers in Jagatsingpur district where the plant is proposed to be built are well

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed a bill to change the name of Orissa to 'Odisha' and an amendment in the constitution to rename Oriya language as 'Odiya'. “The name of the state specified as Orissa in the first schedule of the Constitution be changed as Odisha,” home minister P. Chidambaram said while introducing the bill in the Rajya Sabha.

Malkangiri (Orissa): A case has been registered against several Maoist leaders in connection with the February 16 abduction of Malkangiri district collector R. V. Krishna and a junior engineer, police

Malkangiri (Orissa): A day after his release from Maoist captivity, Malkangiri Collector R Vineel Krishna on Friday said gun wielding men and women were keeping a watch on him round-the-clock but he w

Malkangiri (Orissa): A day after his release from Maoist captivity, Malkangiri Collector R Vineel Krishna on Friday said gun wielding men and women were keeping a watch on him round-the-clock but he w

New Delhi: The Centre was not not in favour of Orissa government striking a deal with Maoists for the release of its two officials in exchange for the freedom some top Maoists from its jails.

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Malkangiri: Orissa junior engineer Pabitra Mohan Majhi, who was freed by Maoists on Wednesday, said that Malkangiri District Collector R. Vineel Krishna was safe and the rebels will free him within 48

Bhubaneswar: Within hours of releasing an abducted junior engineer after days of negotiations with the Orissa government, Maoists on Wednesday made a fresh demand for the immediate release of five key