After the reported arrest of German girl rape convict Bittihotra Mohanty, alias Bitti, by the Kerala police from Kannur on Friday evening, his father and former Orissa director general of police (home guard) Bidya Bhusan Mohanty has disappeared from his residence at CDA Colony in Cuttack, nearly 30 km from here.

In a major breakthrough, security personnel belonging to the BSF and the special operation group of the Orissa police on Wednesday recovered a huge cache of explosives during an anti-naxalite operation in Koraput district, nearly 550 km from here. Acting on a tip-off, the security personnel raided certain places in Pinamali forest under Narayanpatna police station area from where explosives were recovered, they said.

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The arrest of Dandapani Mohanty, a known Maoist mediator and president of Orissa-based human rights forum Jana Adhikar Manch, has sparked off a major controversy with leading social activists dubbing

At least seven students, including three from Afghanistan, were injured in a group clash at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, during the annual cultural extravaganza on Saturday evening, the police said on Sunday.

Bowing down to pressure from various Opposition political parties and civil society organisations, the Orissa government on Wednesday put off the land acquisition process for the 12-million-tonne Posco India integrated steel project at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district.

People opposing the Posco India steel project near Paradip on Tuesday gheraoed the local Jagatsinghpur district collector and superintendent of police as they tried to continue the land acquisition work for the `52,000-crore project by using force.

Amidst political controversies, land acquisition for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel project resumed with tight security at Gobindpur village in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district.

Twelve platoons of armed police forces entered Gobindpur, part of the Posco steel project site near Paradip, early on Sunday morning and evicted people from dozens of betel gardens to acquire 700 acres of government land.

Even as the nation has just celebrated the 64th Republic Day and paid rich tributes to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to free India from the shackles of British rule, the old house of Sanada S