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

A Maoist was on Friday killed in an exchange of fire with security force in Orissa's Koraput district, the police said here.

Armed Maoists set afire at least 14 vehicles used for road construction work by a private construction company and a mobile phone tower in Orissa's Gajapati district, police said on Tuesday.

Maoists blew up a culvert on a road in Orissa's Koraput district to obstruct movement of security personnel, police sources said on Monday.

India on Monday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile, from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast.