Three powerful tiffin bombs planted by suspected Maoists were detected by security personnel engaged in combing operations in Odisha's Naxal-hit Nuapada district.

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Goa, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand have demanded special category status from the central government for development, though in case of Goa, the demand has not been found feasible, Parliament

Chickungunya is feared to have resurfaced in Odisha's Ganjam district with several people in Boxipalli village showing symptoms of the mosquito-borne viral disease.

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Suspected Maoists on Friday killed a contractor engaged in the construction of a road in Odisha's Koraput district, police said.

Jamai Prasad, 40, was found dead on a road between Laxmipur and Naraya

Among the major states, Odisha recorded the steepest fall in poverty from 2004-05 to 2009-10, Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said on Thursday.

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Suspected Maoist guerrillas on Tuesday abducted a police officer from Odisha's Nuapada district, police said.

Assistant Sub Inspector Kruparam Majhi was kidnapped near Budhas village in Nuapada distr

In a shocking incident, a seven-month-old girl was killed allegedly by her mother who threw the baby into a well at Samalai, near Hinjilicut in Ganjam district, police said on Monday.

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The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the life sentence of CPI (Maoist) activist Narayan Sanyal, held guilty of committing sedition by a Chhattisgarh court in 2010, and granted bail to him.

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High courts cannot issue blanket bail orders for accused persons allegedly involved in heinous offences like murder, the Supreme Court has held.

A bench of Justices K. S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Mish

An outbreak of measles has killed four children and affected over 80 people - mostly young ones aged below five - in Odisha's Rayagada district in the past week, officials said on Monday.

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