Debabrata Mohanty
Orissa Criminal Investigation Dept probing rape of a 29-year-old Catholic nun in Kandhamal appealed to the victim to contact the police to help identi
Forty-three days after Laxmanananda Saraswati, his three followers and another person were gunned down...
“I was shattered when I read about it in newspapers. The details were horrifying,” said the younger brother of the nun...
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was asked about the attacks on Christians in Orissa and Karnataka during his trip to the US and France...
A full 38 days after a Catholic nun was brutally assaulted and then, by her own admission, “paraded naked...
The fire of communal and ethnic violence continued unabated in Orissa fire as it spread to Boudh district...
More than a month after the nun with Father Thomas was allegedly raped and assaulted in K Nuagaon, police are yet to study her medical examination rep
At least one person died and several others were injured in fresh violence in Kandhamal...
Seeking political gains out of the current flood situation in Orissa, the Congress on Sunday alleged that the disaster...
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday flew down to violence-scarred Kandhamal district and offered to verify dubious caste certificates...
His hut reduced to a heap of mud and straw by the overflowing Chitroptala river, when Nilamani Samal...
After three warnings from the Union Home Ministry over its failure in containing violence in Kandhamal for over a month...
Union Home Ministry asked the state Govt to ensure that prevailing situation of lawlessness is effectively brought under control.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday asked for 10 more companies of CRPF from the Centre as over 100 houses...
Kandhamal continued to simmer with one more death being reported even as BJP leader LK Advani on Wednesday called for a national debate on religious c
“My husband Freedom Nayak had gone to a church 30 km away on August 23. He never returned.
Despite being the first state to have a dedicated disaster mitigation authority, Orissa’s lack of preparedness to deal with the devastating floods...
One month after masked gunmen shattered the peace in Kandhamal district killing Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his associates at Jalespeta a
With an eye on the coming polls, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Tuesday promised all possible help to the 37.5 lakh flood-ravaged people of Oris
The ramshackle wooden gate that used to swing open for visitors to the ashram no longer stands wide open.
Violence erupted in Kandhamal district again when hundreds of women pelted stones on the Raikia police station.
The flood situation in Orissa may not improve anytime soon as another depression is being formed over the Bay of Bengal...
First he lost his meagre belongings to a marauding mob that set fire to his house at Pirigada village after the riots...
A few litres of kerosene, some pickaxes and crowbars and inflamed passions. That was all it took to tear apart the lives of people in 62 villages of T
Violence continued in Kandhamal as a Dalit Christian was reportedly abducted and hacked to death by some tribals in his village...