Railways proposes to complete over 550 kms of new lines in eight sections, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announced on Friday.
Heavily armed Maoists on Thursday attacked a police station and a forest office setting them on fire and abducted a policeman in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
Around 60 tribals, a large number of them women, conducted an elaborate puja at the spot near Ambagadia village where the blockade had been continuing for 431 days at midnight.
Agitating under the banner of the Bisthapan Virodhi Jana Manch, the tribals have set up road blockades at about 15 places.
The clash on Monday between villagers opposing a steel project and the police had also left 17 others injured. \n
The tribals were opposing the construction of a boundary wall of a company.
Folk artist from Chhattisgarh Teejan Bai, Guelleh, Naik and theatre actor from Maharashtra Balwant Moreshwar Purandare will be honoured with Padma Vibushan.
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