Two goods trains derailed in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district, leading to the cancellation and diversion of several express and passenger trains.
Work at the proposed site for Posco's controversial Rs 52,000-crore (Rs 520 billion) steel project in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district resumed on Tuesday after remaining stalled since June 26.
Work at the proposed Posco steel project site in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district was suspended for the third consecutive day on Monday due to protests by villagers over felling of trees.
Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has re-erected barricades to block the entry into the site
Maoist leader Samir Khalko, who was involved in the killing of a sub-inspector and bombing railway stations in Orissa, was on Tuesday gunned down by security forces during an encounter in Mundatola forest.
Twelve churches and prayer houses were ransacked and torched by suspected saffron activists in several areas of Kandhamal district in Orissa in the early hours of Thursday.
The nun, missing since the incident and had reportedly taken shelter at a church in Delhi, was not found when Additional Resident Commissioner M Satyanarayan went there last night, Home Secretary T K Mishra told PTI.
Serial blasts rocked relief camps in the riot-hit Kandhamal district triggering panic among the inmates living in those shelters since violence erupted in the area, but no casualty was reported. The bombs, suspected to be hand-made ones of low intensity, went off in Nuagaon, Mahasinghi village and Baliguda town at 7 pm, 8 pm and 9 pm respectively on Sunday night, the police said on Monday.
The nun, who was allegedly raped during communal violence in Kandhamal, has told the Crime Branch of Orissa police that after the sexual assault, she was saved by a local Hindu man from being gangraped, police said today.
The system moved north-northeastwards at 20 kmph in the last six hours and is over west-central Bay of Bengal, 90 km from Gopalpur, 120 km from Puri and 210 km from Paradip, the weather office said in its 11.30 am bulletin.
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The 2,500-hectares lease included both notified and non-notified areas.
Is it inconsistency in policy, or the lack of robust support?
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