After recent high-intensity operations in the Bastar region and the neutralisation of several senior Maoist leaders, officials say the insurgency has lost its ability to mount large-scale coordinated attacks.
210 deaths were directly attributed to commuters falling from overcrowded trains.
Asserting that the situation was deteriorating, Rosario urged Yunus to resolve the crisis by giving it top priority and putting an end to the violence.
"It will give a message to the society and the entire nation that transgenders can also marry," said a relative of the groom.
Moon Moon Sen, the Trinamool Congress candidate, contesting from Bankura in West Bengal pulled off a major upset when she went defeated the formidable nine-time member of Parliament Basudev Acharia from the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Sen, the actress and daughter of Suchitra Sen, triumphed by 97,511 votes over Acharia. She speaks to Subhash K Jha on her victory and her plans for the future.
Appearing before Justice Basudev Panigrahi Commission of Enquiry, two top officials of the state government on Wednesday said that 2007 communal riot in Odisha's Kandhamal district was 'pre-planned.'
First to back P A Sangma, a tribal and minority leader for the Presidential contest, the ruling Biju Janata Dal in Odisha on Thursday hoped for a miracle in his favour as polling for the top post ended at the state assembly.
Work at the proposed Posco site in Jagatsinghpur district was stalled for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as locals staged a road blockade at a key junction demanding that their demands be fulfilled including enhanced compensation to land losers.
Seventeen others were arrested for opposing the land acquisition process.
Despite heavy security arrangements, no witness turned up on Wednesday to depose before Justice Basudev Panigrahi Commission probing the 2007 communal riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district.
A former Bihar minister's son was shot dead in Bihar's Katihar district triggering protests with locals disrupting movement of trains on the Patna-Guwahati route as the sub-divisional town of Barari observed a spontaneous bandh. Anil Kumar Singh, son of former minister late Basudev Prasad Singh, was shot dead by unidentified assailants at Barari market on Sunday night, police said on Monday.
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, nearly cried in the Lok Sabha, when Left party leaders Basudev Acharya and Gurudas Das Gupta attacked him by quoting rules for not allowing them to speak after he had rejected the no confidence motion against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The motion was moved by the Left parties after Dr Singh refused to report to the House.
The five constables of the Kolkata police murdered traffic sergeant Bapi Sen on December 31, 2002 after he tried to prevent them from molesting a woman.
Dubai-based don Aftab Ansari, the main accused, was convicted for murder, conspiracy and waging war against the country.
CPI (M) veteran Jyoti Basu had on Sunday said that formation of the seventh Left Front government in the state would be a fitting a tribute to Biswas.
'If the Congress is to challenge the NDA government, Rahul Gandhi will have to shed his indifference to Parliament, become more visible and vocal and, essentially, lead from the front,' says Rediff.com contributor Anita Katyal.
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