The Centre Friday named Siddhartha Mohanty as the first chief executive of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the country's biggest insurer.

Russia fires more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine early Friday, killing at least 22 people.

Delhi Police Friday registered two FIRs in connection with sexual harassment allegations levelled by women wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned Friday over a report into whether he failed to properly disclose his involvement in the facilitation of a loan to former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

In view of sharp rise in Caesarean Section deliveries between National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 of 2015-16 and 2019-21, the state government has expanded the audit of such delivery cases to all private hospitals too that would come into effect from May 1. Earlier, the audit was being done in government hospitals.

The Odisha government has informed the Supreme Court that it will appoint a full-time chief administrator for Srimandir at the earliest, an official said Friday.

Odisha has witnessed a significant boost in the field of farm mechanisation with the sale of machinery reaching over Rs 805 crore during 2022- 23. The state has set a target for Rs 1000 crore sales in 2023-24, said Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment Principal Secretary Arabinda Padhee, Friday.

The Commissionerate Police has arrested a man for allegedly duping a woman of Ranihat area here of around Rs 62 lakh by claiming himself a sorcerer, Friday. Mangalabag police have arrested Sheikh Ashfaq and seized as many as 70 mobile phones, Rs 2.76 lakh in cash, two cars, and a motorcycle from his possession, said deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Pinak Mishra.

To celebrate India’s G20 Presidency, AIIMS Bhubaneswar students Friday formed a large Human Chain depicting G20. To mark the theme of One Earth, One Family, One Family, only girl students of AIIMS Bhubaneswar formed G20 inside the premises of the national institute.

India Friday brought home 754 people under its mission to evacuate stranded Indians from strife-torn Sudan. While 392 people arrived in New Delhi in a C-17 heavy-lift aircraft of the Indian Air Force, another batch of 362 Indians were brought to Bengaluru.

More than 120 eminent citizens, including retired high court judges and former bureaucrats, have written to President Droupadi Murmu opposing what they called "highly objectionable attempts" to legalise same-sex marriages.

The hospitality sector in India saw a 60 per cent rise in job postings from March 2022 to March 2023, with DelhiNCR emerging as the top city for such jobs, a report showed Friday.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Friday launched the state's first air ambulance service from Ranchi to other parts of the country. Soren flagged-off the service for which an aircraft of the Redbird Airways has been taken on lease, an official of the state civil aviation department said.

 Online food delivery platform Swiggy has started charging all users a “platform fee” of `2 per food order, irrespective of the cart value.

A resurgent Gujarat Titans, boasting a powerpacked bowling unit, will come in the way of Kolkata Knight Riders’ revival hopes when the two teams cross swords in the IPL here Saturday.