Amritpal Singh, a fugitive preacher who has been on the run since March 18, today surrendered before Punjab police in Moga. He has been arrested by the police.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Saturday said most parts of India including Odisha will have a sigh of relief for the next few days from the searing heatwave conditions that had rattled people this week.

US President Joe Biden is looking forward to travelling to India in September, his administration’s point person for South and Central Asia has said, observing that 2024 is going to be a “big year” for the India-US relationship.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday vacated his official bungalow at 12, Tughlaq Lane and said it was the price he paid for speaking the truth. Gandhi was earlier asked to vacate the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow by April 22.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has formed a committee to work along with the Central University of Odisha (CUO) to develop study materials in the mother tongue of Kui and Desiya speaking Kandha students from Koraput, Gajapati, Malkangiri, and Kandhamal districts of the state.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Chief Secretary to provide Rs 3 lakh as compensation to the next of kin of a 13-year-old tribal girl, who died owing to ‘negligence’ of her school authorities in Keonjhar late December 31, 2019 night.

Bureaucrat-turned-politician Bijay Patnaik, who recently joined Congress, has been appointed as chairman of the campaign committee of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC).

Reacting to the denial of tickets to state BJP bigwigs in poll-bound Karnataka, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at a media conclave here Saturday that the BJP believes in a continuous process of change.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi sterilised nearly 7,000 stray dogs in January and February and more dogs are being picked daily for sterilisation and then released back to the same area, officials said Saturday.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh sent a legal notice to the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday asking it to issue an apology or else face civil and criminal proceedings for allegedly making false and derogatory claims about him in the Delhi excise policy case.

ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Saturday successfully placed two Singapore satellites into the intended orbit, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

Finland’s registered 1.32 births per woman in 2022, the lowest level since record keeping started in 1776, according to official data. Statistics Finland said the figure in 2021 was 1.46, reports Xinhua news agency. In 2022, 44,951 children were born in Finland.

The US Supreme Court Friday temporarily preserved access to a widely used abortion pill, freezing rulings by lower courts that would have banned or severely restricted availability of the drug.

New Zealand’s last exports of livestock by sea have been completed and live exports have ceased, its agriculture minister said Friday, as it fully implemented a ban on export shipments of animals on the grounds of their welfare.

The full reopening of the economy last year, cyclical recovery in consumption, increased private sector capex, and acceleration on government spending will contribute for 6.2 per cent growth in India’s gross domestic product (GDP) in FY24, said Morgan Stanley in a report.

Assam police registered a case on Saturday based on the complaint filed by a former Congress leader against Indian Youth Congress President Srinivas BV.

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday said Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar was capable of becoming Maharashtra chief minister since he has vast administrative experience.

Amit Shah has said that former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has been called by the CBI "for third time" as part of the investigation in an alleged insurance scam and noted that there was no relation of the summons and his allegations.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday expressed hope that traders will soon be able to settle foreign trade in the rupee currency as several banks from different countries are opening special Vostro accounts with Indian banks.

Skipper KL Rahul (68, 61b, 8x4) managed to snatch defeat from jaws of victory with a baffling batting approach as defending champions Gujarat Titans beat Lucknow Super Giants by seven runs in a low-scoring IPL thriller, here Saturday.