Noted historian Ranajit Guha has died due to old age-related ailments, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday. Guha, who was 100 years old, died at his residence in Austria on Friday. He left behind his wife Mechthild.

The state government is realising its resolution of 'Nirogi Rajasthan', Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Saturday, referring to the Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme and the Right to Health Act.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Saturday said it has searched the Bangalore office and residential premises of Edtech major BYJU'S and its CEO and co-founder Raveendran Byju and seized “incriminating” documents and digital data as part of a foreign exchange violation probe.

Priyanka Sar of KIIT International School (KIIT-IS) has made her alma mater proud by becoming the Odisha topper in the JEE Main exams, the results of which were declared Saturday. Priyanka scored 99.98 per cent. Besides Priyanka, 17 other students from the school have cleared the exam with flying colours.

The state government has initiated the process to lease out six accommodation units under the Tourism department for development, augmentation, operation and maintenance through public-private partnership (PPP) mode. The Tourism department has invited tenders to lease out the Panthanivas Paradip, Panthanivas Keonjhar, Yatrinivas Satapada, Yatrinivas Konark (part), TRC Gopalpur and BN Palace Paralakhemundi.

The state government Saturday appointed IAS officer Ranjan Kumar Das as chief administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA). As per a notification issued by the General Administration and Public Grievances department, Das will take the charge from incumbent SJTA chief administrator VV Yadav.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Saturday said a low pressure area is likely to take shape over south Bay of Bengal (BoB) around May 5.

The total value of assets attached in the 2014 money laundering case linked with the Rose Valley Group has risen to more than `1,171 crore with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) saying it has seized properties worth `54 crore in the case.

The Odisha Protection of Interest of Depositors (OPID) court in Balasore Friday ordered attachment of `7 crore worth property of M/S Lakshya Level Marketing Pvt. Ltd, a chit fund company.

As many as 6,000 villagers who live in 38 forest and unsurveyed villages in Ganjam district will be benefited as their villages have been granted revenue status under the Forest Rights Act and Orissa Survey and Settlement Act.

A court here Saturday sentenced gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari to imprisonment for 10 years and four years, respectively in a 2007 Gangsters Act case.

For a change, the traditional political rivals in Kerala, the ruling CPI-M led Left and the Congress led Opposition, are up in arms against the controversial Hindi film ‘The Kerala Story’.

The offence for which Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was awarded the maximum sentence of two years in jail was not serious nor did it involve any "moral turpitude", his lawyer told the Gujarat High Court Saturday while seeking a stay to his conviction in the 2019 defamation case.

In a historic first, the Indian Army has inducted five women officers into its Regiment of Artillery and three of them have been posted to frontline formations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, military sources said Saturday. Lt Mehak Saini, Lt Sakshi Dubey, Lt Aditi Yadav, Lt Pious Mudgil and Lt Akanksha have joined the Army's premier artillery units after successfully completing their training at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai.

The U.S. confiscated Iranian oil on a tanker at sea in recent days in a sanctions enforcement operation, three sources said, and days later Iran seized another oil-laden tanker in retaliation, according to a maritime security firm.

 Facing allegations of sexual harassment by seven women wrestlers, WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh Saturday said he is ready for “any kind of investigation” but won’t resign from his post as it would mean he has accepted the charges against him.

India records 5,874 Covid cases in 24 hours, 18 per cent lower than yesterday.

Minister of State (MoS) for Education Subhas Sarkar on Saturday said there was "misleading propaganda" about the removal of Darwin's Theory from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) science textbook for Class 10.

Nine people have died and 11 are unwell after a gas leak incident at a factory in the Giaspura area of Ludhiana in Punjab, news agency ANI reported.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck Jammu and Kashmir early Sunday morning, National Center for Seismology said.