Senior Maharashtra politician Sharad Pawar has stepped down as president of the Nationalist Congress Party.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking a stay on release of the movie "The Kerala Story" on grounds that its a "worst kind of hate speech" and an "audio-visual propaganda".

AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha have been mentioned by the Enforcement Directorate in a chargesheet in the liquor policy case. The MPs' names are included in a supplementary charge sheet by the probe agency, but not as accused.

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi died at 89 age  at Kolhapur in Maharashtra on Tuesday after brief illness, family sources said.

A rare black (pseudo-melanistic) tiger has been found dead in the Similipal National Park (STR) in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, park officials said today indicating that the death was suspected due to infighting.

India has logged 3,325 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have dipped to 44,175 from 47,246, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

About 4.7 million WhatsApp accounts were banned in the month of March and 1.7 million of those accounts were proactively banned before any reports from users' side, the instant messaging platform said in its monthly report.

The Gujarat High Court on Monday allowed medical termination of a 26-week pregnancy of a 23-year-old woman, a rape survivor with "sub-normal intelligence" and 70 per cent permanent physical disability.

According to the latest National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) grading, Utkal University in Odisha has dropped from A+ to A.

Noted journalist Basudev Mahapatra passed away in Bhubaneswar. He is survived by his wife Sujata, who works as a senior reporter with an Odia news channel, and their son. Mahapatra was sick for the last few days.

The Orissa High Court has restricted the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) to allot multiple plots to individuals in the city under its schemes. The directive of the court came while a single bench of Justice Biswanath Rath was hearing a petition related to allotment of multiple plots by the BDA under discretionary quota.

: An apartment named ‘Raj Vatika’ was built on forest land at Patharagadia locality on the outskirts of State Capital about eight years ago and it thrives even today.

Sambalpur Collector Ananya Das and Balangir Collector Chanchal Rana tied the nuptial knot at a hotel in Guwahati on Monday.

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Peedika Rajanna Dora once again visited Kotia group of villages under Pottangi block of Odisha’s Koraput district amid the ongoing territorial dispute between the two states.

Odisha has recorded the highest ever gross GST collection of all time to the tune of Rs 5,035.74 crore during April 2023.