The Government of Odisha has attracted Rs 20.1 lakh crore worth of investments in FY 2023 securing second rank in the country in attracting investments.

The IMD has predicted rain or thunderstorm in several districts of Odisha on May 18 (Thursday).Light to moderate rain or thunderstorm is very likely to occur at a few places over the districts of Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Gajapati, Ganjam, Koraput, Rayagada and Keonjhar and at one or two places over the districts of coastal Odisha, Kandhamal, Malkangiri, Dhenkanal, Angul and Deogarh on May 18, said the IMD regional centre .

A team of Odisha Vigilance sleuths arrested the Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) in Bandhugaon of Koraput district Namitarani Pal and Senior Revenue Assistant (SRA) working in Office of the CDPO Aswini Kumar Pradhan while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 40,000,

Karnataka Congress Chief, DK Shivakumar, has accepted the party's proposal to be the Deputy Chief Minister of the state following former party president Sonia Gandhi's intervention, sources claimed.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has sanctioned ₹ 20 crore for CCTV camera installation at strategic locations in border villages to maintain a strict vigil on the movement of drones and smugglers, a senior police official said.

The Supreme Court has reprimanded the petitioner in the Hindenburg case for mixing up an investigation by the capital markets regulator SEBI in 2016 and 2020 with the current case.

Former anti-narcotics officer Sameer Wankhede has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to its Mumbai office for questioning in connection with a corruption case.

The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to a man who has been in jail for 16 years observing that there was a delay in deciding his criminal appeal by Allahabad High Court.

Srichand Parmanand Hinduja, the eldest of the four Hinduja brothers and chairman of the Hinduja Group, passed away at 87 age in London on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed an order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) asking ITC to pay ₹ 2 crore to a model as compensation for a faulty haircut at a hotel owned by the conglomerate.

The threemember Mahanadi Water Dispute Tribunal will start Friday its survey of the Mahanadi river basin in Odisha. The survey will end May 28. During the survey the tribunal will conduct site inspection of the Mahanadi basin at Hirakud dam, May 20

In order to create more space at Swargadwar and facilitate beautification drive in Puri, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik ordered dismantling of the ‘samadhi’ of his father and former CM Biju Patnaik at the crematorium in the Holy City in 2019, CM’s private secretary VK Pandian said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat Express Thursday virtually, a South Eastern Railway official said.

As many as 550 students of ITI, Berhampur have received appointments at Johnson Lift & Escalators Pvt. Ltd at a two-day campus recruitment drive organised by the ITI which concluded Wednesday.

The CBI Wednesday conducted searches at the premises of Sunak Bali, who was an aide of Satya Pal Malik when he was the governor of Jammu and Kashmir, and 11 other locations in Delhi and Rajasthan in the alleged insurance scam case, officials said.

The Supreme Court Wednesday granted the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) time till August 14 to complete its probe into the allegations of stock price manipulation by the Adani group and asked the market regulator to place on record an updated status report of the probe.

 Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” for over two hours involving paparazzi in New York, a spokesperson for the prince said Wednesday.

The value of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) in Indian equities was at $542 billion in the March quarter of 2023, a decline of 11 per cent from the preceding year, largely due to the exodus of foreign money from the domestic market, according to a Morningstar report. In comparison, the value of FPI in Indian equities was $612 billion in the January-March quarter of 2022.

Beleaguered Delhi Capitals finally came out all guns blazing as they played party poopers to all but knock Punjab Kings out of playoff contention with a 15-run victory in the IPL here, Wednesday.

Liam Livingstone’s 94-run knock went in vain as Delhi Capitals edged out Punjab Kings by 15 runs in their IPL 2023 match in Dharamsala