Heatwave conditions continued to prevail across Odisha with mercury breaching the 40°C mark at 16 places Thursday. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Boudh and Jharsuguda were the hottest places in the state and recorded the day’s maximum temperature of 43.4°C. The searing heat may continue for another fourfive days, IMD said.

A `1 crore defamation case and a petition seeking an injunction to restrain his autobiography has been filed against Rajya Sabha MP and former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi by Assam Public Works (APW) president Aabhijeet Sharma at a local court here.

In a major relief for Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Supreme Court declared Thursday the former prime minister’s arrest ‘illegal’ and ordered his immediate release after he was produced before a bench on its orders.

Former director of National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Sudhakar Panda will receive ‘Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence’, which carries a cash award of Rs 2 lakh along with a citation and memento.

Luna Samanta of Ravenshaw University, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar chief scientist Danda Srinivas Rao, NIT-Rourkela’s Anup Kumar Panda and National Botanical Research Institute of Lucknow’s director Saroj Kanta Barik will receive ‘Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award’. The award carries a cash award of Rs 1 lakh and a citation with memento.

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of state Crime Branch has frozen Rs 1.22 crore of fake trading application ‘Join Trade’, an official said Thursday.

More than half of all fraud incidents in India were ‘platform’ fraud, a novel form of economic crime that involves fraudulent activities associated with social media, e-commerce, enterprise and finTech platforms, said a PwC India report Thursday.

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal Thursday thanked the Supreme Court for doing justice to the people of the national capital and said that the pace of development will increase manifold.

 The Supreme Court Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking legal validation for same-sex marriage after a marathon hearing of 10 days.

 A central government agency has authorised 800 farmers and entrepreneurs to use the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for 13 agricultural products of the northeastern region, an official said.

The UN food agency is warning that a widespread locust infestation in several Afghan provinces is of ‘huge concern’ and could possibly decimate a quarter of the wheat crop.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar Thursday said that in the semiconductor space, the country will soon have a talent pool of 85,000 who will not only create innovative designs and solutions for the country but also for the world.

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has discovered crude oil and natural gas in two blocks in Mumbai offshore, the company said Thursday without giving details of reserves found. The discoveries, which have been named ‘Amrit’ and ‘Moonga’, were made in the blocks that the company won in recent open acreage licensing rounds.

A total of 833 persons have been arrested in 427 cases registered in the past two years under the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2020 that is now back in focus with the release of the movie 'The Kerala Story' that highlights the same issue.

 Four wagons of a goods train, loaded with cement, derailed near Katni station in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, officials said.

Air India's two pilot unions on Thursday decided to accept the revised service norms and new compensation structure offered by the airline.

The BBC and Wikimedia Foundation Thursday submitted in a Delhi court that it does not have jurisdiction to try a criminal complaint filed by a BJP leader seeking to restrain them from publishing a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots.

With the Supreme Court ruling in his government's favour on administration of some services in Delhi on Thursday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pledged the speed of work will increase 10 times now that his hands are no longer tied.

The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking legal validation for same-sex marriage.

Cyclone Mocha is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm today over the southeast and adjoining areas of central Bay of Bengal, officials have said.