The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) retained the Jharsuguda Assembly constituency seat after its candidate Dipali Das trounced the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Tankadhar Tripathy by a huge margin of 48,619 votes.

The election saw a voter turnout of 65.69% with a total of 3,49,88,756 voters casting their votes. The state has a total of 224 constituencies, and the party that manages to secure a simple majority of 112 seats will be declared the winner. Till 12.30PM the congress leading in 125 seats.

The Calcutta High Court has ordered the cancellation of appointment of around 36,000 candidates who were untrained at the time of their recruitment as primary teachers in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided schools, as the due procedure was not followed in the appointment process.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the promotion of 40 judicial officers who had been made district judges by Gujarat High Court and the state government, saying the elevations were “illegal and contrary to relevant rules”.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared Friday the Class X and XII examination results. In the Class X examinations, Bhubaneswar with a pass percentage of 93.94 was placed eighth among all the regions while in the Class XII segment it was 11th with a pass percentage of 83.39.

Ahead of Assembly and Lok Sabha polls, Speaker Bikram Keshari Arukh along with two state ministers, Samir Ranjan Dash and Srikanta Sahu resigned from their positions Friday. The sudden resignation of the Speaker and two ministers,at a time when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is away in New Delhi and Governor Ganeshi Lal is out of station, shocked the entire political fraternity.

In a bid to promote indigenous products and create additional income opportunities for marginalised sections, outlets have been allotted at 31 railway stations in Odisha under the ‘One Station One Product’ (OSOP) scheme, the Ministry of Railways said Friday. OSOP outlets have been allotted at stations including Bhubaneswar, Puri, Cuttack, Sambalpur, Angul, Bolangir, Balasore, Dhenkanal, Rourkela, Rayagada, Khurda Road, Jharsuguda, Hirakud and Bargarh Road.

Southern Asia accounts for nearly two-thirds of the world's small for gestational age (SGA) newborns - babies born too small, according to a paper published in the Lancet.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Koraput district Collector on the issue of migrant workers who had to walk from Bangalore to Koraput after being refused their wages.

Over 2,500 mobile toilets will be set up for the Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir, with most on the two routes to reach the cave shrine located at a height of 3,880 metres in the Himalayas, officials said.

Girls continued to outshine boys in CBSE Class 10 and 12 exams while the pass percentage and the number of students scoring above 90 and 95 per cent marks dipped compared to last year.

The CBI has filed an FIR against former Narcotics Control Bureau officer Sameer Wankhede for allegedly seeking Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case, officials said Friday.

The Allahabad High Court Friday ordered determination of the age of the structure claimed to be a shivling in the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi using modern technology.

Geological Survey of India (GSI) plans to launch an early warning system for possible landslides across the nation in 2026, an official of the organisation said.

The Bihar government has earned all-time high revenue of Rs 1384.46 crore from sand mining during 2022-23, an increase of nearly 54 per cent compared to the previous fiscal, a top official said.

The World Health Organization declared that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency Thursday, almost exactly a year after the disease formerly known as monkeypox started spreading globally.

Domestic passenger vehicle despatches witnessed a 13 per cent year-on-year rise in April as demand remained robust across segments, industry body SIAM said Friday.

Lucknow Super Giants will be itching to get back to winning ways against a buoyant Sunrisers Hyderabad with young wrist-spinner Ravi Bishnoi holding the key in a must-win IPL game here, Saturday.

The Assam government launched a healthcare scheme, offering cashless medical treatment up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year.

The state government employees possessing Sikkim Subject Certificate/Certificate of Identification shall get one advanced increment for having two surviving children, the Department of Personnel Secretary Rinzing Chewang Bhutia said in a notification issued on May 10.