President Droupadi Murmu has expressed grief over losing lives in the unfortunate rail accident in Balasore.

The Rural Development Ministry has said that about 88 per cent of the wage payment has been made through Aadhaar Based Payment Bridge System (ABPS) till May this year.

The triple train collision site in Odisha's Balasore at least 288 people have lost their lives and hundreds of people have been injured in the incident that took place on Friday.

The Odisha Health Department on Saturday said 1,175 patients have been admitted to private hospitals so far after the triple train crash in Balasore on Friday. Of these, 793 patients have been discharged while 382 patients continue to be in the hospital among which two are critical. 

West Bengal government has granted an ex-gratia compensation of Rs5 lakh each for the families of people from the state who died in the Odisha train accident, the CMO announced on Saturday. The state government has also declared Rs1 lakh for those who sustained injuries in the incident.

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has termed those reports as misleading and factually incorrect wherein it is claimed that Evolution and Periodic Table has been dropped from NCERT books.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Friday a ban on treatment for transgender minors, making his state the largest in the United States to place restrictions on youth access to such care.

In a world where so many countries do not let you talk about sex openly, Sweden is now turning it into a sport! While many countries, even many European ones, are slow to make big moves in recognizing sex as a recreational activity, Sweden, in true trendsetter style, has not held back.

Government has banned 14 fixed-dose drugs as they have been found to lack therapeutic justification and may pose risks to health.

Manipur, the peace committee consisting of different ministers and MLAs has been formed and teams have rushed to the violence affected areas to restore normalcy there.

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) announced many relaxations for the claim settlement process for the victims of the Odisha triple train crash. 

Maharashtra government has signed an MoU with Bajaj Finserv under which the non-banking finance company will invest Rs5,000 crore in Pune, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced on Saturday.

LPG coverage in India rose from 62% in 2016 to 105.4 % in 2023.

For the welfare of state’s farmers, the government is going to start one Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) Centre each in every district of Odisha, informed Agriculture & Farmers' Empowerment Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain here Saturday.

Nine Indian sailors of a merchant vessel who were held captive for several months by a local militia in Libya have been released, people familiar with the development said Saturday

The Supreme Court Saturday stayed an unusual order of the Allahabad High Court asking the head of the department of astrology of Lucknow University to decide whether a woman, an alleged rape victim, is 'manglik' or not.

Mizoram Deputy Chief Minister Tawnluia Friday claimed that 86 per cent of rural households in the northeastern state have been provided with tap water connections under the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission.

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will pay a two-day visit to India beginning Sunday to discuss ways to further expand the bilateral strategic engagement ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Washington.

. The G20 third Health Woking Group meeting will be held in Hyderabad from Sunday (4th June 2023).

President of war-torn Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, expressed condolences over the deadly train accident in Odisha.