NCP chief Sharad Pawar Saturday declared Praful Patel and Supriya Sule working presidents of the party.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has abruptly resigned as a lawmaker, claiming he was the “victim of a witch-hunt”, .

The cyber police in Cuttack Saturday seized 300 pre-activated SIM cards and arrested eight persons of a well-oiled racket operating in the state.

Launching a scathing attack on the Centre, the Congress Saturday alleged that India’s debt has nearly tripled to Rs155 lakh crore in nine years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and economic disparity has widened while it demanded a white paper on the state of the economy.

The Maharashtra Police has registered a case against Odia movie producer Sanjay Nayak following a written complaint by actress Prakruti Mishra alleging defamation, an official said Saturday.

Bhimkund in Patna block of Keonjhar will be developed as a world-class tourist spot. As per the direction of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the 5T Secretary is on a visit to Keonjhar to assess various developmental initiatives.

 Odisha Police has destroyed drugs, including brown sugar, worth over `600 crore in the last one year, an official said, Saturday.

Heatwave conditions scorched Odisha Saturday with Jharsuguda recording the highest temperature of 44.8 degrees Celsius, officials said. At least seven places in the western part of the state recorded temperatures of more than 44 degrees Celsius, they said.

EPFO Bhubaneswar released the PF, pension and insurance benefits to the family of Late Jitendra Kumar Sahoo, an employee of L & P Associates, Bhubaneswar within 7 days of the tragic train accident at Balasore.

The construction of a new bridge on Baitarani river here in Keonjhar district moved a step ahead following the completion of the tender process, a report said. A private consultancy firm Rajveer Construction Private Ltd was awarded the the Rs 79 crore project.

A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conducted a safety inspection of the ropeway located at the Hirakud dam site in this district.

No train will halt at Bahanaga Bazar station as the CBI investigating the train accident has sealed it after seizing the log book, relay panel and equipment, a railway official said Saturday.

Incidents of violence continued on the second day of nomination filing for West Bengal panchayat polls Saturday, with the opposition BJP, Congress and CPI(M) alleging their candidates were prevented from submitting papers by the ruling TMC activists and goons.

Political scientists Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav Saturday reiterated their request to NCERT to drop their names as chief advisors from political science textbooks, saying they cannot be forced to introduce a textbook they no longer recognise.

The Kuki tribals in Manipur have again reiterated their demand to create a separate administration, equivalent to a separate state for them, even though the Central and state governments, on a number of occasions, rejected any division of the northeastern state.

 A 14-year-old Hindu girl, who was allegedly kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to a Muslim man in Pakistan’s Sindh province, has appeared before a district court which refused to send her with her parents despite her insistence that she wanted to go with them.

Security Forces conducted Joint Combing Operations for the fourth day in sensitive areas both in the hills and valleys following violence and ethnic clashes in the state, Indian Army officials said on Saturday.

Two men were arrested from a suburb in Mumbai on Saturday, a day after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut claimed he and his MLA brother Sunil Raut had received death threat calls and asked the Maharashtra government to take them seriously.

The trial run of Patna-Ranchi Vande Bharat Express will take place on June 12, a Railway official said on Saturday.

The "minor" who was among the seven women wrestlers accusing the Wrestling Federation of India President and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment, changed her statement under pressure, Olympian Sakshee Malikkh told NDTV.