In a historic commemoration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a yoga session for the first time at UN Headquarters on the 9th International Day of Yoga to be celebrated on June 2

The Congress government led by Siddaramaiah has decided to scrap the law against religious conversion, meeting its promise of reviewing and if necessary, scrapping all the laws made by the previous BJP government in Karnataka.

 Indian cuisine, be it of any variety, has created a niche for itself across the globe. The curries, the dosas, the spicy preparations, the various types of sweets all have contributed to the tongue titillation across the globe.

A total 7,000 tickets will be sold by the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) for a ‘darshan’ of the sibling deities June 19, an official said Thursday.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday approved `112 crore plan for the complete transformation of the Mahima Gadi Peetha at Joranda in Dhenkanal district.

Odisha is one of the states which is going to be impacted by Central government’s decision to disallow states from buying foodgrains from the Food corporation of India (FCI).

The Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar will confer the 4th National Water Awards June 17 at a ceremony to be organised at Vigyan Bhawan by Department of Water Resources, River Developmet and Ganga Rejuvenation (DoWR, RD &GR), Ministry of Jal Shakti.

After a respite of two days, heatwave Thursday returned to the coastal belt of Odisha with 24 places in the state recording temperatures of 40 degrees celsius or more.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday met the students of SAI International School who have secured the top ranks in Odisha in the recently published results of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), 2023.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communication and Information Technology Thursday refused to hold discussion on the CoWIN data breach. The data of several Indians, including politicians and journalists, vaccinated against Covid-19 was leaked on a Telegram bot.

An 80-yearold woman was allegedly raped by a man 50 years younger than her in Kendrapara district, police said Thursday. The accused had offered her a lift to her daughter‘s house on his motorcycle in a village in Kendrapara district Wednesday evening and committed the offence, the police.

Strong winds and heavy rains lashed Kutch and Saurashtra coasts as powerful cyclone Biparjoy made landfall near Jakhau Port in Gujarat Thursday evening after churning across the Arabian Sea for more than 10 days as multi-agency response teams remained on high alert for relief and rescue operations.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin Thursday warned the BJP not to “provoke” the DMK, saying it will not be able to “bear the consequences” and that his party also knows “all types of politics”, escalating his attack on the saffron party after the arrest of his cabinet colleague V Senthil Balaji.

The Defence Ministry on Thursday accorded its approval to procure 30 MQ-9B Predator drones from the US to crank up the surveillance apparatus of the armed forces, especially along the frontier with China, people familiar with the development said

 At least two houses were set on fire by a mob here Thursday afternoon a day after an attack in the Khamenlok area left nine people dead and injured ten others, officials said. Security forces which tried to quell the mob were forced to use force and fired tear gas shells at the mob at New Checkon in Imphal, they added.

The Karnataka Cabinet Thursday approved the revision of Kannada and Social Science textbooks of classes 6 to 10 in the state for this academic year by removing the chapters on RSS founder K B Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar among others.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately and repeatedly misled Parliament when he denied knowledge of Covid-19 law-breaching parties in Downing Street, a crossparty parliamentary panel said Thursday in its damning report into the Partygate scandal.

North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Thursday, the South Korean military said, in a resumption of its weapons testing activities to protest just-ended South Korean-U.S. livefire drills, which it views as an invasion rehearsal.

Global temperatures have accelerated to recordsetting levels this month, an ominous sign in the climate crisis ahead of a gathering El Nino that could potentially propel 2023 to become the hottest year ever recorded.

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj came out with an 'offer' for the grand old party, saying that if it doesn't contest elections in Delhi and Punjab, the AAP will also not contest the upcoming elections in Madhya Pradesh and in Rajasthan.