The CBI conducted searches at 25 locations in connection with an FIR registered against 21 BSNL officials, including a former general manager, officials said.

With heavy rains for the past few days, Assam is witnessing the first wave of flash floods this year. Incessant rainfall is inundating new areas across 11 districts and impacting over 34,000 people.

A total of 2,36,464 nominations have been filed for nearly 74,000 seats in the three-tier panchayat election scheduled in West Bengal on July 8, a senior official of the State Election Commission (SEC) said.

The CBI has filed a charge sheet in the infamous ₹ 250-crore pulses scam involving the export of 60,000 metric tonne of pulses despite a government ban in 2006-07, nearly 17 years after a case was first registered in the matter, officials said.

According to Income Tax officials, linking one's PAN with Aadhaar is an important step to help curb tax evasion.

The toll in Bahanaga Bazar train disaster rose to 290 after a 17-year-old resident of Bihar succumbed to his injuries in SCB Medical College and Hospital here Friday, officials said.

The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society housed in Teen Murti Bhavan premises here has been renamed by the government as Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society, prompting sharp reactions from the Congress which termed it as a petty act.

Security forces killed five heavily armed foreign terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday and said it was the biggest infiltration bid to have been foiled since 2021, when India and Pakistan effected a ceasefire understanding.

A video Friday showed a man in Hyderabad being beaten up for sitting on the seat reserved for Lord Hanuman during the screening of movie ‘Adipurush’. Another purportedly showed a fan dressed as the Hindu god greeting moviegoers outside a theatre.

The potential of state as a tourist destination for both foreign and domestic travellers has not been fully explored, INTACH Odisha State Convener Amiya Bhushan Tripathy said Friday.

Odisha continued to reel under intense heatwave conditions as the maximum daytime temperature hovered between 40 and 45.6 degree Celsius in at least 30 places, Friday.

Former Jajpur MP (Lok Sabha) Anadi Charan Das passed away at the age of 97.

Nexus Esplanade organised its flagship event Raja Rani-2023 to give an opportunity to girls and women of all age groups to celebrate their womanhood.

Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Friday demanded an inquiry by senior officers of Labour department and Factory and Boilers directorate into the explosion of steam pipe at the Tata Steel plant at Meramunduli June 13 in Dhenkanal district.

The Punjab government on Friday requested that a United States Consulate should be established in Chandigarh.

Former Special Director General of Tamil Nadu Police (Law and Order) Rajesh Das is perhaps the third senior IPS officer to be convicted for sexual misconduct while in service, after K P S Gill and S P S Rathore.

More than 105 academicians, including vice chancellors and IIM chairpersons, supported NCERT's move to rationalise textbooks and said the "spectacle" by some "arrogant and self-interested" people seeking withdrawal of their names from textbooks is disrupting the curriculum updation process.

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Friday appointed Giani Raghbir Singh as the new Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs.

State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday paid a dividend of `5,740 crore for the financial year 2022-23 to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Odisha athletes at the ongoing National Inter-State Championship at the Kalinga Stadium , Friday. Woman sprinter Srabani Nanda was impressive in 100m dash securing a silver medal, while Amiya Kumar Mallick had a disappointing outing in the men’s 100m event, where another Odia sprinter Lalu Prasad Bhoi missed out on the podium by a whisker..