The Monsoon session of the Parliament will commence from July 20 and continue till August 11, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said Saturday.

In what is being called the biggest transaction in the history of India Inc, HDFC Bank has taken over its parent, housing finance major HDFC, Saturday. Following the reverse merger, the country's first home finance company, would cease to exist.

Since the unrest began Tuesday night, police have made a total of 2,400 arrests — more than half of those in the fourth night of violence, triggered by the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old by police.

As the monsoon sets in, the state is witnessing an alarming rise in dengue cases with the Capital City of Bhubaneswar recording 92 out of the state total of 175.

 The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police has arrested a software company employee identified as Abhijeet Sanjay Jambure for his alleged involvement in an OTP selling and sharing scam. Jambure was in regular touch with two Pakistani intelligence officials for a long time, said an official Saturday.

At least 25 passengers were charred to death when the private bus they were travelling in caught fire after hitting a pole and a divider on Nagpur-Mumbai ‘Samruddhi Expressway’ in eastern Maharashtra’s Buldhana district in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

Odisha has recorded a 10.46 per cent growth in gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection – from `3,965.28 crore in June 2022 to `4,379.97 crore in June 2023, an official said Saturday.

The Union government could introduce a Bill on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) during the Monsoon Session of the Parliament set to begin July 20 and continue till August 11.

Four cyber fraudsters have been arrested for duping people of `14 lakh by sending malicious links to mobile phones, said twin city Commissionerate Police Saturday.

 At least 13 more bodies of the June 2 Balasore train accident kept at AIIMS Bhubaneswar were handed over to their family members Saturday, official sources said. Of the 29 bodies identified using DNA sampling, six were handed over to their families Friday and 13 Saturday, a railway official said.

As the Assembly is not in session, the state government has brought the much-awaited Odisha Apartment (Ownership & Management) Bill, 2023, through ordinance route.

There is no let-up in road mishaps in Ganjam district as two more trauma care centres will be established at Khallikote and Bhanjanagar in the southern district, apart from the existing one in Berhampur, a report said Saturday

A UK-based company is planning to set up a semiconductor fabrication unit in Ganjam district with an investment of `30,000 crore in the first phase, officials said

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday requested Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud for an early hearing of a batch of petitions challenging the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019

The Supreme Court late Saturday night protected social activist Teesta Setalvad from arrest and stayed for a week the Gujarat High Court order rejecting her plea for regular bail and asking her to surrender immediately in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riot cases.

The Gwalior bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has requested the Centre to reduce the consent age of females to 16, observing that the present age of 18 has disturbed the fabric of society as injustice is going on with adolescent boys.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to end a decade-long peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African country’s military junta abruptly asked the 13,000-strong force to leave - a move the United States said was engineered by Russia’s Wagner mercenary group

Pakistan Saturday handed over a list of 308 Indian prisoners, including 42 civil and 266 fishermen, lodged in its jails to the High Commission of India here as part of a bilateral agreement.

 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday said the public sector banks’ profit in the last nine years has tripled to Rs 1.04 lakh crore due to initiatives taken by the government and underlined the need for continuing the momentum to fuel economy.

Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra clinched the prestigious Diamond League title for the second consecutive time by throwing his spear to 87.66m Friday but the coveted 90m mark eluded the star Indian javelin thrower yet again.