The CBSE through a circular dated July 21 has allowed its affiliated schools to use their mother tongue language as an optional medium of instruction from pre-primary to Class XII in addition to other existing options.

A month-long survey in order to prepare an error-free electoral roll ahead of the General Election next year started across Odisha. State Chief Electoral Officer NB Dhal said the survey which started from July 21 will continue till August 21 next month all over Odisha covering all 30 districts and 147 Assembly constituencies.

The state government’s own revenue collection till June 30 of financial year (FY) 2023-24 has dipped by 2.39 per cent as compared to the revenue collected during the same period of the last fiscal.

Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik Saturday became the second longest-serving Chief Minister in the country, replacing West Bengal’s Jyoti Basu.

In order to alert people in advance about flood, the state water resources department will build 14 more forecasting systems in Baitarani and Budhabalanga rivers, a report said.

The political war of words over Manipur intensified Saturday with the BJP raising the incidents of atrocities against women in West Bengal and Rajasthan and questioning the "silence" of the opposition, which termed it as a diversionary tactic to avoid debate on the situation in the northeastern state

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Saturday arrested IAS officer Ranu Sahu in Chhattisgarh in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged coal levy scam in the state, officials said.

The prosecution will have to establish motive for commission of crime if there is no eyewitness of an incident, the Supreme Court has said while acquitting a man convicted in a 2008 murder case.

A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea prompted authorities to evacuate everyone in a fivekm (3.1-mile) radius and briefly suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia, the Moscow-installed regional governor said Saturday

The United States commissioned a warship in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, the first time a US Navy vessel joined active service at a foreign port, as the two close allies step up their military ties in response to China’s expanding regional reach.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had asked the head of NATO to convene a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council to discuss security in the Black Sea, particularly the operation of a corridor for Ukrainian grain exports.

Antim Panghal made a statement by winning the 53kg trials, moments after her plea challenging the exemption given to Vinesh Phogat was dismissed.

Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia's Asian Games trials exemption allowed by Delhi High Court: News agency PTI.

A businessman from Nagpur lost staggering ₹ 58 crore in online gambling and the investigation led police to a suspected bookie and the recovery of ₹ 14 crore cash along with four kg of gold biscuits on Saturday, a top police officer said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday launched a scathing attack at Congress and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) over its tenure in Manipur till 2017 stating that northeastern state had became the blockade capital.

Digital payments firm Paytm reported a 39% rise in quarterly revenue, helped by soaring demand for loans.

Seven leading artificial intelligence (AI) tech companies like Google, OpenAI and Meta have reached a deal with the Joe Biden administration to roll out fresh guardrails to manage risks associated with AI.

The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, said on Saturday that the state has faced the harshest rain and flood disasters in the past 75 years.

Customs officials at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport made the “biggest ever” seizure of foreign currency, worth over `10 crore ($7,20,000 and Euro 4,66,200), from three Tajikistan nationals Friday. This is the biggest ever case of smuggling of foreign currency through any airport in India

Debutant Mukesh Kumar was rewarded for his nagging channel bowling as his maiden wicket in international cricket gave India something to cheer about as West Indies reached 117/2 when rain forced umpires to take an early lunch on the third day of the second Test here Saturday.