The Chandrayaan-3 mission's rover Pragyan has completed its assignments, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said today. The rover has been safely parked and put into sleep mode, ISRO said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

 India’s maiden solar mission ‘Aditya L1’, Saturday set off on a 125- day journey to the Sun in its attempt to study various elements relating to Earth’s nearest star, after being put into the orbit by a PSLV rocket that touched a new technical milestone in the launch vehicle segment.

President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Advocate Sibo Sankar Mishra and judicial officer Ananda Chandra Behera as judges of the Orissa High Court, Union MoS Law and Justice (I/C) Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said Saturday

 In a programme held at 7th Battalion Ground Saturday here, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik dedicated 190 new police vehicles to enhance operational capacities of the law enforcement agency

As many as 91,000 families of kendu leaf workers will be benefitted as the state government is all set provide scholarships to the wards of kendu leaf workers in the state, a report said Saturday.

A total of 75 teachers from across the country have been selected for the National Teachers’ Award which will be conferred upon them by President Droupadi Murmu September 5, according to Ministry of Education officials

The leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has declined to be part of the eight-member committee headed by ex President Ram Nath Kovind to see whether India could hold parliamentary and state assembly elections together.

As the national capital gears up for the G20 Summit, Northern Railways has decided to cancel and divert over 200 passenger trains temporarily from September 8 to 11 here, a notification stated on Saturday.

Hill cutting for any kind of private development and construction activity except for rebuilding disaster-affected buildings and roads have been banned in Himachal Pradesh for two weeks up to September 16, a spokesperson of the state government said.

A session of both Houses of Parliament will be held from September 18-22 without Question Hour or private members' business, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha secretariats said on Saturday.

Former Assembly Speaker and Digapahandi MLA Surjya Narayan Patro passed away at a private hospital here Saturday due to protracted illness. He was 75.

The Nobel Foundation Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision announced a day earlier “provoked strong reactions.”

The Biden administration will for the first time send controversial armorpiercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, according to a document seen by Reuters and separately confirmed by two US officials.

The government has cut the windfall profit tax on crude oil produced in the country while the levy on exports of diesel and ATF has been hiked, an official notification said. The tax, levied in the form of special additional excise duty or SAED, on domestically produced crude oil was reduced to Rs 6,700 per tonne from Rs 7,100 a tonne

The iconic Kalinga Stadium here will play host to the much-anticipated India versus Qatar match, a critical fixture in the FIFA World Cup 2026 and AFC Asian Cup 2027 joint qualifiers. The match will be played November 21, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) announced Saturday.