Norwegian author Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic writing in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for works that ‘give voice to the unsayable.’

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday asked students of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) to keep themselves abreast with the latest technology.

 Keeping in view its adverse impact on human and animal health, the state government has banned Paraquat, a highly toxic substance used as an herbicide.

A doctor was critically injured in an explosion after his car ran over illegal crackers being dried on the road at Khandiabandi village under Bharatpur panchayat and Sadar police limits in Kendrapara district, Thursday

Rajasthan would see a substantial number of 22 lakh first-time voters in the forthcoming Assembly elections, and at the same time 17,241 voters above 100 years of age will exercise their franchise.

India Thursday asserted that Canada must reduce its diplomatic presence in the country to achieve parity in strength and alleged that some of the Canadian diplomats are involved in interfering in New Delhi’s internal matters, signalling continuing slide in the ties between the two nations over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in June.

The Delhi Police Thursday questioned journalists Urmilesh and Abhisar Sharma for a second time this week in the NewClick foreign funding case, even as a court here directed the authorities to provide the copy of FIR to two persons arrested in the case under anti-terror law UAPA.

Bribery can never be a subject matter of immunity and a parliamentary privilege is not meant to place a lawmaker above law, the Centre Thursday told the Supreme Court which reserved its verdict on reconsideration of its judgement of 1998 when it held that MPs and MLAs enjoy immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or cast a vote in legislature.

Six soldiers are among 19 dead in the Sikkim flash floods, sources said today. Over 100 including 16 soldiers are missing and 3,000 tourists are stranded. Over 2,500 people have been evacuated so far, and 6,000 have been moved to relief camps.

Odia jawan Saroj Kumar Das, who was missing in Sikkim flash flood along with 22 other Army personnel, was found dead Thursday

Coming down heavily on CBI and Enforcement Directorate while hearing the bail petition of former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the excise policy case, the Supreme Court Thursday posed a volley of questions to the central agencies and asked the antimoney laundering wing how a case was made out against Sisodia.

 Fresh violence broke out in Manipur's Imphal West district where at least two houses were set on fire and several rounds of bullets were fired, police said Thursday.

 The women’s combine emerged triumphant in an edge-of-the-seat thriller while the men’s outfit secured the top prize without fuss as Indian compound archers swept all three gold medals on offer in team events, further bettering their best-ever show at the Asian Games, here Thursday

The Punjab government will attach the properties of everyone who built these assets by indulging in corruption, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Thursday and added that a crusade has been launched in the state against graft.

A day after the ED arrested AAP leader Sanjay Singh, the Congress has come out in support of its INDIA ally and condemned BJP's vendetta politics, but also used the opportunity to bring up the recent arrests of its leaders in Punjab