Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday announced a four per cent hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for state government employees and pensioners. With this raise, the rate of DA for Odisha government employees and DR for pensioners has now increased to 46 per cent from 42 per cent, an official said.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday inaugurated Location Accessible Multimodal Initiative (LAccMI), the affordable transportation scheme, in Gajapati district

 Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday announced a cash incentive of `10 lakh each for the seven paraathletes from Odisha who will be participating in the Hangzhou Asian Para Games beginning October 22.

A local court here Friday awarded life imprisonment to three persons after convicting them for murder here in 1996.

Keeping in mind the sufferings of thousands of home-bound commuters during the Puja holidays and, following intense parleys with the government, the striking private bus operators in the state blinked Friday evening and put their agitation on hold till October 31.

Observing that litigants may become disillusioned if the legal process moves at a snail’s pace, the Supreme Court Friday issued directions, including a few to the High Courts, for ensuring speedy trial and disposal of old cases.

Consistently sleeping less than five hours a night might raise the risk of developing depressive symptoms, according to a new genetic study. Both sleep duration and depression are partly inherited from one generation to the next, according to researchers. The study led by UCL (University College London) researchers and published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, analysed data from people with an average age of 65 and found short sleep was associated with the onset of depressive symptoms.

Observing that manual scavengers have lived in bondage, systematically trapped in inhuman conditions for a long time, the Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre and state governments to completely eradicate manual scavenging across the country.

As electric scooters become an increasingly popular mode of transportation, new research led by an Indianorigin scientist finds a 71 per cent increase in injuries reported in children and teens aged 18 and younger, with limited use of helmets resulting in the head as the most injured body part.

Justice Siddharth Mridul was Friday sworn in as the Chief Justice of Manipur High Court during a ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan in Imphal. Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey administered the oath of office to Justice Mridul.

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar Friday decided to club the cross-petitions filed by the rival Shiv Sena factions seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs after a split in the party last year, and hear them together, an opposition legislator said after attending a hearing on the matter.

Elon Musk said Friday social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, will soon launch two new tiers of premium subscriptions. “One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads, and the other is more expensive, but has no ads,” Musk said on a post on X

The share of Russian oil in India’s overall imports rose to about two-fifths in the first half of fiscal 2023/24, consolidating Moscow’s position as the top supplier as refiners curbed purchase from the Middle East, industry data showed.

Attempting to prepare for every possibility, which is now a part of its ethos, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry out an abort test for the human space mission, Gaganyaan,

Accusing the BJP-led government at the centre of misusing its power as well as central agencies, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel on Friday alleged that the central government will immediately take action against him on getting an opportunity.

The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short on its first day Friday with the AAP government announcing it would move the Supreme Court against the governor for not approving the three Bills that were to be tabled in the House.

The CBI has unearthed a sophisticated network involving foreign elements which cheated Indians of hundreds of crore by luring them with job and loan offers as well as fooling them into investing in Ponzi schemes.

Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said that India will have the world's second-largest operational urban transport metro system in a year and a half.

A central air quality panel announced on Friday that starting November 1, only electric, CNG and BS VI-compliant diesel buses will be allowed to operate between Delhi and cities and towns in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan falling within NCR.

Taking a grim view of incidents of sewer deaths in the country, the Supreme Court today said government authorities will have to pay ₹ 30 lakh as compensation to the family of those who die while cleaning sewers.