- Elections will be held June 10 to fill 57 Rajya Sabha seats from 15 states falling vacant due to the retirement of members on different dates between June and August, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said Thursday.
- Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar was Thursday appointed as the next chief election commissioner. He will assume charge May 15, Kumar will demit office sometime in February 2025.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik accorded in-principle approval Thursday to Mahanadi Coalfields Limited’s (MCL) proposal to take over the operations of the medical college in Angul district. The state government will run the medical college and hospital, while MCL will provide the necessary funds for it, officials said.
- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized cash and fixed deposits worth more than `133 crore of former MLA Jitendra Nath Patnaik in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal mining in the state, the agency said Thursday.
- Fourteen more people, including four children, tested positive for Covid in Odisha, taking the state’s coronavirus tally to 12,88,253, the state Health department said in a bulletin Thursday
- The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench Thursday dismissed the petition seeking opening of 22 rooms in the Taj Mahal premises.
- At least 2,827 new COVID-19 cases reported in India in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of coronavirus cases to 4,31,13,413. According to the Health Ministry data, the active cases dipped to 19,067 on Thursday.
- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that the Central Government isn't releasing funds to Bengal for MGNREGA and PM Awas Yojana.
- Over 1,000 acres of panchayat land has been freed from encroachment in the last 12 days, Punjab Rural Development minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said on Thursday.
- Two pilots were killed after a helicopter crashed at an airport in Chhattisgarh's Raipur, said police.
- The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction and 10-year jail term awarded to a man for sexually assaulting his minor niece, noting that they are now married and have kids and the court cannot disturb their happy family life.
- The Supreme Court's historic decision to put the 162-year-old sedition law on hold till the central government completes the promised exercise to reconsider and re-examine the provision is hugely significant
- The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court on Thursday ordered the Mathura court to dispose of all the cases of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute within four months.
- Facing the daunting task of revamping the party after a series of poll reverses, over 400 Congress leaders will go into a huddle at its 'Chintan Shivir' starting here Friday focusing on time-bound party restructuring, finding ways to combat politics of polarisation and getting battle-ready for upcoming electoral challenges.
- A local court rejected Thursday a plea to replace the advocate commissioner it had appointed for conducting a videography survey of the GyanvapiShringar Gauri complex here and ordered the completion of the task by May 17.
- A day after being arrested in connection with a money laundering case and remanded to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate, the Jharkhand government Thursday suspended state mining secretary Pooja Singhal, an official said
- Shiv Sena MLA from Mumbai, Ramesh Latke, died of a cardiac arrest in Dubai, party leader Sanjay Raut said Thursday. He was 52. Latke, who represented Andheri East assembly constituency in the city, died late night Wednesday
- Industrial production growth remained subdued at 1.9 per cent in March compared to a year ago, mainly due to poor performance by the manufacturing sector which showed staggered impact of the third wave of the pandemic.
- Over 40 people were injured when a passenger plane of China's Tibet Airlines with 113 passengers and nine crew onboard veered off the runway and caught fire while taking off in the country's southwest Chongqing city on Thursday, the second major aviation accident in the country in two months.
- A government employee belonging to the Kashmir Pandit community was killed by militants inside his office in Chadoora of Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday. Two gunmen entered the Tehsil office in Chadoora town and shot at Rahul Bhat, a clerk posted there under the special employment package for migrants, officials said.
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