BJP MP from East Delhi Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday said that reduction of height of the Ghazipur landfill has been his priority from day one, and claimed that in three years the massive dump will be "decimated totally".

Instant messaging platform WhatsApp on Wednesday said it banned 37.16 lakh accounts in India in November, about 60 per cent more than the accounts it barred in the preceding month.

Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer, will be released on health grounds, the Nepal Supreme Court ordered today. The Indian-origin killer was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s.

In a feat that gave a new lease of life to four patients suffering from end-stage kidney failure, the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) Hospital in Hyderabad performed four kidney transplants within a span of 24 hours.

The Union Defence Ministry rejected Wednesday Odisha’s tableau for Republic Day celebrations. This is the third year in succession that Odisha’s tableau has been rejected.

The Odisha government is taking all precautionary measures keeping in mind the threat of the BF.7 variant of Covid-19. Health Secretary of the Odisha government, Shalini Pandit said in a letter Wednesday that surveillance has to be increased to tackle the new variant.

Shah Rukh Khan has become the only Indian to be named in the list of ‘50 Greatest Actors of All Time’, released by Empire magazine.

In one of the biggest seizure of disproportionate assets, Vigilance officials have recovered `1,60,44,500 suspected ill-gotten money from the possession of Gaya Santara, Deputy Manager, IDCOL, Ampa Valli Limestone Mines, Simagoda, Koraput Wednesday. The Vigilance sleuths also traced 1kg 83 gm gold and 6kg 750 gm silver at his Bhubaneswar residence and `4.19 crore as bank deposits.

As many as 103 super speciality hospitals outside Odisha have been brought under the purview of Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY), an official said Wednesday.

The State Civil Supplies Corporation has not paid market fee worth `18.18 crore to the Regulated Market Committee (RMC) in Bhadrak for the last three years

The Delhi Police Wednesday destroyed over 2,800 kgs of drugs worth Rs 1,513.05 crore seized under a campaign in the last eight years, officials said

Bihar has lesser numbers of liquor deaths as compared to other states but the NHRC came to Chapra for the investigation. Why it would not go to other states? I can't understand what they would find in Chapra. We are already investigating the incident, said NitishKumar .

The Indian Railways is all set to launch the Sri Jagannath Yatra tourist train that will begin its maiden journey from Delhi on January 25. This train will be launched under the Railways’ Bharat Gaurav initiative, sources said. The train will cover prominent heritage and pilgrimage destinations of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Jharkhand.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has often astonished the world with his trips to the battlefield but his visit to Washington to press for military aid has delivered the biggest surprise of the 10 months since Russia invaded his country.

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the owner of Overa group, Jaysukh Patel, in connection with the Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat, demanding a reply.

Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said the state government will ask schools in the state to install CCTV cameras as a way to prevent sexual assaults on girl students.

A person may learn as many languages out of his or her own volition but it is the language policy of the state government that no language would be accepted if it was imposed, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said in Chennai on Wednesday.

Two months after his retirement as a judge of the Supreme Court, the Centre has appointed Justice Hemant Gupta as Chairperson of the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre.

A Mumbai court on Wednesday rejected independent MP Navneet Rana's review application against the denial of discharge in a case where she is accused of fraudulently obtaining her caste certificate.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said West Bengal is a state where people are not divided on the basis of their religious identity.