Oil prices rise more than 2% boosted by potential disruption to Middle East supply amid Red Sea crisis

Russia fires scores of missiles and drones at Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv.

Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal Tuesday said the demand for setting up a permanent bench of the Orissa High Court in the state’s western region has lost its importance after the introduction of e-Court facilities.

Twenty-two days after her rescue from an abandoned bore-well in a forested area of Sambalpur district, the police Tuesday said the biological parents of the baby girl were identified.

Social activist Sandeep Pandey has announced his decision to return the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, bestowed upon him in 2002, as a mark of protest against the ‘role’ of the US in the Israeli attack in Gaza.

The Orissa High Court Tuesday asked the state government to show cause as to why a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should not be ordered into the sensational murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati at his Jalespata ashram in Kandhamal in August 2008 that triggered riots in the district killing at least 38 people.

Asia's largest brackish water lagoon Chilika will remain closed for visitors January 3 and 4 for the annual bird census, officials said here Tuesday. The midwinter survey of birds in the lake will be carried out by the Chilika Wildlife Division January 4, while training will imparted to enumerators on January 3, they informed.

Himachal Pradesh, which witnessed massive destruction due to heavy rains during the monsoon season, recorded 45 percent raindeficit in the post-monsoon period from October 1 to December 31, the weather office said Monday.

The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu, Monday decided to start Rajiv Gandhi Swarozgar Start Up Yojna Phase (II), for setting up solar power projects for those aged between 21 and 45 years, besides achieving the government’s ‘clean energy’ initiatives.

Hospitals cannot admit critically ill patients in the intensive care unit in case of refusal by them and their relatives, the Union Health Ministry has said in its recent guidelines on ICU admissions.

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Bihar government to put in the public domain the breakup of the caste survey data to enable those aggrieved to challenge the findings.

The BRICS bloc of top emerging economies, including India, Russia and China, has announced induction of five full members into it in an attempt to expand its strategic heft against the backdrop of Western dominance in world affairs.

Making unsubstantiated allegations of extramarital relationship against a husband and portraying him as a womaniser in public space are acts of extreme cruelty that merit dissolution of marriage, the Delhi High Court has held.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday declared he had met his target to clear the country’s “legacy” asylum backlog by the end of 2023 and also bucked the trend across Europe by cutting down arrivals of illegal migrants via small boats by 36 per cent.

Chennai Quick Guns played out another exciting 30-30 draw against defending champions Odisha Juggernauts in the Ultimate Kho Kho tournament here Tuesday. The earlier meeting between the two teams had also resulted in a tie.