Eight more Odisha products have received Geographical Indication (GI) tag. They include Kai Chutney ( Mayurbhanj) , Magji sweet (Dhenkanal) , Kanteimundi brinjal (Nayagarh), Kalajeera Rice (Koraput ), Date Palm Jaggery (Gajapati), Dungaria Kondh Embroidered Shawl (Rayagada), and Idital painting of Lanjia Saura Odisha, the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises(MSME) department informed Wednesday

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 70.69 per cent of total donations received by all political parties from electoral trusts in 2022-23, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the NGO working for electoral reforms.

A three judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud Wednesday issued notice to the Union government and 10 states, including Odisha on a petition alleging that the jail manuals of these states encourage caste based discrimination.

In a big relief to the embattled Adani Group, a Supreme Court bench Wednesday ruled that the fraud allegations against the apples-toairport conglomerate do not need more probes either by a special investigation team or CBI, as it gave capital market regulator SEBI three more months to conclude its over twoyear-old investigation.

Bringing an end to 23-year-long wait, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday inaugurated the Rs2,723 crore worth Lower Suktel Irrigation Project in Bolangir district which will help irrigate over one lakh acre of agriculture land and benefit over 80,000 farmers, besides providing drinking water to 70,000 people in Bolangir and Subarnapur districts.

Two bombs exploded minutes apart Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain in a US drone strike in 2020, officials in Iran said, killing at least 103 people and wounding at least 188 as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday approved a hike in the stipend amount for students of nursing, pharmacy other related categories, officials said. Students of Diploma in Pharmacy will now get `500 per month from the earlier amount of `250, ANM `2,000 from `1,000, BSc (Nursing) internship course `5,000 from `2,500, M. Phil in Clinical Psychology and M.Phil in Psychiatric Social Work `10,000 from `7,000, an official release said.

An interstate gang that stole mobile phones and then transferred money from the victims’ accounts using SIM cards in them was busted in Odisha with the police arresting its eight members Wednesday, officials said.

Keeping in view non-compliance of guidelines issued by the Supreme Court by several school buses, the state Transport department Wednesday issued a fresh set of regulations. As per the department, the Supreme Court has issued these rules but these are being largely flouted across the country.

In deference to an order issued by the Orissa High Court, about 70 deer from Tulsipur Deer Park in Cuttack have already been relocated to Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary on Bhubaneswar outskirts, even as the facility is heading for a closure.

The Odisha Protection of Interest of Depositors (OPID) court Wednesday ordered competent authorities to confiscate and sell movable and immovable properties of a firm associated with the Artha Tatwa (AT) Group which was involved in fraudulent revenue schemes.

Odisha Orthopaedics Association (OOA) got the first prize in the annual conference of the Indian Orthopaedics Association (IOA) held in Luckow recently. For the first time, OOA bagged first prize in two events.

The New Year began with good news for Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh as the Namibian cheetah Aasha gave birth to three cubs Wednesday. All three cubs are reported to be healthy.

The standoff between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan continues unabated, as the latter did not invite the former for the customary Christmas-New Year lunch here Wednesday.

The Madhya Pradesh government has removed Kishor Kanyal from the post of Shajapur district collector after he questioned the ‘aukat’ (status) of a driver amid a protest by truckers.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday skipped for the third time the summons issued by the ED in the Delhi excise policy case with the AAP alleging that the repeated notices were part of a conspiracy to arrest him to stop him from campaigning in the Lok Sabha polls.

The Supreme Court Wednesday sought a reply from the Lok Sabha secretary general on Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra’s plea challenging her expulsion from the Lower House.

The Enforcement Directorate Wednesday raided premises of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's press advisor, officials of Sahibganj district and a former MLA as part of a money laundering probe into alleged illegal mining in the state, sources said.

India registered about 12 lakh new cancer cases and 9.3 lakh deaths in 2019, becoming the second highest contributor to the disease burden in Asia for that year, according to a new study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal

A court here Wednesday directed AAP leader Sanjay Singh to pay `1 lakh in damages to former Uttar Pradesh minister Mahendra Kumar Singh in a defamation case.