The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has been invited to attend India's Republic Day celebrations.

A court here has allowed AAP leader Sanjay Singh, arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise scam, to physically visit the returning officer for the Rajya Sabha election in connection with the filing of nomination papers.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is set to embark upon a three-day visit to the UK from Monday, seen as significant to the bilateral partnership in the sphere of defence and security as the last ministerial level visit took place 22 years ago.

In yet another twist in the Hi-Tech Hospital AC compressor blast and the subsequent major goofup in identification of the dead bodies, the man who was declared dead four days ago and found to be alive later, succumbed to his burn injuries Saturday, officials of the hospital said.

In yet another success for its space programme, India’s first solar mission craft Aditya-L1 Saturday reached its destination, the L1 point, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth from where it will orbit the Sun and study our star’s wonders, uninterrupted by eclipses and occultations.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched virtually Saturday projects worth more than `120 crore which will boost the sports development in Sambalpur district. He inaugurated the Burla Indoor Stadium and laid the foundation stones for the Sambalpur Football Academy and the Sambalpur University Sports Complex, including a hockey stadium.

Credit to agriculture, MSME and Women Self Help Groups (WSHGs) is a pre-requisite for building a strong economy, said Chief Minsiter Naveen Patnaik here Saturday while giving cash awards to ‘Champion Banks’ for providing credit to these sectors.

Around 800 Bengali writers will read out their compositions and participate in sessions at a fiveday literary meet and little magazine fair here, starting from January 10, in Kolkata officials said Saturday

A day after a mob assaulted ED officers during a raid at the residence of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh in West Bengal, the Central agency Saturday issued a lookout notice for him, an official said.

India has recorded 756 new cases of Covid, while the number of active cases of the infection stood at 4,049, the health ministry said on Sunday.

Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, an accused in the alleged fraud of `538 crore at Canara Bank, Saturday told a special court here with “folded hands” that he had “lost every hope of life” and it will be “better if he dies in jail” than living in his present condition.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Saturday attached four properties owned by members of the Lawrence Bishnoi organised terror-crime syndicate in three states, an official said.

 A Varanasi court Saturday fixed January 24 for deciding whether to make public the sealed Archeological Survey of India (ASI) report on the Gyanvapi mosque complex survey and provide copies to the parties.

Aviation regulator DGCA Saturday directed domestic airlines to immediately carry out inspection of emergency exits of all Boeing 737-8 Max planes in their fleet. The directive comes in the wake of the Alaska Airlines incident involving Boeing 737 -9 Max aircraft. On Friday, the Alaska Airlines plane’s outer section, including a window, fell off mid-air.

Defending champions Odisha Juggernauts became the third side to enter the semifinals of the Ultimate Kho Kho (UKK), edging past Gujarat Giants 30-27 here Saturday