A brief Budget Session of Parliament is likely to start January 31 and conclude February 9, sources said Thursday. President Droupadi Murmu will address a joint sitting of the two Houses January 31, they said.

All four Shankaracharyas – pontiffs of major Hindu shrines – will not attend the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya January 22, the Scroll reported.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday unveiled the logo of the first World Odia Language Conference (Biswa Odia Bhasa Sammilani) with the tagline ‘Language in the Future’. Language in the Future’. The conference is scheduled to take place from February 3 to 5.

The state government has adopted a wellplanned strategy to ensure the overall safety and security of tribal students in all SSD schools and hostels especially girl boarders.

In view of the fact that the newly inaugurated Ayodhya airport will witness unprecedented rush January 22 when the Pran Pratishtha ceremony takes place at the Ram temple, concerned officials have decided to adopt the ‘drop-and-move’ policy.

 IT major Google will develop a digitisation agenda for Telangana in farming, education and health sectors.

The Uttar Pradesh government has unveiled a plan to boost religious tourism and improve sanitation along the Saryu Ghats in Ayodhya by installing 500 pre-fabricated toilets along the river bank.

National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah did not appear before the Enforcement Directorate .

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri-Poonch region is a matter of “concern” and enhancing deployment of troops, boosting intelligence apparatus and reaching out to local people are part of measures being initiated to contain terrorist activities in the area, Chief of Army Staff Gen Manoj Pande said Thursday.

The India Meteorological Department will provide panchayat-level weather forecast from next week, particularly to help small farmers plan farming better and cut down climate-induced losses, its chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said Thursday.

Indore bagged the cleanest city of India title for the seventh time in a row while Surat came out a joint winner for the top rank in the Central government’s annual cleanliness survey, the results of which were announced Thursday.

The Supreme Court Thursday extended by six months the interim bail of former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik in a money laundering case.

The UK government will introduce new legislation to overturn the convictions of hundreds of post office managers who were wrongly convicted of theft and fraud.

 Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister declared a state of emergency Thursday, suspending government and police officials after 16 people were killed in rioting in the Pacific island nation.

The net direct tax collection so far this fiscal rose 19.41 per cent to Rs 14.70 lakh crore, reaching about 81 per cent of the full-year target, the income tax department said Thursday.

Rating agency ICRA expects the government to peg the fiscal deficit target at 5.3 per cent of GDP and keep disinvestment proceeds estimates to below Rs 50,000 crore in the interim budget for 2024-25.

 India’s fringe players, led by Shivam Dube, made the opportunity count to set up a six-wicket win over Afghanistan in the first T20I of the three-match series here Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri--Nhava Sheva Atal Setu, built at cost of about ₹ 17,840 crore.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has once again asked the central government to change the name of her state to 'Bangla'.

The Lok Sabha Secretariat on Thursday revoked the disqualification of BSP leader Afzal Ansari as a member of the Lower House after the Supreme Court conditionally suspended his conviction in a Gangsters Act case.