The RBI Wednesday barred Paytm Payments Bank Ltd from accepting deposits or top-ups in any customer account, prepaid instruments, wallets, and FASTags, among others after February 29, 2024.

The district court here Wednesday ruled that a priest can perform prayers before the idols in a cellar of the Gyanvapi Masjid here, a significant development in the legal battle over the mosque adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday launched affordable bus services in Deogarh, Angul and Dhenkanal districts under the flagship scheme - Location Accessible Multi-modal Initiative (LAccMI) - which aims at connecting panchayats to blocks and blocks to district headquarters.

The trailer for Bhumi Pednekar’s next film, Bhakshak (literally translating to predator) was released. In the film, the actress will be essaying the role of an investigative journalist, who is out to expose those involved in a case of sexual assault of girls at a shelter home.

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), a 58- year-old institution known for its journalism and mass communication courses with a campus in Dhenkanal, was Wednesday granted the status of a deemed to-be university, empowering it to award degrees rather than just diplomas, according to the Union Ministry of Education.

To overcome the dearth of doctors in government-run hospitals, the state government modified the existing policy for execution of an agreement in shape of bond with an objective to retain the passing out doctors to utilise their services for two years.

IIMSambalpur signed Wednesday an agreement with NSE Academy to offer joint certification programmes, tailored for working professionals, a statement released here said.

Researchers from various national and international organisations have discovered a new species of burrowing frog in Bangalore. Named as ‘Sphaerotheca Varshaabhu’, this previously unknown species of frog has been thriving amidst the urban landscape of Bangalore.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a fresh and the fifth summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his questioning in the Delhi excise policy linked money laundering case, official sources said Wednesday.

After experiencing a drier-than-usual December and January, north India is expected to see normal to above-normal rainfall in February, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Addressing a press conference Wednesday.

 President Droupadi Murmu Wednesday said the centuries-old desire to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya has now become reality as she listed the achievements of the Modi government over the past 10 years.

Hours after the Prosecutor General of Maldives was attacked by unidentified persons Monday, a blame game has erupted between the ruling and the Opposition parties that called the attack “politically motivated,” according to local media and social media reports.

The Union government’s fiscal deficit touched `9.82 lakh crore or 55 per cent of the annual Budget target at December-end 2023, according to data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) Wednesday.

State-owned National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Wednesday extended the KYC compliance deadline for FASTags till February 29.

The growth of eight key infrastructure sectors slowed to a 14-month low of 3.8 per cent in December 2023, on account of poor performance of sectors like crude oil, electricity, steel and cement, according to the official data released Wednesday.