Odisha received an allocation of `10,536 crore for the development of railway infrastructure in 2024- 25, Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said after the interim Budget, Thursday

Pre-election Budget shuns populism, encourages vaccination of girls in 9-14 age group to prevent cervical cancer and offers rooftop solar installations in one crore households.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate a `400-crore permanent campus of IIM Sambalpur, power projects worth `28,978 crore and National Highway projects built at a cost `2,045 crore during his one-day visit to Odisha February

 Odisha has recorded the second highest ever collection of Gross GST with a collection of `4,963.16 crore during January, 2024 against corresponding collection of `4,255.59 crore recorded during January, 2023 registering a growth rate of 16.63%.

Odisha government has urged all Odias living across the world to sing the state song ‘Bande Utkal Janani’ at 11.30am February 3, when the state will hold the first World Odia Language Conference in the Capital city.

The Supreme Court has granted interim protection from arrest to the Leader of Opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly and BJP leader Jaynarayan Mishra in a case of allegedly assaulting a woman police officer after accusing her of taking bribe.

Prayers were performed in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque here Wednesday night following court orders allowing the resumption of a practice said to have been discontinued three decades back, Kashi Vishwanath temple trust president said.

The Uttarakhand government-appointed panel to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will submit the document to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami here Friday.

 Construction work at the Silkyara tunnel suspended since its partial collapse in November which left 41 labourers trapped in it for more than a fortnight has resumed after more than two months.

Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh Thursday moved a Delhi court seeking interim bail in a money laundering case related to alleged excise scam to take oath as a member of Rajya Sabha and attend the ongoing Parliament session

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches at the offices of leading Chennai-based cement manufacturer India Cements Ltd. As part of a foreign exchange violation investigation, official sources said Thursday.

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal is unlikely to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy, sources in the party said.

The US Thursday approved the sale of 31 MQ-9B armed drones to India at an estimated cost of USD 3.99 billion. The proposed mega drone deal was announced during the historic State Visit of PM Modi here in June 2023.

The Union government will provide `75,000 crore as interest-free loan for 50 years to support reforms by states for realising the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat’. The government has set a vision to make India a developed nation by 2047.

An under-pressure and under-resourced India will need to think out of the box to counter England’s fearless bunch of ‘Bazballers’ in the second Test beginning here Friday.