In a horrific incident, at least 11 persons were killed and nearly 200 others injured in a powerful explosion and subsequent blaze at a firecrackers factory near Harda town of Madhya Pradesh.

The Special Children’s Court here Tuesday handed down 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a minor after convicting him in the sensational rape and murder case of 5-year-old girl Pari in this district in 2020.

The Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed two Bills which seek to modify the list of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

Ajit Pawar faction is the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Election Commission (EC) announced Tuesday, ending months of speculation over the factional fight with his party founder and uncle Sharad Pawar.

All four Kalinga Literary Awards for the year 2024 have gone to women writers, informed Rashmi Ranjan Parida, founder and director, Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF). Hindi novelist Nasira Sharma and former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations, diplomat, writer, novelist, Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, will be conferred Kalinga Literary Awards.

A whopping 98,348 posts are lying vacant across various departments of the state government as of January 31, Skill Development and Technical Education (SD&TE) Minister Pritiranjan Gharai told the Assembly, Tuesday.

Chief Minister Tuesday approved a proposal to include four lakh more beneficiaries under the state government’s social security scheme, Madhu Babu Pension Yojana (MBPY).

The Special Children’s Court here Tuesday handed down 20-years of rigorous imprisonment to a minor after convicting him in the sensational rape and murder case of five-year old girl Pari in this district. The judge of the Children’s-cum-Additional District and Sessions Court, Lily Senapati also slapped a penalty of `6,000 on the convict, apart from the punishment.

The Delhi government is planning to offer free travel to people belonging to the third gender in DTC and cluster buses, officials said Monday.

The Uttarakhand government Tuesday tabled in the Assembly the Uniform Civil Code bill, the first such move in any state after Independence that could be followed by similar legislation in other BJP-run states.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday carried out simultaneous searches at multiple places in West Bengal, including residences of some state officers, in connection with its investigation into alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds, officials said.

India has decided to fence the entire 1,643- km-long India-Myanmar border, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced Tuesday.

The caretaker government in Pakistan will consider shutting down the internet connections on the polling day Thursday only if there is a request from a district or a province, interim Interior Minister Dr Gohar Ejaz said Tuesday.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has approved HDFC Bank’s proposal to acquire an up to 9.5 per cent stake in IndusInd Bank.

Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded nearly 1 per cent Tuesday following buying in IT giants TCS and Infosys, foreign fund inflows and positive global trends.