One hundred and twenty six candidates in fray for the third phase of Assembly elections in the state are ‘crorepatis’. BJD candidate from Champua Sanatan Mahakud is the richest with `227.67 crore assets.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) will deploy 102 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) for the second phase of simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state May 20, an official said Saturday.

Curtains came down Saturday on the high-decibel campaigning for the second phase polls in the state wherein over 79.69 lakh voters will decide the fate of 305 candidates in fray for five Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly seats May 20.

 A lowpressure area is likely to form over the southwest Bay of Bengal (BoB) around May 22 which will move initially northeastwards and concentrate into a depression over central parts of the BoB May 24, IMD said.

Acting on a tip off, Flying Squad Team (FST) seized an amount worth ` 8 lakh near Sunadei mundia area in Banki, Cuttack Saturday.

A unit of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Regional Science Centre organised a Summer Hobby Camp for students from Class I to Class XII here recently. The camp started May 6 will continue till June 7.

More than 50 lakh large farmland trees vanished between 2018 and 2022 in India, partly due to altered cultivation practices, revealing a ‘concerning trajectory’, new research published in the journal Nature Sustainability has found.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested Saturday in connection with the alleged assault on AAP MP Swati Maliwal, even as the party claimed she was ‘blackmailed’ by the BJP as she faces a corruption case.

Nine people, including five women and a 12-year-old girl, were burnt alive and 17 injured when a moving tourist bus caught fire near Dhulawat village in Haryana’s Nuh district in the early hours Saturday, police said.

The Election Commission Saturday issued two separate show-cause notices to West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar for “misleading” advertisements targeting the state’s ruling TMC.

The extreme heat scorching large parts of northwest India will continue for another five days, with Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh predicted to bear the maximum impact.

Norway’s central bank has excluded Adani Group’s port firm, APSEZ from its government pension fund over ethical concerns, making it the 15th Indian company to face such action with previous ones being the likes of ONGC, GAIL, NTPC and Vedanta.

Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad will be aiming for second spot in the 10-team standing in their final league matches of IPL, Sunday.

The majority of the Indian players along with the jumbo support staff will be flying out to New York May 25, with the rest leaving for the T20 World Cup (World T20/WT20) only after the May 26 IPL final.

Raghunandan Kamath, the founder of Natural Ice Cream, has died, his company said in an online post. He was 75 and died Friday night after a brief illness.

A special court for MPs and MLAs in Bengaluru has issued an arrest warrant against JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna in the sexual assault case.

Food regulator FSSAI has asked traders and food business operators not to use the banned product 'calcium carbide' for ripening of fruits.

A delegation comprising several foreign diplomats, including Singapore High Commissioner to India Simon Wong and Nepal's Ambassador to India Shankar P Sharma, attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public meeting in North East Delhi .

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday said that election-time seizures have reached ₹ 8,889 crore, with drugs comprising 45 per cent of the total.

The head of polling in Mumbai scheduled for May 20 in phase 5, Industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata urged all the Mumbaikars to go out and vote responsibly.