A golden chapter was added to the Srimandir history Wednesday when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the `800-crore heritage corridor project, mooted in 2019, to provide unobstructed and expansive pathways around the 12th century shrine, enabling devotees to experience a seamless perambulation of the temple.

Teenaged Indian chess superstar R Praggnanandhaa defeated world champion Ding Liren of China in the fourth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament here, a win which also helped him surpass the legendary Viswanathan Anand as the top-rated Indian player.

Former Odisha Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang Wednesday joined the Congress along with his wife and son almost nine years after he quit the party. “Congress is the only party in the country that does principled politics,” said the former nine-time MP from Koraput.

Two persons, including a woman, were arrested in Balasore district after brown sugar worth around `80,000 was seized from their possession, police said.

A prolonged dry spell is sweeping across Kashmir during the harshest phase of winter, leaving many people sick and farmers worried about impending water shortages.

The death toll in the gunfight between state security forces and militants at Moreh in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district rose to two after another security personnel was shot dead Wednesday evening, officials said.

Former Haryana chief minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda was Wednesday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, official sources said.

India has topped a global indoor air pollution chart with the highest average annual PM2.5 levels followed by China, Turkey, UAE and South Korea, according to a study.

The government has disbursed Rs 4,415 crore under Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes for eight sectors, including electronics and pharma, till October this fiscal, an official said Wednesday.

Billionaire Gautam Adani’s apples-to-airport conglomerate will invest Rs 62,400 crore in the next 10 years in setting up data centres in Maharashtra and Telangana to provide infrastructure for the booming digital services demand in the country.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has replied to the Enforcement Directorate, asking why summonses were issued to him if he was not an accused in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, the AAP said today.

The Punjab government suffered a major setback in the Supreme Court on Wednesday after its plea to cancel Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's bail - in a criminal intimidation case - was rejected.

Veteran Congress leader Sushilkumar Shinde has claimed that he and his daughter MLA Praniti Shinde got an offer to join the BJP, but maintained that he is a Congress loyalist and will not quit the party.

Forty-two per cent of children in the age group of 14 to 18 years in rural India cannot read easy sentences in English, while more than half of them struggle with simple division problems, according a report.

Adani Enterprises, a subsidiary of the Adani Group, will invest ₹ 50,000 crore to set up 1 GW hyperscale data centres in Maharashtra over the next 10 years, the company said on Wednesday.