Farmers from Punjab clashed with Haryana Police at two border points between the states Tuesday facing tear gas and water cannons as they tried to break past barricades blocking their protest march to the national capital.

 The state government has decided to provide scholarships to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students under Nua-O, 5T and Nabin Odisha Chairman Kartik Pandian said, Tuesday.

The Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) Tuesday issued an order reducing the power tariff for domestic consumers by 10 paise in each slab for the 2024-25 financial year.

In what would bring cheers to expecting and lactating mothers, the state government Tuesday doubled the financial assistance to them under ‘Mamata’ to `10,000.

 Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination from Rajasthan for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls.

Twenty three candidates have bagged the perfect 100 score in the engineering entrance exam, JEEMain 2024, with a maximum of them being from Telangana, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced. Over 11.70 lakh candidates had appeared for the first edition of the crucial exam.

A POCSO court in Ganjam district sentenced a man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old girl about three years ago.

Former BJD Cuttack-Barabati MLA Debashish Samantaray and BJD youth wing leader from Puri Subhasish Kuntia Tuesday filed their nomination papers as BJD candidates for the February 27 Rajya Sabha elections in Odisha.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday handed over ‘Chief Minister’s awards for excellence in healthcare services’. As many as 153 awards were given to individual healthcare professionals and institutions in six categories in phase 1 of the award ceremony.

Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY), a flagship scheme of the Odisha government, has been conferred with National SKOCH (Gold) award for 2023.

A whopping 22-crore middle-aged people (or 16.2 per cent of the population) in the age group of 45-59 in India are affected by frailty, according to a global study. Frailty refers to a state of weakness in the human body that makes people prone to diseases, injuries and falls.

More than 3,700 children had gone missing in Assam in the last three years, with over 3,400 of them also rescued by different agencies, Women and Child Development Minister Ajanta Neog said in the state Assembly Tuesday.

Outgoing MP Jaya Bachchan, former chief secretary Alok Ranjan and former MP Ramji Lal Suman, Tuesday, have been named as Samajwadi Party candidates for the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.

The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has asked the state police’s Special Task Force to investigate the allegations of a question paper leak in the preliminary recruitment examination for review officers and assistant review officers (ROs/AROs).

Having lost control over the party he founded, veteran politician Sharad Pawar has moved the Supreme Court against the Election Commission order recognising the faction led by his estranged nephew Ajit Pawar as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya Tuesday resigned as the party’s national general secretary accusing the leadership of discriminating against him and not defending him over his remarks.

In a relief to RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, the Supreme Court Tuesday quashed the defamation complaint against him over the “Gujarati thugs” remark after he withdrew it unconditionally.

The Senate early Tuesday passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, pushing ahead after months of difficult negotiations and amid growing political divisions in the Republican Party over the role of the United States abroad.

Tata Motors Tuesday said its electric vehicle arm has reduced prices of two models -- Nexon.Ev and Tiago.Ev -- by up to `1.2 lakh on account of reduction in battery cost.

The Supreme Court will commence hearing Wednesday on a plea of the Vedanta group against the closure of its Sterlite copper unit in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin