On the second day of farmers’ protest 2.0 seeking legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) and other demands, thousands of farmers from Punjab stayed put at Shambhu border between Haryana and Punjab, and vowed not to go back and decided to march towards the national capital.

In a repeat of 2019 Rajya Sabha elections, the ruling BJD Wednesday announced its support to opposition BJP’s Ashwini Vaishnaw in the biennial polls.

The CM also announced a hike in financial assistance provided to different kinds of needy artistes under Mukhyamantri Kalakar Sahayata Yojana (MKSY). The monthly financial aid for MKSY beneficiaries up to 80 the age of years has been increased to `2,000 from `1,200.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stones for two green fuel projects worth `35,000 crore at Gopalpur Industrial Park Wednesday that are expected to create 5,500 job opportunities.

The second phase of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Jharkhand, which was scheduled to commence Wednesday, has been cancelled, Congress leaders said. The march will resume from Bihar’s Aurangabad Thursday as was planned earlier.

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday filed her nomination papers from Rajasthan for Rajya Sabha polls while the BJP renominated its chief J P Nadda and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan, besides fielding new-entrant in the party and ex-chief minister Ashok Chavan.

The Enforcement Directorate has issued the sixth summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning him in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said Wednesday.

The Pakistan Rangers violated the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan Wednesday by resorting to unprovoked firing at a BSF post along the International Border (IB) in the R S Pura sector here, officials said.

The US House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with the Republican majority determined to punish the Biden administration over its handling of the US-Mexico border.

Ukraine destroyed a Russian landing warship off the coast of occupied Crimea in an operation with naval drones that breached the vessel’s port side Wednesday and caused it to sink, Kyiv’s military spy agency and armed forces said.

An Indianorigin family, including their 4- year-old twin boys, has been found dead at their home in California with the police investigating the case as a murdersuicide, in the latest in a string of tragedies to strike the community in the US.

The value of FPIs (Foreign Portfolio Investors) holding in Indian equities reached $738 billion in the three months ended December 2023, marking a surge of 13 per cent from the preceding quarter, driven by the strong performance of the domestic stock market, according to a report by Morningstar.

Ghulam Nabi Azad told that the exit of former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan from the party, is a big blow for the Congress.

The BJP has declared donations of nearly ₹ 720 crore in 2022-23, which was more than five times the aggregate amount received by four other national parties -- the Congress, AAP, CPI-M, and National People's Party.

Forty-three years after bandit Phoolan Devi and her gang perpetrated the Behmai massacre in which 20 people, mostly from the Thakur community, were shot dead to "avenge" her rape, a court here on Wednesday gave a life sentence to one.