About 82 per cent of the total income from ‘unknown sources’ declared by national political parties in 2022- 23 came from electoral bonds, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)

In what would bring cheers to 49,522 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in Odisha, the state government hiked their monthly remuneration from Rs 4,500 to Rs 7,000, Thursday.

The Centre Thursday hiked Dearness Allowance (DA) to 50 per cent of basic pay from the existing rate of 46 per cent effective from January 1 this year, benefitting over one crore employees and pensioners ahead of general elections.

 Last month was the warmest February on record globally, the ninth straight month of historic high temperatures across the planet as climate change steers the world into ‘uncharted territory’, Europe’s climate monitor said Thursday.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday approved as many as 602 projects in Sambalpur and Deogarh districts.

The Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted searches at the premises of Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki and his family members in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, as part of a money laundering investigation, official sources said

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s political opponent and BJP leader Bijoy Mohapatra’s son Arabinda Mohapatra Thursday joined the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD).

Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu arrived here Thursday and may meet senior BJP leaders amid a buzz that the two parties are likely to revive their alliance for Lok Sabha and assembly polls, which will be held simultaneously in Andhra Pradesh.

The Cabinet approves India AI mission with an outlay of `10,372 crore for five years, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said Thursday. The approved corpus will be used to to create a large computing infrastructure.

 The Central Bureau of Investigation Thursday busted a major human trafficking network that took Indian youngsters to the Russia-Ukraine war zone in the garb of providing them jobs abroad, officials said.

Ahead of general elections, the government Thursday announced the extension of `300 per LPG cylinder subsidy to poor women under the Ujjwala Yojana for the next fiscal starting April 1. The government had in October last year hiked the subsidy from `200 per 14.2-kg cylinders for up to 12 refills per year to `300 per bottle.

The CBI has conducted searches at 67 locations in seven cities of Rajasthan and Maharashtra in connection with the `820-crore Immediate Payment System (IMPS) scam in UCO bank, officials said Thursday.

Sweden Thursday formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality as concerns about Russian aggression in Europe have spiked following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Tata Motors Thursday said it will increase prices of its commercial vehicles by up to 2 per cent from April 1, 2024. The price increase is to offset the residual impact of the past input costs, the auto major said. This is the second increase in CV prices in 2024 announced by Tata Motors.

The fragility of England batters against high-quality spin was exposed once again before India showed them how to bat on a flat track by cruising to 135/1 at stumps on day one of the fifth and final Test here Thursday