Odisha government awards habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 to Paudi Bhuyan community in Deogarh district.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday arrested BRS leader K Kavitha after a daylong raid on her premises in Hyderabad and took her to Delhi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, agency sources said

Neurological conditions such as e pile psy, Alzheimer's disease and dementia are now the leading cause of ill health and disability globally, affecting 4 billion people in 2021, according to a major new analysis published in The Lancet Neurology journal.

As many as 2,630 Agniveers, including 396 women, of the Indian Navy graduated from INS Chilka in a ceremonial Evening Passing out Parade Friday under the aegis of Southern Naval Command.

The government Friday approved an electric-vehicle policy, under which import duty concessions will be given to companies setting up manufacturing units in the country with a minimum investment of $500 million, a move aimed at attracting major global players like US-based Tesla.

He might be drawing comparisons with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel said Friday nobody can quite match up to the former India captain. Jurel asserted that he would rather focus on carving his own niche in international cricket.

Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Friday announced the sanction of two new railway line projects for Odisha.

The Special Vigilance Court here awarded a three-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to four persons, including former Odisha Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC) Managing Director (MD) Vinod Kumar, for corruption.

State government Friday decided to transfer the land of Bargarh Sugar factory to IDCO for setting up industries in future, an official at the Chief Minister's Office said.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu Thursday inaugurated the state’s first outdoor escalators at the hilltop Hanuman temple Jakhu in Shimla at a height of 2,455 metres above sea level

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will contest the Hyderabad and Nagarkurnool (SC) Lok Sabha seats, out of the total 17 constituencies in Telangana, as part of its alliance with the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has been booked under the POCSO Act based on a complaint by the mother of a 17- year-old girl, police said here.

The Congress Friday demanded a high-level probe by the Supreme Court against the ruling BJP and freezing of its bank accounts for alleged corruption in the electoral bonds scheme, as it claimed the party got 50 per cent of the money received through these bonds.

India Friday said its first team of military personnel that was operating an advanced light helicopter in the Maldives has returned from the island nation. The military team has been replaced by civilian technical experts.

The Supreme Court Friday refused to stay the appointments of new Election Commissioners (ECs) under a 2023 law that excluded the chief justice of India from the selection panel.

The first ship carrying food aid reached the coast of the Gaza Strip Friday, where hopes for a ceasefire to rescue the population from starvation suffered a new blow after Israel rejected the latest truce counterproposal from Hamas.

A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast Friday, killing at least 21 people, officials said.

The United States and allies warned Iran Friday that major Western economies will pile new sanctions on Tehran if it moves forward with an advancing plan to provide ballistic missiles to Russia for its war with Ukraine.

South African pacer Lungi Ngidi, who was signed by the Delhi Capitals, has been ruled out of IPL 2024 due to an injury, the franchise said in a release Friday. In place of Ngidi, the Delhi side have roped in Australian allrounder Jake Fraser-McGurk. The 21-year-old Australian is a hardhitting opener and leg-spinner from Melbourne.

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