The Reserve Bank of India keeps the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent for the seventh time in a row .

Ukraine carries out drone attack against targets in southern Russia, and claims to have destroyed six Russian planes at an airbase in Rostov region.

Intense heatwave conditions continued to prevail across Odisha with the mercury shooting up to 43.5 degrees Celsius at Bhubaneswar Friday.

The Supreme Court Friday stayed an order of the Allahabad High Court that scrapped the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 calling it ‘unconstitutional’ and violative of the principle of secularism.

Dropping references to the demolition of Babri Masjid and killing of Muslims in Gujarat riots are among the latest revisions made public by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in its textbooks.

The world’s oldest living man, 111-year-old Briton John Tinniswood, said his longevity was ‘just luck’ and there was no special secret to his diet - although his favourite food was fish and chips every Friday.

A tattoo on the palm of a miscreant, who along with three of his associates had robbed two businessmen of `11 lakh and valuables in Shastri Nagar area here last month, helped the Commissionerate Police crack the case, Friday

Emphasising the crucial role played by the maritime sector in the country’s economic growth and development, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on the National Maritime Day (NMD), Friday reiterated his government’s resolve to make Odisha a major power in the growth of the sector.

Prostate Cancer (PC) cases worldwide are projected more than double and deaths are expected to increase by 85 per cent between 2020 and 2040, with Low- and MiddleIncome Countries (LMICs) likely to bear the ‘overwhelming brunt’ of this spike, according to the Lancet Commission on PC

The Gahirmatha beach in Kendrapara district was bustling Friday as the Olive Ridley turtles returned for the muchawaited annual mass nesting which has commenced at Nasi2 island since Tuesday evening.

Vedanta Aluminium has expanded the capacity of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district from 2 MTPA to 3.5 MTPA

For the first time in its over four decades of existence, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) finds itself without any representation in the Rajya Sabha as its lone member, K Ravindra Kumar retired Wednesday.

AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj has said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita is the best person to keep the party together in the prevailing circumstances and asserted that her presence has had a “positive effect” on the cadre.

 Ninetytwo-year-old differently-abled Khalil Ansari of Rajmahal parliamentary constituency in Jharkhand will exercise his right to cast vote for the first time in his life in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The Election Commission (EC) Friday said it has identified 266 parliamentary constituencies, including 215 in rural areas, with low voter turnout and is planning targeted intervention to enhance voting percentage in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

In a relief to academic-activist Shoma Kanti Sen, arrested in June 2018 in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, the Supreme Court Friday granted her bail .

 India’s foreign exchange reserves increased $2.951 billion to $645.583 billion for the week ended March 29, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said Friday.

An Indian student has died in the US state of Ohio, the Indian Consulate in New York said on Friday, adding that an investigation is underway to ascertain the cause of death.

In Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, a young tribal doctor named Prakash Kumar Gota, who lost three family members to Maoist violence, has decided to contest the upcoming elections as an independent candidate.

Struggling Royal Challengers Bengaluru and high-flying Rajasthan Royals bizarrely have similar worries to address when they face each other in the IPL here Saturday.