The Odisha government Tuesday decided to organise a World Odia Language Conference in February next year to further strengthen, spread and popularise the language in the state and outside.

A day after 78 suspensions in both the Houses, Lok Sabha Tuesday suspended 49 more Opposition MPs for unruly behaviour, including Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka, as the turmoil continued in the Parliament over the security breach in Lok Sabha December 13. The INDIA bloc’s strength has reduced to almost one third in the Lok Sabha

The Odisha government Tuesday claimed that the dropout rate in Class X was 27 per cent in the state in 2021-22 and not 49.9 per cent as stated by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the Lok Sabha a day before.

A nine-year-old girl was allegedly abducted, raped and then murdered by her 52-year-old landlord, who dumped her body in a canal in outer Delhi's Swaroop Nagar, police said, Tuesday.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday proposed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's name as the opposition INDIA bloc's PM candidate, saying he could be the ‘first Dalit prime minister’ of the country, but no decision was taken on it.

Cold wave continues to sweep Odisha with 11 places in the state recording minimum temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Tuesday.

INDIA bloc leaders Tuesday sought the intervention of President Droupadi Murmu over the suspension of 141 opposition MPs from Parliament.

Governor Raghubar Das has drawn the attention of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to certain issues faced by the people of Angul and Dhenkanal districts

The Orissa Botanical Society (OBS) conferred Prof Gadadhara Mishra Memorial Plant Physiology Award 2023 on Debabrata Panda of Central University of Odisha (CUO) at the 46th annual conference of OBS organised on the premises of Dhenkanal Auonomous College, Monday.

The Orissa Botanical Society (OBS) conferred Prof Gadadhara Mishra Memorial Plant Physiology Award 2023 on Debabrata Panda of Central University of Odisha (CUO) at the 46th annual conference of OBS organised on the premises of Dhenkanal Auonomous College, Monday.

The Calcutta High Court Tuesday refused to grant a prayer by BJP MP Dilip Ghosh and another person for change of date of a Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) in West Bengal since it coincides with the December 24 Bhagavad Gita chant programme, scheduled to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday conducted raids at the West Bengal Forest Department office. Minister Jyotipriya Mallick has already been arrested by the ED in October this year for his alleged involvement in the case.

Senior BJP MLA and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh was Tuesday unanimously elected as the Speaker of Chhattisgarh Assembly. The first session of the newly-elected Assembly began Tuesday

Suspended from Parliament, opposition leaders Tuesday staged protests on the stairs of the building with Trinamool Congress leader Kalyan Banerjee breaking into an impromptu skit mocking Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Rahul Gandhi making a video of the performance, sparking a political controversy

The Gujarat High Court Tuesday rejected the bail application of Oreva Group CMD Jaysukh Patel, the main accused in the October 2022 Morbi suspension bridge collapse that killed 135 persons.