The Union government will introduce new technologies, including GPSbased toll collection systems, by March next year to replace existing highway toll plazas, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Wednesday.

Amid suspension of 143 Opposition members following protests over the recent security breach in Parliament, three crucial Bills - Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023 and the Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Bill, 2023 - that will replace Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) of 1973 and Indian Evidence Act, of 1872 were passed in Lok Sabha Wednesday.

As many as 21 cases of Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been detected across the country till now, NITI Aayog member (Health) VK Paul said Wednesday but asserted that there was no need to panic.

Cold wave continues to sweep Odisha, with 14 places in the state recording minimum temperatures at or below 10 degrees Celsius

The state government Wednesday said the state hasn’t reported any Covid case over the past week, amid an uptick in infections in various parts of the country.

Eminent Odia poet Ashutosh Parida is among the 24 recipients of Sahitya Akademi Awards 2023, the organisation announced, Wednesday

Kalahandi district, once infamous for starvation deaths and child sale, is experiencing a turnaround in its fortune through fish cultivation.

Paradip Port has proved its efficiency and achieved yet another 100 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of cargo handling in the shortest time in its history.

The controversy over a TMC MP mimicking Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar took political centrestage Wednesday with the issue playing out both inside and outside Parliament and President Droupadi Murmu joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi in expressing dismay.

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav and his father and RJD chief Lalu Prasad for questioning in the railways land-for-jobs money laundering case probe, official sources said Wednesday.

The European Union reached agreement early Wednesday on new rules designed to share out the cost and work of hosting migrants more evenly and to limit the numbers of people coming in.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday the military had proposed mobilising 450,000-500,000 more Ukrainians into the armed forces in what would mark a dramatic step up of Kyiv’s war with Russia.

The government will approach the Supreme Court again to get more funds from the Sahara Group, as three crore investors have sought a refund of `80,000 crore stuck with the company’s cooperative societies.

An army truck was ambushed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district today. This was the second terror attack on the army in the region in less than a month.

There are a total of 10 "black tigers" in India, all exclusively found in Odisha's Similipal, the government informed the Parliament on Thursday.