President Droupadi Murmu conferred Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, on BJP stalwart and former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani at his residence.

Top leaders of the INDIA bloc Sunday exhorted the people to defeat the BJP to save democracy and the Constitution and alleged that the Opposition has been deprived of a level playing field in the Lok Sabha elections due to the government’s ‘dictatorial’ actions.

BJP MLA Sukanta Nayak of Nilagiri in Balasore district joined the ruling BJD Sunday.

The application deadline for Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG has been further extended till April 5, the National Testing Agency announced Sunday. The first deadline was March 26, which was initially extended to March 31.

The Cyber Crime Unit of Odisha Crime Branch busted a racket allegedly involved in misappropriation of money to the tune of more than `1.04 crore deposited in the ICICI Bank, Dhenkanal Branch during 2021-22, said a CB official Sunday.

Advocates Kundan Rath and Dipak Kumar Dash have been elected as president and  secretary, respec tively in the Bhubaneswar Bar Association election that was held Saturday.

Even before summer is yet to fully set in, the Rushikulya river which is known as the lifeline of Ganjam district, is drying up rapidly.

Over 1,000 probationary police officers, including 62 deputy superintendents of police, are undergoing a six-week long training at the Army’s counter-terror White Knight Corps battle school in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, officials said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday mocked the BJP-led NDA’s target of winning 400-plus seats in the Lok Sabha polls and challenged the saffron party to win at least 200 constituencies.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear April 1 a Gyanvapi mosque management committees plea against an Allahabad High Court decision upholding a lower court’s order allowing Hindu prayers in the southern cellar of the mosque.

Infosys is expecting a refund of `6,329 crore from the Income Tax Department, the country's second largest IT services company has said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader will undergo surgery Sunday for a hernia.

Fuelled by improved market sentiments and robust underlying demand, fundraising by issuing shares/units to institutional investors soared to `78,000 crore in 2023-24, a more than seven-fold surge year-on-year.

The Enforcement Directorate custody of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ends today and the central agency probing the alleged liquor policy scam is likely to produce him in court.

Ace Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna rewrote his own record to continue to be the oldest ATP Masters 1000 champion as he and his Australian partner Matt Ebden clinched the men’s doubles crown at the Miami Open here.