Bhubaneswar,  The Odisha government on Thursday directed screening of people entering the state from 12 high-risk states to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection.

The states are Maharashtra, Kerala, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Punjab, Delhi, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil

New Delhi, In 1998, a father and his two sons were accused of a murder in Madhya Pradesh. Twenty threee years later, the Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the life imprisonment of one of the two sons, noting he was a juvenile when the offence was committed, and sent his case to the Juvenile Justice Board to determine the quant

Hyderabad, Telangana's Industry and Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao on Thursday reiterated his claim that the state government filled 1,32,899 posts in various departments during the last six years.

With the opposition parties disputing his claim, the minister released the number of vacancies fil

New Delhi, After the AAP-led Delhi government accused the Union Home Ministry of reducing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's security on Thursday, the Delhi Police denied the claim and said Z-plus security is maintained.

The office of Delhi Chief Minister had claimed that commandos Gagan Deep Yadav, Jitendra, Ji

Oklahoma, A man in the United States' Oklahoma has killed a woman neighbour and cut out her heart before cooking it with potatoes.

While obtaining a search warrant, an agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation told a judge that Lawrence Paul Anderson killed his neighbour, Andr

Seoul, South Korea has set the ball rolling for the nationwide Covid vaccination roll out as the first batch of about 1.5 million vaccine doses headed to the country, which is nearing 90,000 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in January last year.

The nationwide distribution of the AstraZeneca vaccine for so

Washington,  The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 112.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.49 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed tha

Colombo, Pakistan and Sri Lanka agreed to strengthen cooperation in several areas including agriculture.

The agreement came as visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan met here with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for bilateral ties, the Xinhua news agency reported.

During the meeti

Pyongyang, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has presided over a Central Military Commission meeting to discuss the discipline among the military officials and stricter control over the younger officers, state media reported on Thursday.

At the expanded military commission meeting of the ruling Workers' Party on

Kabul, Pakistan will not support the Taliban, but aims for enduring peace in Afghanistan, said a senior official of the Pakistan's army.

"Afghanistan now is not what it was in 90s and the state infrastructure cannot be trounced easily, and Pakistan also has changed," the Director General of Pakistan&