Bhubaneswar,  Four-time MLA and former minister Jayanarayan Mishra will be the new Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Odisha Legislative Assembly, the BJP announced on Saturday.

The party's state co-in-charge Vijay Pal Singh has made the announcement here at a press conference.

Mishra will

Ahmedabad,  A court here on Saturday rejected the bail plea of activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat DGP R.B. Sreekumar.

Both were arrested by the Ahmedabad crime branch following the Supreme Court order, which had pointed out that they had misused judicial process and action should be taken agains

Ahmedabad,  A Range Forest Officer in Gujarat's Veraval has been arrested on charges of criminal intimidation and rape of a married woman, officials said on Sunday.

The victim, in her complaint, said she had approached RFO Haresh Galchar to seek bail for one of her relatives arrested under forest law

New Delhi,  Highlighting the Covid pandemic as an inflexion point for the country in all aspects, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said that "when world questioned the ability of India in dealing with the pandemic, our professionals rose to the occasion."

He said that all sta

Chandigarh,  Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday said the state government has adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards eradication of smuggling of psychotropic substances and drugs.

Addressing a conference on drug trafficking and national security held under the chairmanship of Uni

Thiruvananthapuram,  A local court here has accepted a petition seeking registration of a case against two topmost CPI-M leaders- LDF convenor E.P. Jayarajan and P.K. Sreemathi- for inciting violence and conspiracy.

Both Jayarajan and Sreemathi are former ministers and also central committee members of the CP

Guwahati, Tahang Gao -- the cousin brother of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Arunachal Pradesh Tapir Gao, who went missing on Friday has been rescued from a hotel here on Saturday, officials said.

He was later taken to Dispur police station here for questioning.

Tahang Gao came to Guwahat

Aizawl, The Assam Rifles have seized foreign cigarettes, valued at Rs 1.04 crore, in Mizoram after these were smuggled from Myanmar, officials said on Saturday.

Assam Rifles sources said that the paramilitary troopers, accompanied by Mizoram Police, seized the cigarette carton from an abandoned house at Dungtlang

Washington, A watch said to have belonged to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler sold for a whopping $1.1 million at an auction in the US despite apprehension by members of the Jewish community, a media report said.

The timepiece made by German watch firm Huber, which has a swastika and the initials AH engraved on it, was

Kiev,  Authorities in Ukraine have called on the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to probe an attack in an occupied territory in Donetsk which led to the deaths of at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs).

On Friday morning, Russian media outlets announced the shelling of a pri