Three members of a family died while two others were injured after their car allegedly lost control and crashed into a culvert, police said on Thursday.

A 30-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly killed in Odisha's Sambalpur district following an altercation over a bidi, police said on Thursday.

Ganesh Uike, 69, a battle-hardened Maoist leader, finally fell to the bullets of security personnel in Kandhamal district on Thursday, less than a year after taking charge of Odisha operations, officials said.

Imtiaz Iqbal did not come from privilege, elite schools, or an English-medium background. He grew up in Hejamadi, studied in Kannada-medium government schools, and moved through life one step at a time, learning as he went. Today, he works as a senior technology leader in the United States, after spending decades across academia, banking, manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace, and global corporate roles.

The Atal Canteens, inaugurated on Thursday to mark the 101st birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will offer nutritious meals for just Rs 5.

The Railway Protection Force on Thursday booked two youngsters for briefly stopping a long-distance train in this district after they flashed a red light to shoot social media reels.

The village elders in Rajasthan's Jalore district have withdrawn the ban imposed on women using smartphones after the decision faced opposition in several places.

A 26-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide nearly a month after her wedding here, with her husband and his family facing murder and dowry harassment charges, police said on Thursday.