- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday she will resign next month."For me it's time," she said at a meeting of members of her Labour Party. "I just don't have enough in the tank for another four years."
- The Delhi Police has busted a gang, arresting four cheats who duped more than 1,800 people on the pretext of offering them life certificate for pensioners, officials said on Wednesday.
- Eighteen people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children, were killed in a helicopter crash near a kindergarten outside Kyiv, Wednesday.
- The iconic Dakota aircraft used by aviator and legendary leader Biju Patnaik several decades ago was brought from Kolkata to Bhubaneswar, where Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik offered floral tribute to the plane which carried memories of his father.
- Assembly polls will be held in Tripura February 16, followed by Nagaland and Meghalaya February 27, with the counting of votes scheduled for March 2, the Election Commission (EC) announced Wednesday.
- Bypoll to the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha seat, which was vacated following the disqualification of NCP’s Mohammed Faizal after his conviction in a criminal case, will be held February 27, along with byelections to six Assembly seats in five states. While two bypolls will take place in Maharashtra, one bypoll each will be held in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. The votes will be counted March 2.
- The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Wednesday announced results of the Class X Summative Assessment (SA)-I (HSC and Madhyama) 2022- 23 and State Open School Certificate (SOSC) Examination 2022 (second), an official said.
- Five persons were arrested on the charge of black marketing tickets for Men’s Hockey World Cup (WC) matches being held in the Capital city, an official said Wednesday.
- The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has proposed during a meeting convened by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on remote voting machines that the state election commissions should demonstrate the Remote Electronic Voting Machines (REVMs) to clear doubts among the opposition parties.
- In the International Food Festival, one of the key events organised under .FEST to keep the mood of the Capital city lively during the Men’s Hockey World Cup, the stall that has been catching everyone’s attention is Michaels Kitchen. It serves exquisite Indian delicacies made from millets.
- The state received the SKOCH AWARD (Silver) in the health category on Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN) distribution through Multi Sectoral approach in tribal areas of Odisha. The award was given at the National Workshop of Ayushman Bharat School Health and Wellness programme by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- Continuing its waste to wealth initiative, the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Berhampur created a statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose using only scraps ahead of his birth anniversary.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday agreed to examine a plea of the Andhra Pradesh government against the recent order of the high court suspending the government’s order which prohibited conduct of public meetings and rallies on roads, including national highways.
- Fifty aircraft will take part in the 74th Republic Day celebrations at the Kartavya Path that will include aerial display by nine Rafale and the Navy’s IL-38 which will be showcased at the event for the first and perhaps the last time, a senior IAF official said. IL-38 is a maritime.
- A tribal organisation Tuesday launched the country-wide ‘Marang Buru Bachao Bharat Yatra’ (Save Parasnath Hill) to free it from the alleged clutches of the Jain community.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday permitted the central government to file additional submissions seeking reference of the Delhi-Centre power dispute to a larger bench of nine judges on the ground that the “contours of federalism” between the Union and union territory (UT) required a re-look.
- A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday.
- Richest Indian Gautam Adani-led group’s flagship firm Wednesday filed an offer letter with stock exchanges for a proposed `20,000 crore follow-on public offer (FPO).
- ASSOCHAM, a premier industry body of the country, has organised a national conclave on HR leadership and Award 2023 in Bhubaneswar January 18. Industry captains, CHROs, HR professionals, consultants, scholars, and industry professionals attended this meet in a large number.
- An unbeaten India will seek to address their penalty-corner woes to post a big win against bottom-placed debutants Wales in their final pool match and qualify directly for the quarterfinals of the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup here Thursday.
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