- 1. Gross direct tax collections grew 24 per cent to `15.67 lakh crore so far this fiscal, the finance ministry said Saturday. After adjusting for refunds, the net direct tax collection stood at `12.98 lakh crore, a growth of 18.40 per cent.
- 2. The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years.
- 3. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a penalty of `22.52 crore on a private firm engaged in National Highway-16 expansion project for illegally extracting minor minerals in Balasore district.
- 4. Two officials of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Sunabeda in this district were reportedly picked up by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials Saturday, on alleged charge of leaking classified data of the Centre-owned agency. It is suspected that they leaked the information after allegedly being honeytrapped.
- 5. Abdur Rehman of Cuttack, who was arrested in December 2015, was among the four operatives of Al-Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) who were convicted by a court here for conspiracy to commit terror acts across the country and recruiting members for the terror group.
- 6. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday approved a Community Health Centre (CHC) at Paikmal in Bargarh district, a statement said.
- 7. The two-day District Judges’ Conference was inaugurated in the Auditorium of Odisha Judicial Academy at Cuttack Saturday by Supreme Court Justice Sanjiv Khanna in the presence of Chief Justice of Orissa High Court S Muralidhar along with sitting and former Judges of the High Court.
- 8. Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav returned to the national capital on Saturday evening after undergoing a kidney transplant surgery in Singapore in December last year.
- 9. A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking to constitute a "Renaming Commission" to find out the original names of 'ancient historical cultural religious places'.
- 10. Ten new airports are being built in the state and the land survey work has started for two more, Jyotiraditya Scindia said, adding that Uttar Pradesh is going to have 21 airports in the coming days.
- 11. Claiming that the Meghalaya poll will be a "watershed election" for the Congress, Ramesh said 47 of its 60 candidates are "below the age of 45 and this has never happened before in any state".
- 12. Delhi's Power department has removed the Arvind Kejriwal government's four nominees, including AAP leader Jasmine Shah, from the boards of power discoms and replaced them with senior officials, on the directions of Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena.
- 13. In a relief to Karnataka Congress chief D.K. Shivakumar, the Karnataka High Court Friday issued a stay on the investigation against him in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case by the CBI.
- 14. With the vulture population in West Bengal decreasing at a very fast pace, the state Forest Department has undertaken an unique initiative to increase the population of these nature's scavengers to run vulture breeding centre at Rajabhatkhawa in Alipurduar district.
- 15. Tamil Nadu unit of the RSS will soon be providing three suitable dates to conduct route marches in the state after the Madras High Court directed the police to allow the organisation to hold the march.
- 16. A Delhi court judge, who recently discharged student activists Sharjeel Imam and Asif Iqbal Tanha along with nine others in the 2019 Jamia Nagar violence case, has recused himself from hearing a similar matter citing "personal reasons".
- 17. The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was reopened for stranded vehicles Saturday after remaining closed for three consecutive days owing to multiple landslides in Ramban district, officials said.
- 18. An I-T Department inspector from Uttar Pradesh committed suicide in Bengaluru by jumping in front of a moving train, police said Saturday.
- 19. Up to 5.3 million people in Syria may have been made homeless by the devastating earthquake which rocked the region this week, a United Nations official said Friday.
- 20. Direct-to-home firm DishTV India has reported a consolidated net loss of `2.85 crore in the third quarter that ended December 2022, mainly due to a decline in revenue and promotion of its OTT platform
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