- 1.The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to distribute cycles procured under ‘Mo Cycle’ initiative, which are languishing in wrecks.The civic body is preparing a SOP based on which the exercise will be carried out, commissioner said. Bicycles will be distributed to the general public, students, he added.
- 2. Adani Power Ltd’s `7,017-crore deal to buy thermal power assets of DB Power has failed after the initial pact expired.
- 3. Indian football great & Asian Games gold medallist Tulsidas Balaram breathes his last after prolonged illness.
- 4. The Income Tax department’s marathon ‘surveys’ at BBC's offices ended Thursday, after clocking over 58 hours in total, as officials prepared an inventory of financial data from select staffers and collected digital and paper data.
- 5. Agriculture & Farmers Empowerment department principal secretary Arabinda Padhee announced that 1,000 additional cold storage facilities will come up in the state soon. Each storage facility will have a capacity of 10-15 metric tonne and will be spread across all the 30 districts of Odisha and the facilities will be powered by solar energy.
- 6. The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has allocated Rs 937 crore to Odisha for widening and construction of several National Highways crossing the state for the financial year 2023-24.
- 7. As many as 20 short stories by doyen of Odia literature Gopinath Mohanty have been translated into English in a new book, titled “Oblivion and Other Stories”. Originally written in Odia, the anthology, translated by Sudeshna Mohanty and Sudhansu Mohanty, includes short stories – ‘Da’, ‘Oblivion’, ‘The Upper Crust’, ‘Lustre’ and ‘Festival Day’ – written over the course of five decades (1935–1988).
- 8. The objective of setting up Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) seems to be failing down as just two out of 3137 trainees passed in the year 2020 in Odisha got placement, reveals a study by the NITI Aayog
- 9. Tripura recorded over 81 per cent polling till 4 pm in the one-day election to the 60-member Tripura Assembly Thursday, a senior EC official said.
- 10. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday directed the South district administration to provide families affected by the recent DDA demolition drive in Mehrauli with tents, food and other basic amenities, officials said. This comes two days after Lt Governor V K Saxena directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to stop demolitions in Mehrauli and Ladha Sarai villages till further instructions.
- 11. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar in a fresh money laundering case linked to duping former Religare promoter Malvinder Singh's wife by posing as Union home and law secretaries.
- 12. Tata Groupowned Air India has placed an order for 840 planes with Airbus and Boeing, including the option to acquire 370 aircraft, with a senior airline official Thursday saying the order is a “landmark moment” in the Indian aviation history.
- 13. YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki will be stepping down after nine years at the helm of the world’s largest online video platform, she said in a blog post Thursday. YouTube’s chief product officer, Neal Mohan, will be the new head of YouTube, she said. Wojcicki, who was previously a senior vice president for ad products at Google, became CEO of YouTube in 2014.
- 14. At least three forest department officials working in the Similipal Tiger Reserve were Thursday arrested for allegedly killing an eyewitness of elephant poaching in December, police said.
- 15. Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar has been appointed as the new Vice Chief of Army Staff, while incumbent Lt Gen B S Raju will take charge as South Western Army Commander.
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