- The Odisha government received Wednesday investment intents of over `26,000 crore during the Odisha Business Meet, 2023 at Tokyo.
- In a bid to ensure effective monitoring and review of programmes, and delivery of critical public services in Odisha , Development Commissioner (DC) Anu Garg has asked all secretaries and senior officials to ensure extensive field visits and night stays in rural and remote areas of the state during the third week of every month
- A special POCSO court and Court of the Additional District and Sessions judge sentenced a retired headmaster Debanand Patel, 62, of Raidihi Upper Primary school School under Lephripada block in this district to 10 years in jail for raping and sexually abusing 11 girl students in 2015.
- The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) registered landslide victories Wednesday in the elections to Attabira and Hindol Notified Area Councils (NACs). While polling was held April 3 in the two NACs, the results were declared .
- The state Vigilance Wednesday claimed to recovered bank, insurance deposits and investments in mutual funds worth over `1.04 crore and 1.135 kg gold from the possession of a CT&GST officer at the enforcement unit in Paradip of Jagatsinghpur district.
- Despite finding a place in the list of classical languages in India, the Centre has not spent anything for popularising Odia. On the other hand, over `640 crore has been spent for increasing the popularity and spread of Sanskrit.
- The NCERT has dropped from its Class-XII history textbook certain portions on Mahatma Gandhi and how his pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity ‘provoked Hindu extremists’, and on a ‘ban on the RSS’. The move triggered a row, with the Congress accusing the Centre of ‘whitewashing’ and ‘distorting’ history.
- The Supreme Court quashed Wednesday the Centre’s telecast ban on Malayalam news channel ‘MediaOne’, and pulled up the Ministry of Home Affairs for raising national security claims from ‘thin air’ without facts.
- Indian-origin Anu Aiyengar from JP Morgan, Ariel Investment’s Rupal J Bhansali, Sonal Desai of Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs’ Meena Flynn and Savita Subramanian from Bank of America are among the 100 women who were named in the fourth annual version of the prestigious list, Barron’s is a sister publication of the Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones and Company.
- Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has passed an order directing the special secretary to government, Home Department of Odisha to make an enquiry into a petition claiming illegalities and irregularities committed at the Biju Patnaik Open Air Ashram Jail at Jamujhari in Khurda.
- Central Armed Police Forces have been deployed in West Bengal to assist the state police during Hanuman Jayanti, announced the Union home ministry, which on Wednesday also asked all states to ensure law and order during the festival in the wake of communal violence in Bengal and Bihar during Ram Navami. Hanuman Jayanti will be observed Thursday
- The Union government has sanctioned Z+ category VIP security cover to Jammu and Kashmir politician and Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari, sources said Wednesday.
- A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to deploy central armed forces on the auspicious occasion of Hanuman Jayanti April 6 to avoid repetition of violence witnessed during Ram Navami processions.
- The government has no plan to use Aadhaar data for census, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Lok Sabha Wednesday.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to entertain a plea by 14 political parties led by the Congress alleging arbitrary use of central probe agencies against opposition leaders, asserting that laying down guidelines without facts of a criminal case will be “dangerous”
- India has been elected to the highest statistical body of the United Nations for a four-year term beginning January 1 next year.
- The US has recognised Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India and strongly opposes any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims by renaming localities, the White House has said.
- The growth in world trade is expected to grow by a meagre 1.7 per cent in 2023 due to global uncertainties, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said Wednesday. The 1.7 per cent forecast is up from the previous estimate of 1 per cent last October.
- The Nagaland government's decision to indefinitely cancel the election to 36 town councils and three municipal councils, due on May 16, was put on hold by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
- Hit by injuries and unavailability of key players, two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders will seek home comfort and look to return to winning ways when they face a star-studded Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, here Thursday.
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