- Anant Mohapatra (Acting & Direction) and Kumkum Mohanty (Odissi Dance) to receive the Akademi's highest honour- Kabisamrat Upendra Bhanja Award for 2019 and 2020, respectively.
- Bihar police on Thursday got 1,605 sub-inspectors, including 596 women sub-inspectors, after they passed out of the police training academy at Rajgir in the presence of chief minister Nitish Kumar. This is the largest ever induction of officers in the state.
- A proposal to rename the Miyanganj village panchayat in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh as Mayaganj has been sent to the state government following a resolution passed by the rural body.
- Days after the Supreme Court directed that political parties have to publish information regarding criminal antecedents of candidates on the homepage of their websites, the Election Commission has written to heads of recognised political parties saying that it has created a fund in which fines for contempt of court can be deposited for failing to comply with the apex court's directions.
- President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday issued warrants appointing nine new judges to the Supreme Court, a day after the Prime Minister’s Office cleared the collegium’s recommendations.
- Each of the servitors of Puri Shree Jagannath temple will be given 600sqft of homestead land in the holy town and monetary assistance of Rs 2 lakh to construct their houses on the assigned plots.
- A delegation of Trinamul MPs met the top brass of the Election Commission of India in New Delhi on Thursday, urging it again to hold pending bypolls to seven Bengal’s Assembly seats now when the Covid-19 situation in the state is under control.
- The additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Ranaghat has issued an arrest warrant against Mukul Roy for failing to appear before it personally as it had directed in connection with the murder of Trinamul MLA Satyajit Biswas in 2019.
- Five judges were appointed at Calcutta High Court on Thursday, raising the total number to 35 against the sanctioned strength of 72. Even after the appointment of the five, the posts of 37 judges will remain vacant at the court.
- Five airports in Jharkhand, including the Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi, will soon be powered by solar energy, officials of Jharkhand Renewable Energy Development Agency (JREDA) said on Thursday, adding that the tender for this project has already been floated.
- Facebook has approached academics and policy experts about forming a commission to advise it on global election-related matters, said five people with knowledge of the discussions, a move that would allow the social network to shift some of its political decision-making to an advisory body.
- The decision to coat the Singhadwar of the 11th century shrine of Lord Lingaraj Temple with silver was announced by the Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sanjay Singh on Friday. Singh, along with officials from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) visited the temple to conduct a ground survey for the face lift of the shrine’s main entrance gate earlier in the day.
- Nine ECMO machines have been installed at SCB and it is the largest unit in eastern India. Critically ill patients no longer need to depend on other states to seek such advance treatment. The State government will bear the cost of the entire treatment.
- The CBSE wants to create career counsellor/ teacher dashboard and train them through a digital training session of 1 hour and 30 minutes duration.
- The JEE Advanced exam will be held in two shifts- first shift from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon (Paper-1) and second shift from 14:30 pm to 17:30 pm (Paper-2).
- The Delhi government will soon come out with "the most progressive" film policy in the country that will provide a massive boost to the entertainment industry, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday.
- The Shiv Sena and BJP are linked by the "bond of Hindutva" but newcomers like Narayan Rane spoiled the relations between the two parties, Sena leader Sanjay Raut said here on Friday.
- Mumbai, which has been battling freak weather conditions and erratic rains over the last few years, launched an ambitious plan to tackle the impact of climate change.
- The Taliban have asked the United States to maintain a diplomatic presence in Kabul after the American pullout but Washington has yet to decide on its plans, US officials said Friday.
- About 12,500 people were evacuated from Afghanistan on Thursday, raising the total number of evacuees amid the Taliban takeover of Kabul to roughly 105,000 since August 14, the White House said on Friday.
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