- The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination-2022 (OJEE-2022) will be conducted from July 4 to 8 for admissions into undergraduate and post-graduate courses in technical and professional colleges of the state, an official said Wednesday.
- India's first deluxe train, the Deccan Queen Express which connects two major cities of Maharashtra, Pune and Mumbai, on Wednesday completed 92 years of service.
- The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over low salary of home guards in Odisha and directed the state government to reconsider its decision of paying ₹ 9,000 per month.
- India recorded 2,745 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,60,832. The active cases also increased to 18,386, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
- Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp has banned over 16 lakh accounts of Indian users in April to prevent harmful activity on the app, according to the company's monthly disclosure report published on Wednesday.
- There has been a rise of around 82 per cent in hate speech on social media platform Facebook and 86 per cent jump in violent and inciting content on Instagram, according to a monthly report released by Meta.
- In an apparent bid to encourage a significant section of its employees to voluntarily retire, Air India on Wednesday reduced the eligibility age from 55 to 40 and announced cash incentive.
- Bollywood singer KK died due a cardiac arrest, indicate the preliminary findings of the post-mortem report, police said. The police also said that there is no foul play behind the singer's death.
- Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he has been invited to attend the World Cities Summit in Singapore to present the "Delhi Model" and is looking forwards to discussing urban solutions with other leaders
- A caste-based "count" rather than census will be held in Bihar, Nitish Kumar said today after an all-party meeting on a caste census this evening. The Chief Minister said all parties, including the BJP, agreed on a caste-count.
- Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, embroiled in an office of profit row with the Election Commission, has decided to turn the heat on five ministers of the erstwhile chief minister Raghubar Das regime by ordering state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau to probe into alleged disproportionate assets of the ministers.
- The ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Monday named senior leader Mahua Maji as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand.
- Of which, 532 schools were inaugurated Wednesday while the remaining will be dedicated in a phased manner till June 10. The Chief Minister dedicated 339 transformed high schools in Mayurbhanj district, 81 in Khurda, 24 in Boudh, 47 in Malkangiri and 41 in Sonepur through virtual mode.
- Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati have developed a bio-electrochemical device called Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) which can generate green energy by treating wastewater.
- Two personnel engaged in polling duty for byelection to Brajarajnagar Assembly seat in Jharsuguda district have died, officials said.
- The ED Wednesday said it has attached bank deposits of more than Rs 68.62 lakh of Islamist body PFI and its ‘front’ organisation Rehab India Foundation in connection with a money laundering investigation against them.
- Western nations promised more and more advanced arms to bolster Ukraine’s defence as its troops battled a grinding Russian offensive that was closing in on capturing a key city in the east.
- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a decree Tuesday outlawing the sale of e-cigarettes, continuing the government’s anti-vaping policy. Mexico had already prohibited imports of the devices since at least October.
- Jet fuel prices Wednesday were cut by 1.3 per cent -- the first reduction after 10 rounds of price hikes -- on softening international crude oil rates. Simultaneously, prices of commercial LPG - used by business establishments such as hotels and restaurants - were reduced by `135 per 19-kg cylinder.
- Jharkhand-Bihar’s first free home palliative-care services to provide psychosocial and nursing support to cancer patients was launched here on Wednesday.
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