- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday said his government will promote chess in schools and colleges.
- Four institutes from Odisha found their place among the top 100 educational centres of the country, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)
- From the state in the top list. Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA) in Bhubaneswar rose to the 30th spot . The Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) climbed to 34. The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, jumped to 39. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, dropped to 65 from 58 a year ago. In the university list, the SOA bagged the 16th spot, followed by the KIIT at 20 and the Utkal University at 88 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)
- In a horrific incident, a man severed the head of his wife and walked 12 km to the police station carrying the head in a polythene bag in Dhenkanal district, Friday.
- Demonstrations, dharnas or religious ceremonies cannot be held in the precincts of Parliament House, a circular by the Rajya Sabha secretariat has said, drawing ire from the Opposition Friday even as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla insisted that such notices were being issued for years.
- Odisha recorded 1,043 fresh Covid-19 infections Friday, the highest single-day tally in five months, taking the caseload to 12,97,175, the Health department said in a bulletin.
- India reported a total of 20,038 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally of cases to 4,37,10,027, while the count of active cases of the disease has increased to 1,39,073, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.
- The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has seized ₹ 11.88 crore cash kept in bank accounts of Pankaj Mishra, the political representative of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, and others as part of a money laundering investigation.
- 29 bills to be taken up in the July 18-August 13 session, according to agenda submitted by government
- The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to direct the central government to build an airport in the Mayurbhanj district of Orissa by reviving an airstrip constructed there in the year 1940.
- A Delhi court while granting bail to Alt News fact-checker Mohammed Zubair in a 2018 tweet case on Friday said Hinduism is one of the oldest and most tolerant religions.
- The Supreme Court Friday said its "overriding and exceptional" power under the Constitution to hear appeals against any judgement has to be exercised sparingly to prevent "grave or serious miscarriage of justice".
- Rajya Sabha member Laxmikant Bajpai was Friday appointed as the BJP's new chief whip in the House, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Friday.
- As partner BJP got angry at SSP Manavjeet Singh Dhillon, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar yesterday asked top police officers to seek explanation from him in 48 hours.
- The Union health ministry has asked global vaccine alliance GAVI to supply 5 crore of the allocated 10 crore doses of Covishield to India under the COVAX facility free of cost, official sources said Friday.
- The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras retained the top spot among institutes in the country for the fourth consecutive year whereas the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru was the best university and research institution, according to the Ministry of Education's National Institutional Ranking Framework rankings.
- Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma Friday inked a pact to end the decades-old border dispute between the two states, and they agreed in principle on restricting the number of contested villages to 86 instead of 123
- Ruling BJP in Karnataka has come under pressure as the High Court categorically said that the police subinspector (PSI) recruitment scam is “heinous than a murder” and equated it to terrorism.
- The Centre has received proposals envisaging an investment of `23,000 crore under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar said Friday
- Elected members of Parliament and members of state legislative assemblies will get ballot papers of different colours on July 18 when they vote to elect the next President of India. While MPs will get green papers, the MLAs will get ballot papers printed in pink.
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