- Padma Shri and Director of Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Ajay Parida breathed his last on Tuesday. Parida, 58, was on a visit to Guwahati to attend a conference where he suffered a massive heart attack while sleeping at night.
- The Odisha government approved Tuesday proposals for execution of mega piped water supply projects to benefit nearly 8.50 lakh people in four districts – Koraput, Rayagada, Jagatsinghpur and Angul.
- The Odisha government has decided to provide 9.6 acres of land free of cost to the Ministry of Culture for the purpose of setting up of a Paika Rebellion Memorial near Khurda town, state minister Niranjan Pujari told the Assembly Tuesday.
- The Orissa High Court (HC) Tuesday turned down a plea objecting the acquisition of around 3,000 sqft of land (playground) belonging to Shailabala Women’s Autonomous College for beautification of Cuttack Chandi temple here.
- In a first, the Railways will now use Google Maps to link the location of candidates appearing for its exams to test centres within a 300-km radius in order to cut their travel time
- The Gujarat police detained filmmaker Avinash Das from Mumbai Tuesday in a case related to sharing on Twitter a photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, an official said. He was being brought to Ahmedabad for further action, the official said.
- A total of 819 armed forces personnel committed suicide in the last five years, with the Army reporting a maximum of 642 such cases, according to details provided by the government.
- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday arrested former Mumbai Police commissioner Sanjay Pandey in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged illegal phone tapping of NSE employees, officials said.
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A woman sub-inspector was crushed to death in Jharkhand capital Ranchi during a vehicle check exercise last night. Sandhya Topno was posted as in-charge of Tupudana outpost in Ranchi.
- India’s passenger vehicle exports rose by 26 per cent in April-June 2022 aided by enhanced shipments to Latin America and Africa and a low base of the year-ago quarter that was hit by the second wave of Covid-19.
- The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalisation rates have also doubled.
- India on Tuesday reported at least 15,528 new coronavirus infections, taking the country's Covid tally to 4,37,83,062, while the active cases decreased to 1,43,654, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on yet another milestone of administering 200 crore vaccinations in India.
- India has a total of 13.34 lakh electric vehicles while the number of non-electric vehicles stood at 27.81 crore, Minister of State for Heavy Industries Krishan Pal Gurjar said on Tuesday.
- More than 40,000 pigs have died of African Swine Fever in Assam since its detection in the state in early 2020, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Minister Atul Bora said on Tuesday.
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