- Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was Wednesday elected as Sri Lanka’s new President by Parliament.
- Over 2,100 government-run and governmentaided schools in the state are running with just one teacher each, said School and Mass Education (S&ME) Minister Samir Ranjan Dash here, Wednesday.
- Alt News cofounder Mohammad Zubair was released from Tihar Wednesday night, hours after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged in Uttar Pradesh against him for alleged hate speech, prison officials said. Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police June 27 for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through his tweets.
- Kangana Ranaut has been busy calling the shots for her upcoming directorial Emergency, wherein she essays the role of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The film’s narrative is based upon the emergency declared in India between 1975 and 1977. While the movie is still being shot, it has landed in a political controversy.
- Odisha will soon have All Time Grain (ATG) dispensing machines to provide food grains to beneficiaries under the public distribution system. This was stated by Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak here Wednesday.
- The Online application process for Plus II admission into Arts, Science and Commerce stream began Wednesday. The students can fill up online application form on Student Academic Management System (SAMS) Odisha portal till August 10.
- Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has dissolved all departments and cells of his political party with immediate effect, a senior NCP leader said on Wednesday.
- West Bengal BJP called off its public meeting in Howrah's Uluberia, scheduled to be held on Thursday, citing its inability to hold a successful rally in view of the Calcutta High Court's conditions.
- A 19-year-old student, who was declared brain dead following an accident recently, has given a new lease of life to five individuals, a private health care facility said on Wednesday.
- A total of 24,134 people were arrested and faced trial under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) between 2016 and 2020 and only 212 of them were convicted, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday.
- The All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Wednesday won three seats in the civic body elections in Madhya Pradesh, taking its overall tally in the local polls held earlier this month in the state to seven.
- No-emigration claim comes just weeks after targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits led to demands of "asylum outside Jammu and Kashmir"
- Two people died, 35 were injured and 2,642 arrested from railway premises during the agitation against the Agnipath scheme, Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Parliament on Wednesday.
- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named 41 people, including senior officials of Eastern Coalfields Limited, in its chargesheet filed at a court in West Bengal’s Asansol in a multi-crore coal pilferage scam.
- A case was registered here against BJP MP from Nizamabad Dharmapuri Arvind for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, police said Wednesday.
- Cyberabad Police has destroyed drugs worth about Rs 2.5 crore. In the last two years, Cyberabad Commissionerate Police has seized around 5,406 kg ganja, 10.86 litre hashish/weed oil, 141 kg alprazolam, 206 gram cocaine, 200 gram opium, 333 gram MDMA.
- Jadavpur University Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Samantak Das was found dead in his residence in s o u t h Ko l k a t a We d n e s d ay, police said.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday said the petitions filed by the Shiv Sena and its rebel MLAs during the recent Maharashtra political crisis raised constitutional issues including split, the merger of a political party, defection, and disqualification which may require consideration by a larger bench.
- Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in 448 of India's 640 districts are higher than the target set under UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), according to the first mapping of India's maternal deaths at the district level.
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Wednesday said more than 13 lakh electric vehicles are registered in the country.
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