- India's 15th president -elect Droupadi Murmu. The arc of triumph forged through personal tragedy is complete for the unassuming politician who started public life as a councillor in Odisha and will be written into history as India's first tribal president and the second woman in the post.
- Yashwant Sinha, who ran for President as the opposition's joint candidate, congratulated India's new President Draupadi Murmu after the results came out this evening.
- There is no proposal to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court and high court judges, the government informed Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
- The government spent ₹ 911.17 crore on advertisements in newspapers, television channels and web portals in the past three years, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, blocked a second time from attending a summit abroad, has declared that he would "go ahead" with the visit.
- Jadavpur University Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Samantak Das was found dead in his residence in south Kolkata on Wednesday, police said.
- Cutting across party lines, legislators from BJD, BJP and the Congress demanded Thursday in the Assembly for enhancement of the MLA Local Area Development (LAD) fund.
- Industrialist Gautam Adani has left behind Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the world’s fourth richest person, according to the ‘Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires’ list.
- Well-known Odia TV and film actress Rajeswari Ray Mahapatra’s battle with cancer came to an end here at a private hospital Wednesday night. She was 37.
- Odisha has ranked 16th among the 17 major states in the NITI Aayog’s India Innovation Index 2021. The index revealed that the state has failed miserably in the field of innovation. This apart, the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Odisha is very low.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday congratulated the city of Rourkela for being selected among a group of ten cities set to attend the Urban 95 Academy Residency Week at the London School of Economics. Rourkela was selected on the basis of a proposed plan to make the city friendly for infants, toddlers and caregivers, and accommodating to slums and tribal communities.
- The Supreme Court Thursday said that it will await the Varanasi district judge's decision on the Gyanvapi mosque committee’s application raising objections to the maintainability of the civil suit filed by Hindu devotees.
- Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said Thursday that in 2021- 22, the ministry took strong action against YouTube channels working against the interest of the country.
- In a significant decision, the Supreme Court Thursday allowed the examination of a 24-week pregnant unmarried woman by an AIIMS medical board to determine whether the pregnancy can be safely terminated without endangering her life.
- Migrants play a very vital role in building the nation and their rights cannot be ignored at all, the Supreme Court said Thursday while asking the Centre to devise a mechanism so that they receive food grains without ration cards.
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