- Members of Parliament will vote Saturday to elect the next Vice President of India in an election where NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar is pitted against Opposition pick Margaret Alva.
- Home, auto and other loan EMIs are set to rise further after RBI Friday raised the key interest rate by 50 basis points, the third straight increase since May in an effort to cool stubbornly high inflation.
- Holding a high-level meeting with senior officials, Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra directed the departments to expedite the recruitment process for regular posting in vacant positions
- The Supreme Court Friday reiterated that prisoners, especially from the weaker economic social milieu, who have been languishing in jail for 10 years, should be released on bail, and since the country is celebrating 75 years of Independence, some action in this direction should be taken by both Central and state governments.
- Reiterating its longstanding demand, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Friday urged the Centre and all political parties to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33 per cent seats in state assemblies and Parliament for women.
- A review meeting of all Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) cum Sub-Collectors from across the state was held Friday here at Madhusudan Das Regional Academy of Financial Management, under the Chairmanship of Sushil Kumar Lohani, Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha
- The CBI has arrested four people, including a Deputy General Manager (DGM) of Orissa Stevedores Limited, in a Rs 25 lakh bribery case involving a Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Paradip Port Trust, officials said Friday.
- A special Public Money Laundering Act court (PMLA) Friday sent former state minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee to 14 days judicial custody in connection with the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment scam.
- Prevalence of anaemia among children aged six months to five years has increased by more than nine per cent in about five years, the Centre told the Lok Sabha Friday quoting NFHS-5, conducted during 2019-21.
- The strength of undertrials in Uttar Pradesh prisons is three times more than that of convicts, which explains why the jails are overcrowded. The undertrials constitute nearly 76 per cent of the total jail population.
- Fourteen people were killed and dozens badly injured when a fire broke out early Friday at a crowded music pub in eastern Thailand, police and rescue workers said. At least a dozen survivors were in critical condition.
- Friday turned out to be a splendid day for Indian wrestlers at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) as Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia and Sakhsi Malik clinched gold medals, while Anshu Malik grabbed silver in her maiden appearance at the showpiece event.
- India on Friday reported a total of 20,551 new Covid cases, bringing the country's Covid tally to 4,41,07,588.
- The Special Court for Exclusive Trial under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Act) sentenced 27 people to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of three Dalits in Tamil Nadu's Sivagangai district in 2018.
- Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe's largest nuclear site on Friday, causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to avert food shortages.
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