- Jagdeep Dhankhar was sworn Thursday in as the 14th Vice-President of India. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to Dhankhar during a brief ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- For the overall development of Alarnath temple at Brahmagiri and its periphery, the Odisha government will prepare a master plan within 15 days. As directed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, 5T Secretary VK Pandian visited Thursday the famous temple in Puri district and took stock of the existing facilities for pilgrims at the site
- As the country gears up to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its Independence, the state government has decided to distribute Tricolours free of cost among people, official sources said.
- In a bid to transform the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) into a carbon-neutral airport, the authorities have decided to make a 3.8- mega watt (MW) solar power plant operational and use only clean energy to run the facility.
- The Orissa High Court Thursday directed the state government to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the father of a 7-year-old girl for her “avoidable” death due to a wall collapse at a school in Keonjhar district nine years ago
- The Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) authorities have made elaborate arrangements for World Elephant Day to be celebrated Friday.
- An accused cannot be convicted on the ground of suspicion, no matter how strong it is, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, while acquitting a man in a murder case.
- The Delhi University will start value-addition courses on topics like emotional intelligence, the art of being happy and Indian fiction from the 2022-23 academic year as part of the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework-2022 (UGCF).
- The Karnataka High Court has held that married daughters are entitled for compensation by insurance companies on the loss of their parents in accidents.
- Observing that freebies and social welfare schemes are two different things, the Supreme Court Thursday said a balance has to be struck between the economy losing money and welfare measures. It also ruled out the possibility of considering a plea for de-recognising parties for making promises to give freebies.
- Income tax payers will not be allowed to enroll in the government’s social security scheme Atal Pension Yojana (APY) from October 1, according to a notification.
- The Supreme Court Thursday warned the state football associations of “exercising its authority” if ousted AIFF chief and NCP leader Praful Patel attends their meetings and interferes with the administration of justice.
- The Supreme Court-appointed technical expert on Thursday gave its approval for rigging of Supertech's twin towers with explosives while August 28 has been proposed as the date of demolition, officials said.
- India on Thursday recorded a total of 16,299 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections to 4,42,06,996, according to the Union Health Ministry.
- Within a short span of ten days, India Post has sold more than 1 crore national flags, through its 1.5 lakh post offices as well as online,informed the Ministry of Communications on Thursday.
- The Orissa High Court directed the state government on Thursday to pay ₹ 10 lakh as compensation to the father of a seven-year-old girl for her "avoidable" death due to a wall collapse at a school in Keonjhar district nine years ago.
- The Election Commission is learnt to have given the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena 15 more days to submit documents in support of its claim on the party's election symbol.
- A migrant worker from Bihar was shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district, police said on Friday.
- Four soldiers were killed and two were injured in a pre-dawn militant attack on an army post in Rajouri in a part of the district in Jammu that has remained peaceful for three decades.
- Delhi state authorities plan to enforce through a Rs 500 fine a precautionary mask mandate in public spaces amid rising Covid-19 infections in multiple states that experts believe are driven by new coronavirus sublineages and widespread public defiance against precautions.
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