- Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born controversial author who faced Islamist death threats after writing ‘The Satanic Verses’, was attacked and suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck when a man stormed the stage as he was getting ready to deliver a lecture during an event here Friday, New York Police said.
- State Health and Family Welfare department will provide a free kit — equipped with contraceptives — to newlywed couples under a Central government initiative, Mission Parivar Vikas. Called ‘Nayi Pahal’ or ‘Nabadampati’ kit, it will be distributed by ASHAs and will also carry brochures, guidelines and other important literature on the importance of safe sex, family planning and spacing out births
- The state Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday approved three rural tap drinking water supply projects worth more than `1200 crore for three districts.
- Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the US and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it had caused cancer. Talc will be replaced by cornstarch, the company said.
- Odisha’s Soumya Ranjan Biswal, an environmentalist who has been on a mission to protect Olive Ridley Sea Turtles, was appointed a UN India Youth Advocate on International Youth Day, Friday.
- At least four police personnel from Odisha were among the 151 selected for the ‘Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation’ for 2022, an official said Friday
- A total of 12 elephants have died due to various reasons in the last three years in the Similipal wildlife sanctuary of Mayurbhanj district, sources said. The alarming rate of elephant deaths is due to the increasing number of human-animal conflict, officials informed. These conflicts have harmed both human beings and the pachyderms.
- The BJP-led Centre is strongly opposing free facilities to people as it lacks funds to support such welfare measures after waiving loans and taxes worth crores of its super rich friends said Arvind Kejriwal
- The AntiTerrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police Friday arrested an alleged terrorist linked to Jaishe-Mohammed, who was tasked with carrying out a 'fidayeen' attack on suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharm.
- As many as 100 “Aam Aadmi Clinics” will be dedicated to people by the Bhagwant Mann-led government in Punjab on the Independence Day August 15.
- Retail inflation softened to 6.71 per cent in July due to moderation in food prices but remained above the Reserve Bank’s comfort level of 6 per cent for the seventh consecutive month.
- India recorded a total of 16,561 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 4,42,23,557, according to the Union Health Ministry.
- The health condition of Raju Srivastava, the popular comedian who recently underwent successful angioplasty following a heart attack, is stable, his family said.
- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday won 140 seats out of the 186 village panchayat bodies which went to polls on August 10, said Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
- Ahead of Independence Day, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Friday changed profile pictures of its social media accounts to the national flag from its traditional saffron flag.
- More than 20 crore national flags have been made available to people since the announcement of the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign, culture ministry officials said on Friday.
- Announcing a bonanza for women on the occasion of 'Rakhar Punia', Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said 6,000 posts of Anganwadi workers will be filled in the state.
- Aam Aadmi Party's Raghav Chadha, a first time Member of Parliament or MP, assessing his performance in the Monsoon session of Parliament released his own "report card", possibly a first by any lawmaker.
- The Aam Aadmi Party is not part of any alliance and it is focussed on its own nationwide expansion, the party's national spokesperson Sanjay Singh said at a press conference, putting aside questions on projecting Nitish Kumar as PM candidate.
- Actor Ranveer Singh has been called for questioning by the Mumbai Police later this month in a case registered against him for posting nude photographs of himself on social media. The 37-year-old actor will be called to the Chembur police station on August 22 to join the investigation.
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