- The Supreme Court has said that high courts are required to give notice to the accused before enhancing sentences so that they get an opportunity to defend their case.
- The Kerala High Court Friday refused to quash the conspiracy case registered against Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the gold smuggling case
- The Indian Council of Medical Research may conduct a sero-survey among contacts of monkeypox patients to check for the presence of antibodies and find out how many of them were asymptomatic, official sources said Friday.
- At least 10 students were critically injured after lightning struck a school in Deogarh district Friday afternoon. The incident took place at Kuturapasi Upper Primary School under Tileibani block. Reports said lightning struck when students of Classes IV and V were attending classes in a common room. Ten students sustained injuries.
- The depression formed in the Bay of Bengal intensified into a deep depression bringing rainfall to north Odisha districts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Friday.
- RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the retail inflation is “unacceptably and uncomfortably” high and proposed the 50 basis points hike in repo rate at the recent monetary policy review meeting.
- After Lokayukta detected embezzlement of fund sanctioned for a road project under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Gangadharpur panchayat under Dhamashala block of Jajpur, three engineers, one GRS and a former sarpanch were served notices for recovery of the fund.
- Women on average have more sex partners than men in 11 states and Union Territories (UTs) but the percentage of men who had sexual intercourse with someone who was neither their spouse or lived with stood at 4 per cent, much higher than that of women at 0.5 per cent, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data
- These states and UTs are: Rajasthan, Haryana, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu. Rajasthan had the highest number of women who had on an average 3.1 sex partners as against 1.8 for men
- Many areas of Sundarpada were flooded since Wednesday and people have been without electricity since then after the power supply was cut off due to the risks of short circuits
- The Orissa High Court (HC) has held that Public Interest Litigation (PIL) cannot be entertained in disputes relating to service matters, an official said Friday.
- The Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC) Friday published the final result of Junior Engineer-(Civil) 2019 for Water Resources department and Directorate of Fisheries on its website— www.ossc.gov.in. A total of 260 candidates (Water Resources department 257 and Directorate of Fisheries -3) found place in the list.
- Smoking, alcohol use, high body mass index (BMI), and other known risk factors were responsible for nearly 4.45 million global cancer deaths in 2019, according to study published in The Lancet journal Friday. The findings can help policy.
- Paradip Port has been at the forefront in successfully completing several public-private partnerships (PPP) projects worth over `3,000 crore recently, said Shantanu Thakur, MoS for Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
- India’s gold imports, which have a bearing on the country’s Current Account Deficit (CAD), rose 6.4 per cent to $12.9 billion during April-July this fiscal due to healthy demand, according to government data
- Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena ordered the transfer of 12 IAS officers last evening following the raids on Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia over allegations of corruption in the liquor policy.
- India reported a total of 15,754 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of Covid cases to 4,43,14,618,
- Four Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets and two C-17 heavy-lift aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Friday joined a 17-nation air combat exercise in Australia.
- Assam Police arrested two persons in Karimganj district on Friday for allegedly posing as CBI officers in order to extort money.
- The New York Times story on Delhi's education system was based on "an impartial and on-the-ground reporting", the American newspaper said on Friday, rejecting the paid news charge.
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