- The flood situation in several northern districts was alarming Monday, as the swollen Subarnekha river inundated lowlying areas and left people in over 100 villages marooned, officials said.
- In deference to a direction from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Secretary to CM (5T) VK Pandian Monday visited the new BMC building at Satya Nagar by Deloitte and O-Hub building by IBM in Infocity to review the progress of the projects and ensure their timely completion.
- Vigilance sleuths Monday arrested tax collector-cum-ward officer of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and his assistant for receiving bribe of `15,000 from a person to reduce the holding tax on the latter’s house.
- With only a few months left for the Hockey Men’s World Cup, 2023, the state government is moving into top gear to set global benchmarks by successfully hosting the mega sporting event.
- Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) has been selected for the prestigious National CSR Award 2020 in two categories by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.
- Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided Monday the office of the Thakurani Iron Ore Mines at B-block here belonging to Sarada Mines Private Ltd under Barbil police limits and Joda mining circle in Keonjhar district. The raids were conducted on alleged charges of illegal mining and money laundering.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Haryana and Punjab August 24 to inaugurate and dedicate two important healthcare initiatives.
- China Monday announced plans to issue visas to hundreds of Indian students stranded at home for over two years due to Beijing's strict COVID restrictions, besides various categories of travel permits for Indians including business visas.
- Universities and higher education institutions will soon be able to hire distinguished experts as faculty members under a new category for which formal academic qualification and publication requirements will not be mandatory.
- India's first commercial space situational awareness observatory, to track objects as small as 10 cm in size orbiting the earth, will be set up in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand by Digantara, a space sector start-up.
- Chief Justice N V Ramana Monday said he has set up a five-judge Constitution bench to hear the legal issue concerning the scope of legislative and executive powers of the Centre and National Capital Territory government over control of services in Delh.
- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today showed a video that it claimed reveals the BJP's attempt to lure its MLAs with Rs 5 crore and topple the Arvind Kejriwal government.
- The Supreme Court today referred the case relating to the claim over Shiv Sena to a Constitutional bench. It framed eight questions for the larger bench to decide in the battle between Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit his home state Gujarat for two days this weekend, sources said. He will participate in the Khadi festival being organised at the Sabarmati River Front at 5.30 pm on Saturday.
- The Supreme Court on Tuesday criticisedyoga guru Baba Ramdev for his disparaging remarks on modern medicine systemslike allopathy.
- T Raja Singh, BJP MLA from Goshamahal in Telangana was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged derogatory comments against the Prophet Muhammad.
- The Supreme Court today agreed to list the challenge to the remission of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case for hearing "in due course".
- BJP leader Sonali Phogat died of a heart attack last night in Goa. She was 43.
- India logged 8,586 new coronavirus infections taking total tally of cases to 4,43,57,546 while the active cases have declined to 96,506, according to the Union health ministry data updated today.
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy Manish Sisodia will today interact with the youth in Gujarat's Bhavnagar on the issues of education and employment on the second day of their visit to the state where elections are due later this year.
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