- Odia fiction writer Gourahari Das will get the 43rd edition of prestigious Sarala Puraskar for his short-story collection ‘Bagha O Anyanya Galpa’, published by Timepass Publication in 2018.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik attended the Foundation Day celebrations of Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan Monday and laid the foundation stone of Teachers Training Centre at Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan campus in Bhubaneswar
- Former chief minister and Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder Singh joined the BJP here Monday in the presence of senior BJP leaders Narinder Singh Tomar and Kiren Rijiju.
- The Odisha government Monday hiked Dearness Allowance (DA) of employees by 3 per cent with retrospective effect from January 1, 2022.
- Senior BJP leader Bishnu Charan Sethi, 61, passed away Monday. The deputy leader in Assembly was admitted to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar August 16.
- Ateam of US researchers has found that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70 per cent -- the lowest value a pulse oximeters should be able to measure.
- The National Service Scheme (NSS) should explore possibilities for educational intervention in online education in remote areas in addition to its regular activities, Bishnupada Sethi, state’s Principal Secretary in the department of Higher Education, said.
- The Enforcement Directorate Monday filed its first charge sheet against former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged associate Arpita Mukherjee in the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam-linked money laundering case, saying assets worth more than Rs 100 crore have been seized.
- A delegation of Gurudwara Bala Sahib visited Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence Monday. They offered him ‘prasad’ and blessings and honoured the Prime Minister by tying a ‘Pagdi’ and offering him a ‘Siropa’.
- Delhi has registered a huge spurt in dengue cases, with over 100 people being diagnosed with the infection in the last one week, taking the tally of the vector-borne disease in the city to nearly 400 so far this year.
- Top lender State Bank of India has asked exporters to avoid settling deals with Bangladesh in the dollar and other major currencies as it looks to curb exposure to Dhaka’s falling reserves, according to an internal document and a source.
- INS Ajay was decommissioned on Monday after rendering 32 years of glorious service to the nation.
- India on Monday reported 4,858 new Covid cases, taking country's Covid tally to 4,45,39,046.
- President Droupadi Murmu has approved the appointment of new directors to eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), according to the education ministry. Seshadri Sekhar and Shreepad Karmalkar, both professors at IIT Madras, have been appointed as directors of IIT Palakkad and IIT Bhubaneshwar respectively.
- The Election Commission has proposed bringing down anonymous political donations from ₹ 20,000 to ₹ 2,000 and cap cash donations at 20 per cent or at a maximum of ₹ 20 crore to cleanse election funding of black money.
- The famous Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh has collected a record ₹ 81 crore as donations from devotees and other transactions between September 1, 2021 and September 15 this year.
- President Droupadi Murmu along with other global leaders attended the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London on Monday.
- The Assam Assembly on Monday passed an amendment bill to include penal measures for private schools that fail to comply with provisions of an act concerning regulation of fees. The House also passed three other bills, paving the way for setting up of three universities in the state. 'The Assam Non-Government Educational Institutions (Regulation of Fees) (Amendment) Bill, 2022' was introduced in the Assembly by Education Minister Ranoj Pegu.
- Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Saturday inaugurated 41 science laboratories equipped with advanced infrastructure and resources at 21 schools renovated by the NDMC, according to an official statement.
- In a first, the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K) on Monday announced the opening of admissions for foreign students in undergraduate and post-graduate programmes.
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