- This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organisation Center for Civil Liberties, a strong rebuke to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday.
- The RSS-affiliated Sewa Bharti on Friday awarded Ratan Tata and Chalasani Babu Rajendra Prasad the 'Sewa Ratna' for their work in the field of philanthropy.
- Women bagged the top three positions in the Odisha Civil Services (OCS) 2020 examination, the results of which were announced by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) Friday. Tejaswini Behera secured the top rank, while Subhankari Sudeshna Das and Ananya Shrusti Satpathy secured the second and third positions respectively.
- The Odisha government Friday accorded inprinciple approval for setting up of 10 industrial projects with an investment of `1,923.60 crore in different sectors.
- The state government has rolled out annual work plan (AWP) of Rs 85.85 crore for continuing anti-Naxal operations during the current year.
- Odisha has registered around 4 per cent decline in road mishap fatalities in the month of July this year as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year. According to sources, the state has registered 383 road mishap deaths in July 2022 as against 399 such deaths in July 2021 – a decline by 4.01 per cent.
- A new NASA-funded technology for future space missions may charge an electric car in just five minutes on Earth, paving the way for increased adoption of such vehicles, the US space agency said.
- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin Friday filed nomination papers for the president’s post in the ruling DMK intra-party elections. The party general council meeting is scheduled to be held October 9 at St. George School, Aminjikarai, Chennai.
- The Enforcement Directorate Friday launched fresh raids in connection with its money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the nowscrapped Delhi excise policy, official sources said.
- Six Indian prisoners, who completed their jail terms, died in Pakistan in the last nine months and India has raised the "alarming" issue with Islamabad, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday.
- The Election Commission has asked the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena to respond by Saturday on rival Eknath Shinde group's claim on the party's 'bow and arrow' election symbol in view of the upcoming assembly bypoll in the state.
- Setting in motion the process of appointing the next head of the Indian judiciary, the government on Friday wrote to Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit to recommend his successor.
- Over 1.25 lakh old vehicles registered in Gautam Buddh Nagar will be taken off the roads in compliance with a National Green Tribunal order on phasing out diesel and petrol vehicles older than 10 and 15 years, respectively, from the national capital region.
- A total of 153 judges have been appointed to the various high courts in this calendar year so far, with sources hinting at more appointments to the higher judiciary in the coming days.
- Karnataka Transport Department Friday issued notices to Ola, Uber and Rapido to immediately stop their auto services, and directed them to give explanation on complaint against exorbitant charges levied to customers.
- The IMF anticipates that the world could lose $4 trillion in economic output between now and 2026. This is the size of the German economy - a massive setback for the world economy KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA , MD, IMF said.
- The UN's top human rights body voted Friday to appoint an independent expert to step up scrutiny of Russia's rights record at home as arbitrary arrests, a crackdown on dissenting voices and limits on free speech worsen during the war in Ukraine.
- The government Friday invited bids for privatising IDBI Bank and said that it together with LIC will sell a total of 60.72 per cent stake in the financial institution.
- YSRTP founder and president YS Sharmila on Friday said her party will fight the 2023 Telangana assembly polls on its own and contest all 119 seats in the state.
- Police detained 10 people when they were protesting outside the Supreme Court on Friday with controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand claiming they had gone there to seek "legal sanction" to kill themselves due to repeated death threats from "jihadis"
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