- The President of India Droupadi Murmu has approved the promotion of 13 Odisha Administrative Officers (OAS) to the rank of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) against the available vacancies.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik directed to provide Rs 300 to the poor especially senior citizens to purchase blanket to beat the winter condition. The move will benefit more than 48 lakh poor beneficiaries under Madhu Babu Pension Yojana and National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP). The government has sanctioned Rs 146 crore for the purpose, a release issued by the CMO stated.
- Use of mobile phones by the police personnel and security men engaged in the Shree Jagannath temple here has been restricted.The decision was taken in view of repeated incidents of Srimandir interior picture going viral on social media, Puri SP KB Singh said.
- 44 migrant labourers including 14 children were rescued while being trafficked to Hyderabad on Friday. According to reports, among the rescued labourers 30 were adults and 14 were children. They were from the Rengali Sundergarh district.
- The Centre has released Rs 17,000 crore to states/UTs towards the balance GST compensation for the period April to June this year
- Kerala-born Abraham Pannikottu’s American Engineering Group (AEG) has received funding from the US Department of Defence to develop and manufacture zero pressure tyres for the US Army.
- The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and the Attorney General on two petitions filed by gay couples seeking recognition of same sex marriage under the Special Marriage Act.
- The Delhi High Court on Friday passed an interim order in favour of veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, restraining various individuals and entities from infringing his personality and publicity rights.
- Actors Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Akshaye Khanna-starrer ‘Drishyam 2’ have raked in over Rs. 100 crore at the box-office.
- Kris Wu, the Chinese-Canadian music and acting star, was sentenced to a 13-year jail term by a Chinese court on Friday. He was found guilty of rape and group licentiousness. The court said that he will be deported after serving his sentence. Wu was arrested and formally charged in August last year, reports Variety.
- Increasing measles cases in several states have raised concern whether it could spread to more areas. Measles cases have been reported from Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala and Maharashtra.
- Apprehending that BJD MLA Susanta Singh might come under attack in bypoll-bound Padampur, with two BJP leaders, who had earlier allegedly assaulted his brother, camping in the segment, the ruling party Friday urged the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to enhance his security.
- An orientation programme for 203 assistant professors, who joined Odisha Medical Education Service Friday, was organised at convention centre of Lok Seva Bhawan here.
- The CBI Friday filed its first charge sheet in the Delhi excise policy scam case against seven accused while Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who was named in the agency's FIR, does not figure in the document.
- The Election Commission Friday directed officials for a review of the deletions and additions in the electoral rolls of three Assembly seats in Karnataka and ordered the suspension of two additional district election officials after allegations of "electoral fraud" in the state.
- The final electoral roll of Jammu and Kashmir was published on Friday with the highest-ever net addition of more than 7.72 lakh voters, officials said.
- An entire diesel engine was stolen part by part from a railway yard in Bihar's Begusarai district, police said Friday.
- Scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) commenced the countdown Friday for the launch of Earth Observation Satellite - Oceansat - and eight other customer satellites on a PSLV-C54 rocket from the spaceport of Sriharikota Saturday.
- Over four years after decriminalising consensual gay sex between adults, the Supreme Court Friday sought response from the central government to separate pleas by two gay couples seeking enforcement of their right to marry and a direction to the authorities to register their marriage under the Special Marriage Act.
- The death count from an earthquake that shook Indonesia’s main island of Java this week has risen to 310, the country’s national disaster mitigation agency said Friday.
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