- Students will be able to get an undergraduate (UG) ‘Honours’ degree after completing four years instead of three, according to new draft norms prepared by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
- The nexus between the Odisha Construction Corporation Limited (OCCL) officials and contractors has resulted in the state-owned firm incurring losses to the tune of over `20 crore, if a recently released Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India report is any indication
- France will make condoms free in pharmacies for anyone up to age 25 in the new year, President Emmanuel Macron has announced. The move comes as the government says sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise among young people, and as this year's exceptional inflation is cutting especially deeply into the budgets of France's poorest.
- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Chief Secretary to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the next of kin of a man who died by suicide in police custody at Barbil in Keonjhar in 2019.
- Hours after joining the Aam Aadmi Party, two newly-elected Congress councillors and party leader Ali Mehdi switched back to the grand old party and issued an apology. Posting a video on social media, Mehdi said he made a mistake by crossing over to the AAP and asserted that he is a "loyal worker" of the Congress and Rahul Gandhi
- An under-construction ropeway project at Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar will be operational soon and at best within a month, said Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra said.
- Odisha bagged the first prize by generating the highest number of ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts) IDs during Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day 2022 campaign,
- Musician Elton John is the latest celebrity to leave Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform.
- Elected unopposed as the first woman president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), track and field legend PT Usha on Saturday said during her tenure she is looking forward to working to making India a “global sporting superpower”.
- Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, 58, also the head of the Congress’ election committee, will be the next Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, while Mukesh Agnihotri will be his deputy.
- Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest producer of aluminium, is actively encouraging students in the hinterlands of Odisha to avail of educational opportunities, through its initiatives aimed at bridging learning gaps and enabling continued access to quality education.
- Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday made a surprising claim that Odisha might go to polls early this time before schedule.
- Bhupendra Patel on Saturday met Governor Acharya Devvrat and staked a claim to form a government after he was elected as the leader of the BJP legislative party.
- The Supreme Court has granted anticipatory bail to Amazon Prime Video's India head Aparna Purohit in FIRs lodged over the web series "Tandav".
- Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said five greenfield access control expressways are coming up and one of them between Delhi and Mumbai would be almost ready in December.
- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday declared a farm, located in Aluva here, as the first carbon neutral farm in the country.
- Sexual abuse of children remains a hidden problem as there is a culture of silence and therefore the state must encourage families to report abuse even where the perpetrator is a family member, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said.
- In a major revamp of its Jharkhand unit, the Congress on Saturday appointed a political affairs committee, 11 vice presidents, 35 general secretaries, 82 secretaries and a new working committee in the state.
- BJP MP Ravi Kishan held the Congress party responsible for him fathering four kids, saying that had the party, while in power at the Centre, brought the population control bill, he would have “stopped”.
- In her plea against the grant of remission which had led to the release of the convicts on August 15, Bano said the state government passed a mechanical order completely ignoring the requirement of law as laid down by the Supreme Court.
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