- The Supreme Court nixed Wednesday the plea of a permanent bench of the Orissa High Court in Sambalpur. The apex court said that the ‘use of technology has made the demands by the agitating lawyers obsolete’.
- At least 21 people died Wednesday and many are battling for their lives after allegedly consuming spurious liquor in Bihar’s Saran district. Police have officially confirmed 17 deaths while a section of the media has reported that 24 persons have lost their lives.
- A staggering 1.58 crore children aged between 10 and 17 years in the country are addicted to substances, the government told the Supreme Court Wednesday.
- According to data from a recent national poll on wedding spending, 53 per cent of Millennials prefer a small wedding with fewer than 100 people, followed by 31 per cent who want a medium-sized wedding with between 100 and 250 attendees, and only 16 percent who choose a large wedding with more than 250 guests.
- The Parliament passed two Bills:(a) The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022.(b) New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Bill, 2022.
- The Lok Sabha passed ‘The Supplementary Demands for Grants - First Batch for 2022-23 and Demand for Excess Grants for 2019-20.
- Female enrolment in Indian Institutes of Technology has increased from 8% in 2016 to 20% in 2021-2022.
- Meghalaya government, which has adopted a ‘Jan Andolan’ (people’s movement) against Tuberculosis received an award for best practices in controlling the disease that affects 2.6 million people.
- Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud virtually inaugurated 10 district court digitisation hubs (DCDH) in Odisha.
- Banks have written off bad loans worth ₹ 10,09,511 crore during the last five financial years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed Parliament
- The Centre has said that over 11 crore 18 lakh metric tons of foodgrains have been allocated to States and Union Territories so far under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY).
- The three officials of the Forest department who were earlier suspended for their complicity in the alleged burning of the carcass of a poached tusker in the Similipal Tiger Reserve in Mayurbhanj district were arrested.
- A scam worth `6 crore has been committed in a cooperative society in Nayagarh district. The financial wrongdoing has serious repercussions on the functioning of the society as scores of depositors have been left high and dry without getting their deposit amounts back.
- Bhadrak district has stood first among the districts in the country in preparation of identification cards for Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA).
- India plans to commission 20 nuclear power plants by 2031, adding nearly 15,000 MW in power generating capacity, the government told the Lok Sabha Wednesday.
- The country's apex investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has over 22 per cent vacancies in its workforce.
- The number of cyber attacks in India has recorded a steady growth over the past few years, and the total number as reported to and tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in the current year stands at 12,67,564 (till November), the Parliament was told Wednesday.
- Ukrainian forces said today they had shot down an entire swarm of Iranian-made drones launched at the capital by Russian troops in their latest attack on Kyiv.
- Peru’s new government declared 30-day national emergency Wednesday amid violent protests following the ouster of President Pedro Castillo, suspending the rights of people to gather and move freely across the Andean nation.
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) has kept its outlook for India’s economic growth unchanged at 7 per cent for the current fiscal year while forecasting a weaker-than-previously expected pace for developing Asia
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