- The State government Friday appointed IAS officer Usha Padhee as principal secretary to Skill Development and Technical Education (SD&TE) department. Padhee, who has returned from Central deputation, has been allowed to remain in additional charge as principal secretary of Commerce and Transport department, as per a notification issued by the General Administration & Public Grievance department.
- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Friday indulged in blame game over the establishment of a permanent bench of Orissa High Court in western parts of the state in the wake of the arrest of 43 lawyers and suspension of licenses of all advocates of Sambalpur for violence during a protest over the same issue.
- An aged woman has donated Rs 1 lakh that she has earned through begging in her entire life for renovation of an old Jagannath temple at Phulbani in Kandhamal district. Tula Behera has been begging for alms near various temples in Phulbani for the past 40 years. She was married to Prafulla Behera, a differently-abled person.
- Marking the 51st anniversary of 'Vijay Diwas', the Indian defence forces inaugurated a unique war-themed memorial garden, 'Vijay Udyan' in Mumbai dedicated to all the brave-hearts of the 1971 India-Pakistan War that saw the birth of Bangladesh
- Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud Friday said no regular vacation bench of the Supreme Court will be available from December 17 to January 1 during the winter vacation.
- The application process for the Common University Entrance Test for Graduation, CUET-UG, to be conducted between the 21st and 31st of May, will start in the first week of February next year.
- The Supreme Court Friday observed that public interest litigation (PIL) matters could become an instrument of blackmail when it is an issue of an infrastructure project, adding that PILs are being increasingly used to target infrastructure projects.
- The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed 3,097 km of roads in Arunachal Pradesh and 3,140 km in the Union Territory of Ladakh in the last five years, the government informed Parliament Friday.
- Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana envisages to generate direct and indirect employment opportunities to about 55 lakh personnel in fisheries and aquaculture sector by 2024-25.
- India’s GDP growth is on course to print close to 7 per cent this year in 2022-23, foreign brokerage, JP Morgan said in a report.
- Government on Friday said it has no proposal under consideration currently to enact a separate law to regulate digital media in the country.
- PM Modi has announced an ex-gratia of two lakh rupees for the next of kin of each deceased in the tragic cylinder mishap in Jodhpur, Rajasthan in which 32 people were killed and 50 injured in a the cylinder explosion at Bhungra village in the Shergarh subdivision on 8th of December.
- Joyita Mondal says authorities should be more sensitive towards the transgender community and their issues
- Before the end of 2024, road infrastructure will be equal to the standard of the USA, said Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday.
- About 30 per cent of the ₹ 6,000 crore 'Nirbhaya Fund' which was set up after the gang-rape of a paramedical student in 2012 remains unutilised, a decade after the incident shook the conscience of the nation.
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