Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik formally submitted his resignation as the chief minister of Odisha to Governor Raghubar Das at Raj Bhavan here, Wednesday.

2. Days after a doctor of Kalimela community health centre (CHC) in Malkangiri district went missing from his official quarters after being allegedly kidnapped by Maoists, police traced him to Karnataka, Wednesday.

3. State BJP president Manmohan Samal Wednesday created a controversy by saying that the main agenda of the new government would be to replace the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) of the BJD government with the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat healthcare scheme in the state.

4. Rebounding from their worst single-day slide in four years, benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty soared over 3 per cent each on heavy value buying by investors after NDA alliance partners started talks on government formation.

5. Outgoing CM Naveen Patnaik Wednesday said that when he took charge of Odisha, 70 per cent of the state’s population was living below the poverty line, and during his 24-year tenure, he brought it down to 10 per cent.

6. Odisha has witnessed around six per cent rise in the elephant population since 2017, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) Susanta Nanda said here, Wednesday.

7. The number of sunstroke-related deaths rose to 36 in the state this summer, with two more confirmed cases, an official statement said Wednesday.

8. Groundwater is projected to warm by 2 to 3.5 degrees Celsius before the turn of this century, potentially risking water quality and safety, apart from threatening ecosystems depending on the resource.

9. Twenty-fiveyear-old Sanjana Jatav of the Congress is set to be one of the youngest Members of Parliament (MPs) after her victory in the Bharatpur Lok Sabha seat of Rajasthan. Ms Jatav registered an impressive win over BJP’s Ramswaroop Koli by 51,983 votes.

10. After the BJP's Lok Sabha tally came down from 23 to 9 in Maharashtra, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis Wednesday offered to quit the post so that he could work "full time" for the party ahead of assembly elections.

11.  A total of 74 women have won the Lok Sabha elections, a slight dip from 78 elected in 2019.

12. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Bombay and Delhi are among the top 150 universities in the world, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) retained the top rank globally for the 13th time, according to the QS World University Ranking, 2025 announced Wednesday.

13. Sri Lanka and the Maldives have held successful bilateral talks to reaffirm positive diplomatic relations during the ongoing visit of the Maldivian foreign minister Moosa Zameer.

14. The rupee tumbled 37 paise to close at 83.51 against the US dollar Tuesday as the ruling BJP fell short of the absolute majority in the Lok Sabha elections.

15. The United Nations said Tuesday that global public debt rose to a record $97 trillion last year, with developing countries owing roughly one-third of that — crimping their ability to pay for basic government services like health care, education and climate action. UN Trade and Development, formerly known as UNCTAD, said the value of money owed by governments rose by $5.6 trillion from 2022.