1.Winding up the annual nine-day Rath Yatra festival in Puri, chariots of sibling deities Lord Jagannath, Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra reached the Srimandir here Monday.

2.Senior IPS officer Ravi Kant, who was Odisha’s Resident Commissioner in New Delhi, has been transferred and posted as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the Home department, official sources said Monday here.

3.Senior IPS officer DS Kutey has been posted as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Home department, official sources said Monda

 4.Baikuntha Pradhan, the assistant section officer (ASO) at Raj Bhavan here was transferred Monday and posted at the Home department. Pradhan had recently alleged that he was assaulted by Governor Raghubar Das’s son Lalit Kumar at the Raj Bhavan in Puri.

5.SJTA chief administrator Arabinda Padhee threw out Monday a non-servitor who was inside the chariot yard near the Gundicha Temple here.

6.Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja was given additional charge of the Chairman of Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB), Monday.

7.Odisha is bracing for prolonged rainfall in the next four days due to a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal, the IMD said Monday. While one low pressure area was formed, another is likely to follow July 19, the IMD said.

8.Despite tall claims being made about the implementation of a host of measures for malaria prevention, occurrences of the vector-borne disease continue to remain high and showing an upward trend in several regions of the state.

9.Artificial Intelligence-enabled cameras with facial recognition technology have now been installed in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly that will record arrival and exit time of members, as well as the duration of their presence in the House.

10.The West Bengal government Monday reinstated Rajeev Kumar as the Director General of Police (DGP), replacing Sanjoy Mukherjee, an official statement said.

11.Seasoned diplomat Vikram Misri, widely regarded as an expert on China and national security, assumed charge as India’s new Foreign Secretary Monday.

12.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he aimed to have a plan ready in November to enable Kyiv to hold a second international summit on his vision of peace in Ukraine, and that representatives of Russia should attend.

13.The Indian government has released the first tranche of $2.5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as part of its annual contribution of $5 million for the year 2024-25, the Representative Office of India here said Monday.

14.Record immigration caused the population of England and Wales to rise by 6,10,000 to 60.9 million in mid-2023, the largest annual increase in 75 years, official data showed Monday.

15.Wholesale inflation in the country surged to a 16-month high of 3.36 per cent in June on account of rise in prices of food articles, especially vegetables and manufactured items.

16.Rupee depreciated 10 paise and settled for the day at an all-time low of 83.61 (provisional) against the US dollar Monday, weighed down by the overall strength of the American currency in the overseas market.

17.India is exploring ways to boost its exports to Russia, including by encouraging rupee-rouble trade and pushing Moscow to lift non-tariff barriers, New Delhi said Monday, in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Moscow

18.Vedanta group firm Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) Monday said it has contributed `13,195 crore to the exchequer in the last financial year, representing about 46 per cent of its total revenues.

19.Food-delivery firm Zomato has hiked the platform fee to `6 from `5 per order in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.

20.Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to become the first country in the world to reverse such a ban had been closely followed by activists abroad.