1.Senior advocate Pitambar Acharya, who fought the case for reopening of Srimandir Ratna Bhandar, was Friday appointed the new Advocate General of Odisha.

2.Odisha celebrated Rasagola Dibasa on the occasion of Nildari Bije Friday when Lord Jagannath and His siblings returned to Srimandir sanctum sanctorum after the annual Rath Yatra.

3.Padmashri Kamala Pujari passed away at the age of 70. He died while undergoing treatment at Cuttack SCB. He was awarded the Padma Shri for conservation of various varieties of rice.

4.Indian Railways has successfully managed and transported more than 15 lakh passengers to and from Puri during the Rath Yatra period.

5.The Bombay High Court Friday slammed the Maharashtra government and ordered a complete halt to all demolition activities in the vicinity of Vishalgad Fort in Kolhapur, which was rocked by violence between two communities earlier this week.

6.The Supreme Court Friday agreed to examine the contours of Article 361 of the Constitution which grants ‘blanket immunity’ to governors from any kind of criminal prosecution.

7.The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has topped the income chart among regional parties for the financial year 2022-23 with `737.67 crore, 42.38 per cent of the total, according to poll rights body ADR.

8.In one of the biggest-ever IT outages, an update of a product offered by global cybersecurity firm Crowd Strike triggered problems with Microsoft’s Windows across the planet, hitting operations at financial sector companies and airlines while hospital operations got postponed and some television channels went off air.

 9.Mangalore City Municipal Commissioner C L Anand was among the 13 government officials raided by Lokayukta sleuths in Karnataka Friday in connection with disproportionate assets cases, a Lokayukta official said.

10.The top UN court says Israel’s presence in the Palestinian occupied territories is “unlawful” and called on it to end.

11.The population of Hindus in Pakistan increased from 3.5 million in 2017 to 3.8 million in 2023 to make it the largest minority community in the Islamic nation, according to the official data of last year’s census.

12.Now, one could get away from the adverse effects of allopathic treatment for general fever and benefit from the side-effect-free Ayurvedic medicine ‘Fevogrit’.

13.India Friday described the violent protests in Bangladesh as an “internal” matter of Dhaka but at the same time said it was closely monitoring the situation in the context of 15,000 Indians residing in that country.

14.Chhattisgarh-based Coal India subsidiary South Eastern Coalfields Limited’s Gevra and Kusmunda coal mines have secured the second and fourth spots, respectively, in the list of the world’s 10 largest coal mines released by WorldAtlas.com.

 15.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday claimed to have attached properties worth `1.52 crore belonging to Basanta Das, a mining lease holder, under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.