2.Two teachers from the State have been selected to receive the prestigious National Teachers’ Awards 2024. Dwiti Chandra Sahu and Santosh Kumar Kar were chosen to receive the award for their exemplary contributions to the teaching profession and enhancing the learning experience of students. Sahu and Kar are working at the Govt High School Billesu and Jaya Durga High School, Narla Road respectively. 

3.The Nandankanan Zoological Park on Bhubaneswar's outskirts added 20 new species to its family via an exchange programme with Alipore Zoo, Kolkata. 

4.Malayalam Movies Artistes (AMMA) for the third successive term, superstar Mohanlal Tuesday announced he was stepping down and the rest of the 17-member executive Committee also quit, in wake of criticism of the film body over the revelations made in the Justice Hema Committee report.

5.The state government has issued orders to raze 191 illegal apartments and buildings in the Capital city here, Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Minister Krushna Chandra Mohapatra told the Assembly Tuesday.

6.Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Tuesday said that all eligible women, including more than one member of a family, will be able to get the benefits of Subhadra Yojana.

7.Shalini Pandit took charge as the Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the School and Mass Education department, recently. Upon assuming her new role, she met with senior officials to share her vision and outline a strategic path forward for the department.

8.The BJP and Congress in Telangana traded barbs Tuesday soon after the Supreme Court granted bail to BRS MLC K. Kavitha in the Delhi excise policy case.

9.An amendment Bill to increase the minimum age of marriage for girls in Himachal Pradesh by three years to 21 was passed unanimously without discussion in the legislative Assembly .

10.A local court Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal till September 3 in connection with the alleged excise policy scam.

11.Chief secretaries and finance secretaries of 18 states and union territories (UT) personally appeared before the Supreme Court Tuesday to apprise it of whether they have complied with the Second National Judicial Pay Commission’s (SNJPC) recommendations on payment of salary, pension arrears and retirement benefits to judicial officers.

12.Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern Africa, the environment ministry said.

13.US Customs and Border Protection has detained nearly $43 million in shipments of electronics equipment from India since October under a 2022 law banning goods made with forced labour, according to agency data, representing a new focus for the trade enforcement agency.

14.The scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 28, 2014, has become the world's largest financial inclusion scheme — with more than 53.14 crore beneficiaries and total deposit balances at Rs 2,31,236 crore, the government said on Wednesday

15.BCCI secretary Jay Shah will take over as the next chairman of the ICC in December after he emerged as the sole nominee for the high-profile job, the global governing body for cricket announced Tuesday here.