1.The Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee (SJTMC) Friday approved a budget of Rs 413 crore for the financial year 2024-2025 and also decided to set up a dedicated FM Radio station for spreading Jagannath culture.

2.India’s economic growth slowed to a 15- month low of 6.7 per cent in April-June 2024-25, mainly due to poor performance of the agriculture and services sectors, government data showed Friday.

3.People across all age groups in India, both men and women, are consuming inadequate amounts of micronutrients critical for health, including iron, calcium and folate, as per estimates in a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal.

4.A whopping 75 per cent of corneal blindness cases in India are untreated due to lack of eye donors, said an expert Thursday. Corneal blindness is the second leading cause of visual impairment in India with a current burden of 1.1 million people.

5.The state witnessed 2,826 rape cases and 1,362 murder cases in 2023, the White Paper, circulated by the Home department among members of the Assembly, said.

6.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday apologised to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and those hurt by the collapse of the warrior king’s statue in coastal Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra.

7.Nationalist Congress Party-SP (NCP-SP) chief Sharad Pawar, accorded Z-plus protective cover recently, is learnt to have turned down certain measures suggested by security agencies.

8.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said Odisha will contribute significantly to India’s growth and will become a growth engine of India by 2047.

9.The state government has decided to discontinue the ‘Nutana Unnata Abhilasha, Odisha’ (NUAO) scholarship scheme for college students, Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj told the state Assembly Friday.

10.The state government has asked all senior officials to set up breastfeeding cabins in offices and public places, an official said.

11.The government Friday issued a toll-free number (14678) to help beneficiaries of Subhadra Yojana, a flagship scheme for the welfare of women between 21 and 60 years of age.

12.In an attempt to meet the unmet demands of private FM radio channels and provide diverse local content, the Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its green signal to open private FM radio stations in 234 new towns/cities in the country, including 19 in Odisha.

13.Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of a stateof-the-art hygienic wholesale fish market at Bahrda (Basta), Balasore in virtual mode Friday.

14.Andhra Pradesh Legislature will soon go paperless and digital by becoming a part of the National eVidhan Application (NeVA) administered by the Union Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

15.The growth in production of eight key infrastructure sectors slowed to 6.1 per cent in July this year due to a decline in the output of crude oil and natural gas, according to official data released Friday.

16. Markets watchdog Sebi has amended norms in a bid to regulate unregistered financial influencers or finfluencers amid growing concerns about potential risk associated with such unregistered persons.

17.Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren joined the BJP Friday, two days after he resigned from the JMM citing dissatisfaction with the party's current style of functioning and "bitter humiliation".

18.Forty years after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a Delhi court Friday ordered framing of charges for murder and other offences against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a case related to the killing of three people in north Delhi's Pul Bangash area during the violence.

19.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Friday ordered an inquiry over allegations of hidden cameras installation in a girl students’ washroom of an engineering college here.

20.A deep depression that triggered torrential rains and floods in Gujarat Friday intensified into cyclone Asna off the coast of Kachchh and the adjoining areas of Pakistan, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said