1.Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday urged cybersecurity agencies to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify the modus operandi of criminals duping people of their hard-earned money, spreading fake news and abusing women and children online.

2.The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country’s population.

3.Israeli strikes blasted a huge crater in a designated safe zone in southern Gaza before dawn Tuesday, setting tents ablaze and burying Palestinian families under sand.

4.Ukraine strikes the Moscow region Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman.

5.Protesting junior doctors in West Bengal defied a Supreme Court order, asking them to resume work by 5 pm Tuesday, and said they would continue with their protest till their demands were fulfilled .

6.Amid a walkout by the Opposition BJD and Congress, the state Assembly Tuesday passed the Appropriation Bill, 2024 allowing the state government to spend Rs2.65 lakh crore from its consolidated fund during the financial year (FY) 2024-25.

7.Good news for hilsa (Ilisi) lovers. Although Bangladesh played the spoilsport by banning export of Padma river hilsa (or Ilisi) with Durga Puja round the corner, back-to-back low pressures in the Bay of Bengal have driven shoals of the prized fish towards Odisha coast.

8.The state government has felled more than 26.75 lakh trees between 2000 and 2023 for execution of 482 projects in various sectors, including mining, roads, irrigation and railways, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Ganesh Ram Singkhuntia told the Assembly Tuesday.

9.A special court here Tuesday awarded 10-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a man after holding him guilty of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl under Balianta police limits in 2020.

10.At least three more Vande Bharat Express trains will run through Odisha from September 15, the East Coast Railway said Tuesday.

 11.At least five poultry farmers were quarantined by the Health department Tuesday after avian fluaffected chickens were found in their poultry farms in this district, an official said.

12.The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore has developed a drone equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) application for close monitoring of structures located in inaccessible areas, an official said Tuesday.

13.The Congress Tuesday claimed that SEBI chairperson Madhabi Buch had a 99 per cent stake in a firm when it provided consultancy services to the Mahindra and Mahindra Group and her husband received `4.78 crore as income from the conglomerate while she was adjudicating cases of the same group.

14.In a relief for Shashi Tharoor, the Supreme Court Tuesday stayed proceedings before a trial court in a defamation case lodged against the Congress MP for his alleged “scorpion on Shivling” remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

15. Former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh was Tuesday sent to judicial custody till September 23 by a special CBI court in a financial irregularities case.

16.Equity mutual funds continued their steady growth in August attracting rs 38,239 crore fuelled by strong contributions from thematic funds, which was primarily owing to New Fund Offerings (NFOs).

17.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi met Tuesday here the president of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), Tayyab Ikram. They discussed strategies to further elevate Odisha’s position as a global hub for hockey and explored opportunities to host more international tournaments in the future.

18.Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced Tuesday cash awards of Rs75 lakh to the gold medallists, Rs50 lakh for silver medal winners and Rs30 lakh for the athletes who won bronze in the just-concluded Paralympic Games in Paris.

19.Women swimmers from Odisha scripted history Tuesday by winning the state’s first-ever medal at the Senior Nationals in Mangalore. They won a bronze in the 4x200m freestyle relay on the opening day of the 77th Senior National Aquatic Championships.

20.Swarmed by hundreds of supporters, garlanded and fed sweets, India’s Paralympic medal-winners returned home to a jubilant welcome Tuesday after securing an unprecedented haul of 29 medals at the just-concluded Games in Paris.