1..All beneficiaries of Subhadra Yojana will get their first instalment of Rs 5,000 by March 8, 2025, Deputy CM Pravati Parida said.

2.Odisha police Wednesday found a man, the key suspect in the brutal killing of a woman in Bangalore, hanging from a tree in Bhadrak district, an officer said.

3.The Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate court here Wednesday allowed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to conduct polygraph test on Dinakrushna Mishra.

4.The state is likely to experience heavy rainfall for two days under the influence of the lowpressure area over Westcentral and adjoining Northwest Bay of Bengal (BoB) off north Andhra Pradesh-south Odisha coasts, (IMD) said Wednesday.

5.Educationist, social activist and KIIT and KISS founder Achyuta Samanta was conferred with an honorary doctorate by Assam Down Town University in Guwahati Wednesday. This is the 60th honorary doctorate for Samanta.

 6.India and the UK Wednesday launched a Women in Space Leadership Programme (WiSLP) with an aim to create a gender-inclusive environment in the field of space sciences.

7.The second phase of polling in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections saw a voter turnout of over 56 per cent Wednesday, with the democratic exercise passing off peacefully amid tight security.

8. Assam BJP's SC Morcha secretary Ashim Kumar Das and two others have been arrested for allegedly duping several companies of nearly Rs8 crore by issuing fake government work orders, police said Wednesday.

9. The Supreme Court Wednesday cautioned courts against making comments that may be construed as “misogynistic” or directed towards a particular “gender or community” and said no part of Indian territory can be called Pakistan.

10.Justice Rajiv Shakdher was sworn in as the chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court Wednesday.

11.A study by the MSME Export Promotion Council (EPC) stated that over 25 per cent of micro and small enterprises in Northeastern states are struggling to survive and suggested a five-point strategy to revive these units and support new startups.

12.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s main rival in Canada’s Parliament Tuesday introduced a motion of no confidence in the ruling Liberals, in the first major test of his unpopular minority government.

13.More than 350 leaders and workers of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, have been booked under terrorism and other charges by Pakistan’s Punjab Police.

14.India ranks third in the annual Asia Power Index, released by an Australian think-tank, surpassing Japan on the back of strong post-Covid 19 economic growth, while China’s power appeared to plateau just below the United States.

15.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Wednesday retained India’s growth forecast for the current fiscal at 7 per cent saying better farm output and higher government spending will boost economic activity.