1.The Central government is likely to bring three Bills, including two to amend the Constitution, to put in place its plan to hold simultaneous elections.

2.The Union Health Ministry has asked all states and Union Territories to facilitate the enrolment of all eligible senior citizens aged 70 years and above to enable them to avail the benefits of the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme.

3.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday heaped praises on Ramjeet Tudu, a youth from Mayurbhanj district, for his unique campaign to preserve the Santhali language and ‘Ol Chiki lipi’.

4.The Odisha state government will release the first instalment (Rs 5,000) to more than 40 lakh beneficiaries under its flagship women-centric programme Subhadra Yojana October 9.

5.The Odisha state government Sunday transferred over 55 IPS officers, including SPs of 21 districts, and appointed Suresh Dev Datta Singh, a 1998-batch IPS officer, as the Commissioner of Police for the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

6.The eKYC updation of over two crore beneficiaries of the public distribution system (PDS) has been completed in the state and that of the remaining 1.5 crore will be done in the next 45 days, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra said Sunday.

7.Director of State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) Vinaytosh Mishra has been appointed as ADGP, CID-CB as the state government effected major shuffling in the senior and mid-level IPS officers Sunday.

8.Odisha secured top ranks in the 2024 Urban Governance Index (UGI), according to an independent study conducted by Praja Foundation and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) released recently.

 9.Proud moment for this northeastern district, as scientist Siddhartha Pati of Balasore has been chosen for the prestigious Biju Patnaik Wildlife Conservation Award 2024 by the state Forest, Environment and Climate Change department for his significant contribution to conservation of horseshoe crabs.

10.Justice Manmohan Sunday took oath as the 32nd chief justice of the Delhi High Court. Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena administered the oath to the 61-year-old judge at a ceremony at the Raj Niwas, the LG’s secretariat.

11.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various projects of `11,200 crore in Maharashtra via video conference.

12.The Israeli military said Sunday that it killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the killing of its overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

13.The combined market valuation of eight of the top-10 most valued firms surged Rs1,21,270.83 crore last week, with Reliance Industries becoming the biggest gainer, in line with an outstanding rally in benchmark equity indices.

14.Foreign investors have poured Rs 57,359 crore into Indian equities in September, making it the highest inflow in nine months, mainly driven by a rate cut by the US Federal Reserve.

15.Despite a rainfree morning and bright sunshine later in the day, day three’s play of the second Test between India and Bangladesh was called off without a ball being bowled at the Green Park Stadium.