1.The state government Monday announced extension of the deadline till January 1 for farmers to submit the report on crop damage due to unseasonal rains, and make claim for compensation.

2.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is the richest chief minister in India with assets worth over Rs 931 crore, while West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee is the poorest with just Rs 15 lakh, according to an Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report released Monday.

3.16,000 Indian construction workers have moved to Israel to replace Palestinian workers amid the raging war highlighting a troubling trend.

4.The Odisha government is set to implement the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana in the state by the end of February next year, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling said Monday.

5. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for extending the deadline for farmers to report crop damage due to unseasonal rains to insurance companies till January 1, 2025.

6.Direct flight services from two airports in the state to some prominent cities across the country will be launched in the first week of January 2025. According to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), direct flight services from Veer Surendra Sai Airport at Jharsuguda to Hyderabad, Raipur, Lucknow and Mumbai will be launched January 1.

7.The Enforcement Directorate Monday said it has found documents related to assets worth about Rs 33 crore after it conducted searches against a former Madhya Pradesh Transport department official and his associates as part of a money laundering probe linked to a disproportionate assets case.

8.The work to remove 377 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has got underway ahead of its planned disposal near Indore.

9.Artificial intelligence-enabled cameras, RFID wristbands and mobile app tracking are among the methods that will be used to track headcount of the pilgrims attending the Maha Kumbh in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj next month.

10.A fourth infant has died of hypothermia in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by nearly 15 months of war huddle in tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter arrives.

11.The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.

12.The Reserve Bank Monday said asset quality of banks improved further and their gross non-performing assets (GNPA) or bad loans ratio declined to a 12-year low of 2.6 per cent in September 2024 on the back of falling slippages and steady credit demand.

13.India's external debt rose to USD 711.8 billion as of September this year, up 4.3 per cent over June 2024, as per the data released by the Finance Ministry. At the end of September 2023, the external debt stood at USD 637.1 billion.

14.Facing criticism from the government over the central bank prioritising infl ation over growth, the new RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra Monday said that prospects of the Indian economy are expected to improve on the back of high consumer and business confi - dence in 2025.

15.Billionaire Gautam Adani’s group Monday announced its exit from FMCG joint venture Adani Wilmar by selling its entire stake to the Singaporean partner and in the open market for over USD 2 billion in a fi rst major deal since the US bribery indictment.