1.Governor-designate Hari Babu Kambhampati, who arrived in the City by a special fl ight Thursday afternoon, will take oath as the Governor Friday.

2.Noted Odia poet Prativa Satpathy will be conferred the Gangadhar National Award for Poetry 2023 by the Sambalpur University here on the occasion of its 58th foundation day January 5.

3.After bagging first prize at the 75th Republic Day Parade last year, the Odisha tableau will not feature during this year’s Republic Day Parade in New Delhi January 26.

4.The Jharkhand High Court Thursday granted the Enforcement Directorate (ED) three weeks to fi le a response to an affidavit filed by Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

5.India emerged as the second most targeted nation in terms of cyber attacks in the world as 95 Indian entities came under data theft attacks in 2024, cyber intelligence firm Cloud SEK said in a report.

6.Chattogram court denies bail to Hindu monk and former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in a sedition case.

7.The state government will enhance their pension amount. The freedom fighters, who were imprisoned, will get an increased pension of Rs 20,000 a month from earlier Rs 10,000 a month.

8.The state government is set to roll out the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) soon, Health Minister Mukesh Mahaling said here Thursday.

9.In a tragic fallout of an extramarital affair, a man shot his wife dead with an arrow at Handibhanga village under Bamebari police station in Keonjhar district Wednesday night.

10.The Delhi Pollution Control Committee collected over Rs112 crore in environmental compensation between April, 2015 and November 20, 2024, the NGT was recently told.

11.The CBI has booked one of its own deputy SPs posted in the Bank Security and Frauds branch in Mumbai for allegedly taking “undue advantage” from people probed by him, officials said Thursday.

12.Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who had often taken an independent line against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government allies, said Wednesday he was resigning from parliament.

13.Elon Musk, a prominent advocate for the H-1B visa program, is speaking from both personal experience and as a business owner, with his company, Tesla, increasingly relying on foreign talent to fi ll key roles.

14.A court in the southeastern port city of Chattogram Thursday denied bail to Hindu monk and former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in a sedition case.

15.India will provide Sri Lankan Rupees 290 million to develop the Karainagar Boatyard in the Northern Province of the island nation, the Indian High Commission said Thursday.