1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday announced that smart devices will be installed in all buses as part of the state government’s effort to ensure road safety and reduce accidents.

2.Four Army personnel were killed and one injured when their vehicle fell into a gorge in Bandipora district of J&K, officials said Saturday

3.Eminent physicist Rajagopala Chidambaram, who played a key role in the nuclear tests of 1974 and 1998, passed away Saturday, according to the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). He was 88.

4.Roughly a fourth of the Indian population has access to a rehabilitation centre within an hour of experiencing an ischaemic stroke -- caused when a blood clot affects supply to the brain, a study has found.

5.The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) is all set to organise the Ekamra Utsav from January 5 to January 16, said BDA vice chairman N Thirumala Naik here, Saturday.

6.The Supreme Court has stressed on the need of hologram-based colour-coded stickers for vehicles to tackle air pollution, saying it was considering to make it mandatory in states and Union Territories beyond the National Capital Region.

7.Even under ambitious climate policies, lower-income countries would see consumer food prices rise 2.45 times by 2050 while producer prices would rise 3.3 times, a study has found.

8.US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected to the chamber’s top job Friday by a razor-thin margin that highlighted potential fi ssures among President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans on Capitol Hill.

9.HDFC Bank saw quarter-on-quarter deposit growth outpace loan growth in the three months to December 31, the country's biggest private lender said Saturday.

10.Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Delhi section of the Namo Bharat corridor between Ashok Nagar and Sahibabad.

11.The Indus valley script remains an unsolved riddle for over a century, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said here on Sunday and announced a prize of US dollar 1 million to those who decipher it.

12.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated a 13-kilometre stretch of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat corridor between Sahibabad and New Ashok Nagar, fulfilling the dream of millions of residents of the National Capital Region.

13.An investigation was started after a drone was spotted over the revered Jagannath temple in Puri in the early hours of Sunday, police said.

14.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of two persons killed by looters during a dacoity attempt in Odisha’s Jajpur district.

15.A businessman was allegedly kidnapped near Kolab Bridge under Boipariguda police limits in Odisha's Koraput district.