1.Toll gates in the state will identify and penalise the vehicles from February 1 if they don’t possess valid insurance documents with them, the state transport authority (STA) informed Saturday.

2.The Odisha Police Recruitment Board has released a detailed notification for the Combined Police Service Examination. This drive aims to fill various posts, including Sub-Inspector (SI), Station Officer, and Assistant Jailor. The official notification was issued Friday.

3.A Kolkata court Saturday declared Sanjay Roy ‘guilty’ of raping and murdering an on-duty doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a heinous crime that sparked nationwide outrage and prolonged protests.

4.A team of US scientists has uncovered how a molecule found on certain bacteria may drive blood clotting in sepsis -- a life-threatening condition that causes about eight million deaths per year

5.A total of 242 people in Odisha Saturday got property cards under the SVAMITVA scheme, aimed at bolstering economic activities and help in poverty alleviation. These were among the 65 lakh property cards distributed across the country by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

6.President of the University of Cincinnati, USA Neville G Pinto was conferred the prestigious KISS Lifetime Achievement Award during his visit to the KISS campus recently.

7.The 7th Delhi Assembly convened for just 74 days over its five-year term, the lowest number compared to all previous assemblies, according to a report by the think tank PRS Legislative Research.

8. The AAP Saturday screened a trailer of its controversial documentary film ‘Unbreakable’ at its office and vowed to take the ‘banned’ film to every Delhiite to expose the alleged conspiracy of the BJP and the Delhi Police to stop its private screening.

9.Union Home Minister Amit Shah has ordered the constitution of an inter-ministerial team to visit a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district to ascertain the causes of deaths in three incidents in the past six weeks.

10.The Centre has proposed a meeting with the protesting farmers February 14 in Chandigarh to discuss their demands, a senior official of the Union government said Saturday.

11.The Uttarakhand Waqf Board has set up the state's fi rst modern madrasa offering general education under the NCERT curriculum with Sanskrit as an optional subject besides Arabic.

12.Deposed Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said she and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana escaped death by just 20-25 minutes August 5 last year when her Awami League government was toppled in a student-led mass uprising.

13.The government, in the ensuing Budget session of Parliament, is likely to introduce a new income tax bill which seeks to simplify the current I-T law, make it comprehensible and reduce the number of pages by about 60 per cent.

14.India's data transmission capacity is expected to grow four times with the activation of new submarine cables due in 2025 that connect the country to several key markets of the world, Trai Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti said.

15.Rohit Sharma seems to have reservations about certain clauses in the 10-point disciplinary guidelines prepared by the BCCI at the behest of head coach Gautam Gambhir and India skipper is set to discuss the issue with the Board secretary Devajit Saikia.