1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi unveiled a transformative industrial roadmap for the district, formally declaring Keonjhar as Odisha’s third Steel City after Rourkela and Jajpur-Kalinganagar.

2.Odisha Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan today informed the Assembly that Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has received 13,358 public grievances over the past one and a half years, out of which 12,432 have been resolved.

3.State-owned National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) is aiming to start its Pottangi bauxite mines in Odisha by June next year.

4.Odisha is set to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the upcoming 6-lane greenfield Raipur–Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor, which will cut travel time between the two terminal cities from 12 hours to just 5 hours once completed in December 2026.

5.Odisha Public Library Conference (OPLC) 2025 concluded here Sunday with a strong collective commitment to establish modern digital public libraries in every panchayat of Odisha.

6.Just Rights for Children (JRC) has announced an intensive intervention in 25 districts of Odisha which are identified as high-prevalence areas under the National Family Health Survey V (2019-21). JRC targets to make one lakh villages in the country child marriage free by 202

7.West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose Sunday asserted that the state was “ready to end religious arrogance”, while pointing out at “something witnessed in Murshidabad a day before”.

8.Having spent eight years in prison after being arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl, a 56-yearold man has been acquitted by the trial court citing “scanty evidence”.

9.The Telangana government Sunday said it has decided to name the upcoming greenfield radial road at the proposed RRR in honour of the late industrialist Ratan Tata.

10.IndiGo has processed refunds totalling Rs610 crore so far against cancelled or severely delayed flights, and delivered 3,000 pieces of baggage to passengers across the country as of Saturday.

11.Foreign investors have pulled out Rs 11,820 crore ($1.3 billion) from Indian equities in the first week of this month, primarily driven by the sharp depreciation of the rupee.

12.A Kerala court on Monday acquitted actor Dileep over the abduction and rape of an actress in 2017.

13.A nightclub teeming with revellers in North Goa turned into a death trap around midnight as a massive fire tore through it, claiming 25 lives, including five tourists

14.IndiGo has been facing heat from both the government and the passengers for cancelling hundreds of flights since December 2, citing regulatory changes in the pilots' flight duty and regulations norms.

15.Young Simranpreet Kaur Brar overcame a challenging fi eld to win the women's 25m pistol gold while men's 50m rifl e 3-position exponent Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar bagged a silver on his ISSF World Cup Final debut here Sunday.