1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday informed the Assembly that 2,994 rape and 7,382 molestation cases were reported in the state last year.

2.The Supreme Court Monday said discrimination against women, more particularly against the girl child, is widely prevalent across several parts of the country and female foeticide is a crude manifestation of this social malady.

3.Six armed men allegedly broke into a house in Nabarangpur district in the early hours of Sunday and decamped with Rs70 lakh in cash and gold ornaments worth several lakhs, police said.

4.The Odisha government has deported 73 of the 77 Bangladeshi infiltrators residing illegally in various parts of the state.

5. AIIMS-Bhubaneswar established a comprehensive Liver Transplant Programme and commissioned a state-of-the-art Surgical Robotic System.

6.According to the Chief Minister, Odisha has a sanctioned strength of 248 IAS officers, out of which 42 posts are currently vacant. In the IPS cadre, 195 posts have been sanctioned, with 67 lying vacant. Similarly, in the Indian Forest Service (IFS), out of 141 sanctioned posts, 66 are vacant.

7.The General Administration & Public Grievances department has extended the deadline for submission of annual property statements for the year 2025 by state government employees till March 31.

8.Five tankers loaded with petrol and diesel were gutted in a major fi re Monday evening in Dhenkanal district.

9.The government Monday unveiled the country’s first counter-terrorism policy, “Prahaar”, setting out a multi-layered strategy based on “zero tolerance”, intelligence-led prevention and disruption of extremist violence that aims to deny terrorists, their financiers and supporters access to funds, weapons and safe havens.

10.The Supreme Court Monday expunged critical observations of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against a special trial court judge, saying the “hasty conclusion” accusing the judge of "intellectual dishonesty” was “totally unwarranted”.

11.Former BJP MP Sukhbir Singh Jaunpuria was at the centre of a raging controversy with a purported video showing him taking back a blanket from a Muslim woman during an event in Tonk after asking her to identify her religion.

12.Eight more cheetahs from Africa will be airlifted to Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh February 28, taking the number of these big cats in India to 46.

13.Bharti Airtel will invest Rs 200 billion ($2.2 billion) in its fi nancial arm over the next few years, India's secondlargest mobile carrier by number of users said Monday, as it steps up its push into digital lending.

14.All seven people on board an air ambulance were killed when the aircraft crashed near Simaria in Jharkhand's Chatra district on Monday evening.

15.Amid strained ties with the opposition parties, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday constituted Parliamentary Friendship Groups with more than 60 countries.

16. Indian exports to the US will attract an additional 10 per cent tariff against 25 per cent currently for 150 days starting Tuesday after the American Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration's sweeping tariffs.