1.India has approved its first dengue vaccine, QDENGA, developed by Japanese drugmaker Takeda, marking a major milestone in the country’s fight against the mosquito‑borne disease.

2.The Odisha government on Monday withdrew the powers of Principals of  government colleges and teacher education institutions to appoint non-teaching staff.

3.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of two devotees who lost their lives during the Rath Yatra in Odisha’s Puri city on July 16.

4.Smita Pani, a 2020-batch IAS officer, has been appointed as the MD, OSMCL. She was earlier working in the GA&PG Department.  

5.The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday condemned the attack on a commercial vessel departing from Odesa port in Ukraine in which four Indian nationals have lost their lives and one remains in a critical condition. 

6.Over 70 people were detained and multiple FIRs registered by the Delhi Police on Monday in the aftermath of violent, unruly protests by CJP activists and their political supporters on Parliament Street .

 7.Seven persons were killed after a fresh landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in J&K’s Poonch district on Monday.

8.The Supreme Court on Monday said it would direct the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to implement the Orissa High Court's ruling requiring an explicit "opt-out" option in the consent form for generation of APAAR (Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry) IDs.

9.The Higher Education Department released the much-awaited 2nd selection merit list for Phase-I UG (Degree +3) admissions for the academic year 2026-27. The list, published at 2:00 PM, has selected 41,578 students in the second round.

10.The Odisha government has now made it clear: the new spellings(Historic Overhaul of English Spellings for 64 Administrative Units) must be used without delay in every sphere of official functioning.

11.The Department of School and Mass Education has launched a two‑phase orientation workshop for newly recruited Post Graduate Teachers (PGTs) in Sanskrit and Economics.

12.The Odisha Government has directed all district administrations to promote complex fertilisers as substitutes for DAP and Ammonium Sulphate as an alternative to Urea.

13.The Centre on Monday told Parliament that it has not received any widespread or substantiated complaints linking E20 (20% ethanol-blended) petrol to engine failures, corrosion, fuel pump damage or other major vehicle performance issues.

14.The Centre on Monday initiated its first formal dialogue with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) as Union Minister JP Nadda met two representatives of the organisation amid its high-profile ‘Chalo Sansad’ march in New Delhi.

India women’s hockey chief coach Harendra Singh stepped down from his role on Monday, citing personal reasons.