1.The Odisha Assembly session had been summoned from September 22 to October 3, with nine working days on the calendar. It lasted five sittings. Speaker Surama Padhy adjourned the House sine die at 6:54 pm.

2.The Odisha government amassed a record-breaking Rs 1,234.88 crore in revenue from tobacco and pan masala products during the 2024–25 financial year.

3.Over the evaluated two-year timeframe, 45,796 women were reported missing in the state. While police and rescue authorities successfully traced and recovered 30,171 of them, nearly 15,000 women remain unaccounted for.

4.The water level of the Hirakud reservoir stood at 629.52 feet against its full capacity of 630 feet. Out of this total discharge, 4,92,060 cusecs are being released directly through the 30 sluice gates into the Mahanadi.

5.Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to chair a high-level meeting on October 1 to address the long-standing Mahanadi River water-sharing dispute.

6.The collegium also recommended the name of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, as a judge of the top court.

7.Seventy-four more coastal villages in Odisha were Monday declared "tsunami ready" under a UNESCO-IOC programme, taking the total number of such villages in the state to 100.

8.Supreme Court Monday noted that states and Union territories have a massive outstanding balance of Rs 20,000 crore to recover towards unpaid traffic e-challans and suggested linking such challans to electricity bills to recover the amount.

9.The Odisha government borrowed Rs 89,353 crore from different sources and repaid pending loans worth Rs 58,565 crore during the past two-and-a-half years, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi informed the assembly Monday.

10.As many as 71,769 cases of crimes against women were registered at different police stations across Odisha between June 2024 and July 2026.

11.About 15 percent of Odisha's sanctioned IAS posts are vacant, with 36 of the 248 sanctioned posts remaining unfilled, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said in a written reply in the Assembly Monday.

12.The Supreme Court Monday directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to extend to Class VI students the same relaxation in implementing the revised three-language formula that has already been granted to students of Classes VII, VIII and IX.

13.The Supreme Court Collegium Monday recommended the elevation of Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal, Delhi High Court Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, and Telangana High Court Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh as judges of the apex court.

14.The state’s per capita debt burden currently stands at Rs 26,037.70, while its total debt is projected to rise to Rs 1,48,187.82 crore by March 31, 2027, the Odisha Assembly was informed Monday.

15.A Delhi court Monday issued notice on the appeal filed by four women  wrestlers against a magistrate's verdict acquitting former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a sexual harassment case.