1.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Ratikanta Rout a person in connection with the alleged illegal mining of minor minerals in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district.

2.A Tahasildar was caught with suspected ill-gotten cash to the tune of Rs 5 lakh in Odisha’s Sundargarh district on Thursday.

3.Odisha government has doubled the annual uniform allowance for prison personnel and officers. 378 prison officers, ranging from the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons to Assistant Matrons, has been increased fromRs3,000 to Rs6,000.

4.The Odisha government has decided to waive permit fees for battery-operated (electric), methanol- and ethanol-fuelled transport vehicles operating in the state.

5.From cleaning toilets at a nursing home to becoming Odisha’s first woman desludger, Jhunulata Naik of Kataka has turned a life marked by hardship into a story of courage, independence and dignity.

6. The Odisha Higher Education Department has directed all government and non‑government higher education institutions to introduce Multidisciplinary Courses (MDC), Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC), and Value‑Added Courses (VAC) under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020,

7.Odisha has crossed the 1000 mm mark in monsoon rainfall this year, recording 1006.5 mm between June 1 and August 19, 2026, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

8.Odisha’s intensive voter list clean-up enters final phase as claims deadline ends and final rolls set for September 21 publication

9.Observing that children should not be subjected to any kind of pressure, the Supreme Court Thursday stressed the need to find a solution to issues arising from the CBSE policy mandating Class IX students to study three languages.

10.The Madras High Court has dismissed a petition seeking directions to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker and Assembly Secretary to initiate disqualification proceedings against 25 rebel AIADMK legislators who supported the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay May 13.

11.A 40-year-old man was beheaded in a suspected human sacrifice in Balangir district, police said

12.The state government is committed to intensifying the crackdown on illegal drugs and narcotics trade, with an aim to make the state free from illicit drug activities, Law, Works and Excise Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan said Wednesday.

13. India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, Thursday assured that New Delhi would take all necessary steps following the deaths of Bangladeshi nationals in a hotel fire in Kolkata, local media reported. 

14.The Supreme Court Thursday held that police cannot investigate offences under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act. The PCPNDT Act was enacted with the intent to prohibit the use of prenatal diagnostic techniques for determination of the sex of the foetus

15.Alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar Thursday wrote a letter from jail to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and ex-minister Satyender Jain, threatening to expose three more "key scams"