1.GST evasion of `7.08 lakh crore has been detected by tax offi cials in 91,370 cases during the last five financial years.
2.The state government Monday issued a notifi cation regarding the establishment of 11 additional District Judge Courts to ensure speedy delivery of justice to the public.
3.Jharkand Mukti Morcha (JMM) founder Shibu Soren, the veteran tribal leader who played a key role in Jharkhand’s creation, breathed his last Monday. He was 81.
4.Under Transport Electrification Progress, Odisha, with a score of 56, stands as a ‘performer’. “Odisha scored 97 out of 100 in private EV adoption. Odisha, with IEMI score of 49 and rank 7, stands as an ‘aspirant’.
5.Unidentifi ed assailants allegedly snatched a gold chain from Mayiladuthurai (Tamil Nadu) MP R Sudha in the diplomatic enclave of Chanakyapuri here while she was out on a morning walk Monday, police said.
6.Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo inaugurated the state’s first Mobile Migrant Resource Centre (MMRC) at Krushi Bhavan here Monday.
7.The Odisha High Court has directed the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to fi le an affi - davit within seven days regarding the illegal dumping yard located on the Sainik School campus in Gadakana — a matter that has long troubled local residents due to environmental and health hazards.
8.Vigilance sleuths Monday arrested Boudh MVI Golap Chandra Hansdah for possessing disproportionate assets (DA) to the tune of 630 per cent of his known sources of income, offi - cial sources said.
9.With the longest coastline of 2,340 kilometers, Gujarat has ranked second in the country in the marine fish production and is expected to consolidate its position further, under the guidance of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. The average annual fish production figure in Gujarat in the last 4 years has been 8.56 lakh metric tonnes. In 2023-24
10. India pulled off an incredible six-run victory over England in the seesawing fi fth and fi nal Test here Monday to secure a creditable 2-2 draw in a blockbuster series which ebbed and fl owed over weeks of slugfest between the two cricketing powerhouses
1.Police Sunday arrested vice-president of BSE Nihar Ranjan Mohanty for his alleged involvement in the question paper leak of Special OTET-2025, a senior officer said.
2.Six migrant workers from Odisha were killed in AP quarry and at least nine others sustained grievous injured after a massive granite rock fell on them at a quarry in Bapatla district Sunday.
3.Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kaling Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) felicitated 11 athletes from the university who represented India in various sporting events and won medals at the recently concluded World University Games (WUG) 2025 in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany.
4.Vigilance sleuths Sunday detected 44 plots, 1kg gold, deposits worth Rs1.34 crore and other valuable items allegedly in the possession of a state government employee working as a motor vehicle inspector (MVI) in Boudh district.
5.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bangalore and inaugurate the Yellow Line Metro August 10.
6.The Election Commission Sunday asked RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to “hand over for investigation” a voter ID card that he claimed to be in possession of despite having been “not issued offi cially”.
7.A government-appointed panel has warned that unscientifi c mining in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district is destabilising slopes, threatening villages and agriculture, besides disrupting water sources in the fragile Himalayan region.
8.New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday rocked Syria at two distinct fl ashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefi re and calling into question the ability of the transitional government to exert its authority across the whole country.
9.An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fi re, Russian offi cials said Sunday,
10.India's annual oil import bill could rise by $9-11 billion if the country is compelled to move away from Russian crude in response to US threats of additional tariffs or penalties on Indian exports, analysts said.
11.In a tragic incident, four senior Indian-origin persons were killed in a car crash in West Virginia, authorities said Sunday.
12.Sri Lanka received a total of 200,244 tourists in July 2025, with Indian travellers accounting for the largest share, local media reported Sunday.
13.Moderate to heavy rains continued to lash parts of Himachal Pradesh, resulting in the closure of 297 roads, including one national highway Sunday, offi cials said
14.Opposition INDIA bloc leaders are likely to have a dinner meeting August 7 to discuss strategy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue, sources said Sunday.
15.Prisoner number 15528, Prajwal Revanna, appeared visibly stressed and wept spending the fi rst night in the jail after being sentenced to life in a rape case Saturday, authorities have said.
1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi e said that over 34 lakh farmers received the 20th instalment of fi nancial assistance under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme.
2.Odisha and Chhattisgarh have agreed for an amicable settlement, prompting the Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal (MWDT) to grant additional time for negotiations.
3.Posters allegedly sponsored by the Ahmedabad traffi c police for a safety campaign have stirred up a controversy, as some of them urged women to stay home to avoid getting raped.
4.A few hours after the death of the 15-year-old girl from Puri district’s Balanga at AIIMS, Delhi, Odisha Police Saturday claimed that no other person was involved in the incident.
5.The Centre has approved the appointment of 2016-batch Odisha cadre IPS offi cer Sagarika Nath as Superintendent of Police (SP) in National Investigation Agency (NIA), offi cial sources said Saturday.
6.Renowned actor and Digapahandi MLA Sidhant Mohapatra’s mother, Kanak Mohapatra, passed away Saturday at her residence at the age of 87.
7.The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Saturday suspended Ranpur NAC chairperson Rangeen Mohanty for her involvement in antiparty activities, party sources said.
8. The Madhya Pradesh police department’s fortnight-long anti-drug campaign has earned a place in the World Book of Records, with state Director General of Police (DGP) Kailash Makwana getting an invitation to attend a felicitation event in British Parliament, officials said.
9.The Women Safety Wing, Telangana has rescued 7,678 children, including 529 girls, across the state under the Operation Muskaan in the month of July.
10.The first phase of a massive eviction drive to clear alleged encroachments from almost 11,000 bighas (nearly 1,500 hectares) of forest land in Assam's Golaghat district concluded.
11. Two Red Panda cubs were born in the Himalayan Zoological Park (HZP), Bulbuley near Gangtok, after seven years, an official statement said.
12.India Saturday received the last of its 16 Airbus C-295 military transport aircraft from Spain.
13.JSW Cement, part of Sajjan Jindal-promoted diversified JSW Group, is set to launch its truncated Rs3,600-crore initial public offering (IPO) August 7. The total size of the issue, however, is lower than the earlier proposed issue of up to Rs4,000 crore.
14.RBI is expected to cut 25 bps in repo rates in light of soft inflation and global uncertainties, aiming to reinforce growth momentum while it has a policy window, a report said Saturday.
15.Former Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has vacated the offi cial residence of the head of the judiciary in the national capital.
1.The election for the post of Vice President will be held September 9.
2.Odisha tops the nation in sickle cell disease incidence, with a whopping 96,484 cases registered in the sickle cell portal.
3.Hindi cinema dominated the 71st National Film Awards Friday with top star Shah Rukh Khan winning his career’s fi rst best actor award for Jawan alongside Vikrant Massey for 12th Fail, which was named the best feature film.
4.Pushkara, a powerful cinematic adaptation of the Odia novel Nadabindu, has been named Best Odia Film at the 71st National Film Awards, announced Friday.
5.Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world’s first carbon-neutral state
6.The farmer registration process for procuring Kharif season paddy has started from July 19 and will continue till August 20.
7.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday conducted searches against an Odisha-based company that allegedly ran a “fake” bank guarantee issuance racket for business groups, including providing an alleged `68 crore such assurance for a Reliance Group company, offi cial sources said.
8. The 17th edition of Isha Gramotsavam, India’s largest rural sports festival, will be held across six states starting August 10 in Mysore.
9.East Coast Railway (ECoR) has launched a fortnight-long ‘Swachhata Abhiyan’ from August 1 to 15, with a focus on ensuring cleanliness across railway stations, trains, offi ces, workshops, maintenance depots, hospitals, and residential areas under its jurisdiction.
10.Police Friday issued a notice to a peon asking him to clarify his alleged role in serving urine instead of drinking water to a newly appointed junior engineer at a government department in Gajapati district, an officer said.
11. The Supreme Court has fl agged the ecological imbalance in Himachal Pradesh and cautioned that the entire state may "vanish in thin air" if the situation does not change.
12.The Manipur government Friday officially launched its e-gazette portal in a move aimed at promoting digital governance and enhancing public access to official information, a statement said.
13.The Election Commission Friday came out with the much-anticipated 'draft electoral rolls' in Bihar, enlisting 7.24 crore voters but knocking off more than 65 lakh names, claiming that most of the persons concerned had died or migrated.
14.The Punjab and Haryana High Court Friday dismissed a plea of BJP MP Kangana Ranaut seeking quashing of a defamation complaint against her and the summoning order by a court in Bathinda.
15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Assam September 8 to inaugurate the year-long birth centenary celebrations of Bhupen Hazarika, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Friday
1.Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam (OPS)-led AIADMK Cadres Rights Retrieval Committee Thursday walked out of the BJP-led NDA coalition, a year after joining the bloc.
2.US President Donald Trump once again mounted a sharp attack on India and Russia for their close ties and said that the two countries can take their ‘dead economies down together’.
3.Nearly 17 years after a blast in Malegaon town of north Maharashtra acquitted all the seven accused, including former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Prasad Purohit, noting there was ‘no reliable and cogent evidence’ against them.
4.A new world record for the longest distance lightning fl ash was declared Thursday - a megafl ash that stretched for 829 kilometres (515 miles) across the United States.
5.In a step toward transparent and consumer-centric governance, the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) has initiated a suo motu proceeding to review the performance of the Tata Power-managed power distribution companies (Discoms) operating across Odisha.
6.In a gesture of gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 75th birthday, the state government said it will plant 75 lakh saplings across Odisha September 17, under ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign.
7.The OAS officer, Sarthak Sourav Mohapatra, has been booked under Section 85 (cruelty), 351 (2) (criminal intimidation) and 3(5) (criminal act by several persons with common intention) of BNS, the police said.
8.In a move aimed at supporting students facing emotional distress and preventing campus tragedies, IIT Kharagpur is considering installing smaller ceiling fans in hostel rooms to make them unusable for self-harm.
9.Telangana Assembly speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar Thursday said he will consult legal experts once he receives the Supreme Court order copy on the issue of disqualification of BRS MLAs who switched loyalties to the ruling Congress and decide the future course of action.
10.Pramilatai Medhe, former pramukh sanchalika (chief) of Rashtra Sevika Samiti, the women’s wing of RSS, passed away in Nagpur.
11.The Union Cabinet Thursday approved a Rs2,000 crore grant-in-aid to National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) for four years, a move that will help the organisation mobilise more funds for lending to cooperatives.
12.The Election Commission Thursday said it has fi nalised the Electoral College for the vice presidential election, necessitated due to the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar from the post.
13.In a rare coincidence and sheer determination as well, a 49-year-old physiotherapist and her daughter from Tamil Nadu cleared the NEET together.
14.Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down Thursday, following investigations into his business dealings that prompted protests calling for his resignation.
15.The Centre's fi scal defi cit stood at 17.9 per cent of the full-year target at the end of June, according to data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) Thursday.