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1.ISRO successfully launches an Earth observation satellite on board a small satellite launch vehicle, giving a boost to India’s space programme.
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2.Babushaan-starrer Odia movie DAMaN directed by Vishal Mourya and Debi Prasad Lenka won the National Film Award in the Best Odia Feature Film category.
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3.An Egyptian ship, currently anchored at Paradip Port, has been ‘arrested’ following an Orissa High Court order, an official said Friday.
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4.Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray Friday insisted that MVA decide its Chief Ministerial face first rather than going by the logic of which party wins most seats, asserting he would back any candidate announced by the Congress and NCP (SP).
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5.Assembly elections will be held in Jammu and Kashmir after a decade in three phases from September 18, setting the stage for the people of the Union Territory to elect a government after the scrapping of Article 370 in 2019.
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6.The Election Commission also announced that elections to the 90-member Haryana Assembly will be held October 1 and results for both the polls will be declared October 4.
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7.The decade from 2010 to 2020 has been the ‘deadliest’ with an ‘alarming’ spike in deaths due to lightning incidents, according to an analysis of the data shared by the NCRB.
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8.The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for more than a million colleagues nationwide to provide only essential services Saturday, in a protest over the brutal rape and murder of a medic that is set to be the biggest such strike in recent times.
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9.A nurse was raped and murdered while she was returning from a private hospital in Uttarakhand to her home near the Uttar Pradesh border.
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10.The Delhi Rail Division has started a special train “Mosquito Terminator on Wheels” Friday to prevent the mosquito breeding along the rai.
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11.Senior IPS officer Yogesh Bahadur Khurania Friday took charge as Odisha DGP, hours after a Home department notification. Khurania, a 1990-batch officer, succeeds AK Sarangi, who had held the position since December 2023.
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12.Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Congress have decided to boycott the two-day orientation programme for the newlyelected MLAs starting Saturday.
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13.The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to constitute a Special Task Force (STF) to provide suggestions to the government on industrial development and building ‘Swarna Andhra Pradesh’.
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14.The head of India’s markets regulator, Madhabi Puri Buch, continued to earn revenue from a consultancy firm during her sevenyear tenure, potentially breaching rules for regulatory officials, according to public documents reviewed by Reuters.
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15.The Indian paralympic contingent was Friday accorded a grand send-off ahead of the Paris Games scheduled to be held from August 28 to September 8.