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1.The apex court, however, made it clear that states have to make sub-classification on the basis of ‘quantifiable and demonstrable data’ of backwardness and representation in government jobs and not on ‘whims’ and as a matter of ‘political expediency.
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2.Opposition leaders Thursday took swipe at the Modi government over water leakage in a lobby of the new Parliament building and hailed the ‘sturdy’ old Parliament building.
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3.A local court here Thursday awarded death penalty to a man for stabbing his wife to death and slitting the throat of his minor daughter in the City in 2022.
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4.The Supreme Court asked Thursday while expressing surprise over the appointment of some employees in the Railways on the basis of forged documents.
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5.As per National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), 68.5 per cent of infants in Odisha are breastfed within the first hour of birth, which is significantly higher than the national average of 41.8 per cent.
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6.Global state-of-the-art models, featuring in the UN’s IPCC reports on climate change, consistently underestimate rainfall trends in northwestern India by about 70 per cent, according to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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7.Eight Indians working in the Russian armed forces have died and 12 others already left the military, the government said in the Rajya Sabha Thursday.
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8.As many as 109 women judges are serving in the higher judiciary, including three in the Supreme Court, the government informed the Rajya Sabha Thursday.
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9.Central universities can conduct their own entrance exams or admit students on the basis of marks in the qualifying exam if seats remain vacant in undergraduate and postgraduate courses after admissions through CUET, the UGC announced Thursday.
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10.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Thursday said 97.92 per cent of the `2000 denomination banknotes have returned to the banking system, and only `7,409 crore worth of the withdrawn notes are still with the public.
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11.GST collections in July rose 10.3 per cent to over `1.82 lakh crore, mainly driven by domestic transactions in goods and services, according to official data released Thursday.
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12.Eighteen Jharkhand BJP MLAs were Thursday suspended from the assembly for a day and subsequently removed by marshals after they refused to leave the House.
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13. In bizarre incident, a woman from Chhattisgarh was swept away for over 50 km in the Mahanadi river with shackles in her legs before she was rescued by fishermen near Palsada village under Lakhanpur block in Jharsuguda district, Thursday.
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14. A local court Thursday sentenced 14 persons to life imprisonment after convicting them in the murder of a person, and murderous attack on others, over past enmity during Holi festival in 2009.
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15.On an empty stomach and with his heart racing, Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale kept his composure to stage a remarkable comeback and help the country claim its first ever Olympic bronze in the 50m rifle 3 positions event here Thursday.