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1.Indian mixed team of Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara come close to ending India’s 36-year wait for Olympic medal in archery.
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2.As manpower crunch in the Fire Services department has been proving a major impediment in the regular safety audit of clinical and non-clinical establishments in the state, plans have been mooted for appointing third party auditors for the purpose.
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3.The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Friday approved IPS officer YB Khurania’s repatriation to the state with immediate effect.
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4.A day after senior BJD leader and Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Mohanta joining the ruling BJP, the regional party Friday held a meeting apparently to keep its flocks together.
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5.As many as 42,82,945 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) job cards from Odisha were among the 4,43,04,661 that have been deleted since 2019-20 fiscal, Union Minister of State for Rural Development Kamlesh Paswan told the Rajya Sabha, Friday.
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6.Odisha has recorded a collection of Rs2,035.18 crore under State GST (OGST + IGST settlement) during July 2024 against Rs1,628.43 crore collected during the corresponding period last year, registering a growth of 24.98 per cent, official sources said, Friday.
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7.The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has approved the detailed project report of two hydro pumped storage plants (HPSPs) – 600MW Upper Indravati in Odisha’s Kalahandi district and 2,000MW Sharavathy in Karnataka – in record time, the Ministry of Power said Friday.
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8.Over 29,000 hospitals, including 12,625 private ones, have been empanelled under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana as of June 30, Union Health Minister JP Nadda told the Lok Sabha Friday.
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9.A total 374 deaths due to heatstroke and 67,637 cases of suspected heatstroke were reported in the country between March 1 to July 27 Minister of State for Health Anupriya Patel told the Lok Sabha Friday.
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10.Assam has been witnessing a surge in Japanese Encephalitis (JE) cases in the past few months, said officials here Friday. Since April 1 this year, the Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) admitted 90 patients suffering from the deadly flavivirus.
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11.The country is passing through a difficult phase; the economy is in peril, due to the wrong policies of the BJP-led central government. They are hell-bent on making the country’s condition worse than Pakistan said Hemant Soren .
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12.The Supreme Court Friday rejected a batch of pleas seeking a courtmonitored investigation into the electoral bonds scheme while observing that it cannot order a roving inquiry.
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13.Food control is extremely difficult in today’s global market era. Biosensors can quickly, reliably, and affordably detect food contaminants. Patanjali has conducted a new research to detect pesticides and chemicals in the country’s food grains, which has been published by the famous research journal “Microchemical Journal”.
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14.Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair have been selected for an upcoming IndoUS mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced Friday.
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15.More than 100 countries, including India, face serious obstacles in becoming high-income countries in the next few decades, and New Delhi may take nearly 75 years just to reach one-quarter of US income per capita, a World Bank report said.
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16.Britannia Industries Ltd on Friday reported 10.85 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at `504.88 crore for June quarter FY25 helped by volume growth and improved operating margins.
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17.India’s forex reserves dropped by USD 3.471 billion to USD 667.386 billion for the week ended July 26, according to the RBI data released Friday.
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18.Katie Ledecky became the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all-time but the US great had to settle for silver as Australia made sure of the 4x200 metres freestyle gold at the Paris Games Thursday.
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19.National pistol coach Samaresh Jung was a bewildered man within hours of landing back in India from the Paris Olympics after discovering that the house he considered his home for nearly 75 years is an “illegal construction” and he had just 48 hours to vacate it.
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20.Twotime Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu has penned an emotional note on social, calling her loss in the pre-quarterfinals at the Olympic Games in Paris as “hardest” of her career. Sindhu, playing in her third Olympics, lost to China’s He Bing Jiao 21-19, 21-14 in a Round of 15 match.