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1.Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of starting a fire at the dormant Russianoccupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
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2.Neeraj Chopra will not return to India now as he has left for Germany to take medical advice for surgery.
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3.The government is likely to reconsider the contentious provisions of the Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill that had raised concerns among online content creators as it sought to club them with OTT or digital news broadcasters.
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4.Odisha won’t have anyone without land or housing after five years, Revenue and Disaster Management (R&DM) Minister Suresh Pujari said here Monday.
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5.Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi left Monday evening for a three-day visit to Delhi. He will return August 14 ahead of the Independence Day functions in the state.
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6.Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released Monday the India Rankings 2024, which implements the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) drafted for this purpose by the Ministry of Education in 2015.
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7.Leader of Opposition (LoP) Naveen Patnaik Monday urged Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh to ensure continued support for the UNESCO Kalinga Prize, a prestigious international science award.
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8.Bitti Hotra Mohanti, who was convicted for raping a German woman, died at AIIMSBhubaneswar, hospital sources said Monday.
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9.The Kolkata bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a penalty of over Rs 6 crore over mining firm Serajuddin and Co towards environmental loss at its Balda iron ore mines in Joda mining division of Keonjhar district.
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10.The chairperson of Bhawanipatna Municipality in Kalahandi district, Sanjukta Behera, Monday lost the no-confidence motion moved by the councillors. The infighting within BJD and dissatisfaction with her work led to all 20 votes in favour of the motion.
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11.The Kerala Bank, a consolidation of district cooperative banks in the state, announced Monday that it would waive loans of those impacted by the devastating landslides of July 30 in Wayanad.
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12.The Delhi High Court Monday granted interim protection from arrest till August 21 to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, who has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits.
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13.At least seven people, including six women, were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddheshwar Nath Temple in this district of Bihar, an official said Monday.
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14.Sex ratio in India is expected to improve to 952 women per 1000 men by 2036 from 943 in 2011, according to a report ‘Women and Men in India 2023’ released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Monday.
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15.Retail inflation declined to a five-year low of 3.54 per cent in July mainly on account of subdued prices of food items, and base effect, according to official data released Monday.