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1.Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed Wednesday morning in a crash of a Jaguar trainer aircraft near Churu in Rajasthan.
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2The state government has reintroduced the ‘pass-fail system’ in Class V and VIII annual examinations from the current academic year, an official notification said Wednesday.
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3.Eleven persons, including two siblings, were killed and nine others rescued, some of them with injuries, after multiple vehicles plunged into the Mahisagar river when a portion of a fourdecade-old bridge collapsed in Vadodara district .
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4.Vehicular movement in different parts of Odisha, including the capital, was affected Wednesday due to strike by trade unions and drivers’ associations.
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5.A local court here Wednesday granted bail to BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan, who was arrested in a case involving the physical assault of a senior Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) offi cer in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) .
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6.Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will address a mega rally in Bhubaneswar July 11, following which they will hold closed-door meetings with leaders of the party’s state unit.
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7.Senior IPS officer Sanjeeb Panda was Wednesday posted as the Additional Director General (ADG), Anti-Naxal Operations.
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8.The BJP government in the state will soon expand its Council of Ministers, the party’s state president Manmohan Samal said .
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9.Bhubaneswar. The CID of Odisha Police arrested a man from Punjab on the charge of defrauding a person of Rs7.50 crore in Koraput district on the pretext of higher return in a fake IPO scheme.
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10.Odisha was recognised as the best state for agriculture and received the Agriculture Leadership Award from the Agriculture Today Group .
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11.In a move to strengthen urban sanitation, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently inaugurated three modern public toilets at key City locations.
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12.Guwahati,Human-elephant conflicts in Assam have claimed over 1,400 lives during 2000-2023, while 1,209 pachyderms died in the state during the same period with majority 626 fatalities due to anthropogenic activities, a Wildlife Institute of India (WII) report has said.
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13.To further strengthen the fight against tuberculosis, the Union Health Ministry will soon procure 1,500 more handheld X-ray machines to facilitate large-scale screening and early detection of cases, offi cial sources said.
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14.The Supreme Court has initiated a suo motu case over the issue of investigation agencies summoning lawyers who offer opinion or represent parties in cases to examine if they can be put to notice
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15.India's space regulator INSPACe has granted a licence to Elon Muskrun Starlink to offer spacebased internet services in the country.