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1.In order to address fi nancial fraud, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has directed banks and payment apps to halt all peer-to-peer (P2P) "collect requests" from October 1.
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2.The State Bank of India (SBI) will revise Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) charges for retail customers from August 15. All customers will continue to receive free online IMPS transfers up to `25,000 under the new arrangement.
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3.The RBI will introduce a new mechanism from October 4 for clearance of cheques within hours of being presented to banks, reducing the current time period of up to two working days.
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4.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday launched the ‘MLA LAD Web Portal’, aimed at making the administrative process simpler and time-efficient.
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5.Internationally acclaimed writer-director Biswanath Rath has created history by becoming the first Odia filmmaker to win 600 international film festival accolades, including 184 awards, over a career spanning 13 years.
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6.The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Wednesday slammed the state government for prioritising political optics over public welfare by approving Rs30,000 crore to repaint all government buildings saffron.
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7. Researchers at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela have uncovered how natural sugar-like molecules in the human body can alter the behaviour of Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (BMP2), a protein responsible for bone formation and repair, according to officials.
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8. In a major push to promote the Bengali film industry, the West Bengal government Wednesday made it mandatory for all cinema halls across the state to screen regional movies during prime time in each of their screens on all days, an official said.
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9.The records of the voters' lists of around a hundred polling booths in West Bengal, post the last Special Intensive Revision carried out by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in 2002, are not available.
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10.The Supreme Court has overturned the election of the Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat Buana Lakhu in Haryana’s Panipat district after a court-monitored recount found the appellant securing the highest number of votes and to issue a notifi cation within two days declaring the appellant, Mohit Kumar, elected, and allowing him to assume office immediately.
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11.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said he had a unique experience of having tea with some “dead” voters from Bihar and thanked the Election Commission for it.
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12.Veteran Bengali actor Basanti Chatterjee, who featured in over 100 films, including critically acclaimed movies like 'Thagini' and 'Manjari Opera', died at her residence here, family members said.
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13.Human-street dog interactions in India are predominantly uneventful with 82 per cent of observed encounters involving approachable or neutral behaviour, according to a research on street dogs and public health by the University of Edinburgh. Data from the research show that only 2 per cent of human-street dog interactions.
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14.The Bihar government Wednesday announced a two-fold increase in the pension amount for ‘JP Senanis', political activists who had been imprisoned during the Emergency for supporting socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan's movement.
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15.US President Donald Trump was “very clear” in a meeting Wednesday with European leaders that the US wants to achieve a ceasefire at the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
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16.America's relationship with both India and Pakistan is “good”, the US State Department has said, asserting that the diplomats are "committed to both nations".
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17.Israel's military pounded Gaza City Wednesday prior to a planned takeover, with another 123 people killed in the last day according to the Gaza health ministry, while militant group Hamas held further talks with Egyptian mediators.
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18.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with INDIA bloc leaders in Bihar will embark on a 'Vote Adhikar Yatra' across the state starting August 17 against the revision of electoral rolls and to make the "battle against vote chori" a mass movement, the party said Wednesday.
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19.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has conducted a series of surprise inspections in 10 schools across six states and Union Territories (UTs) to check for violations of norms, offi cials said Wednesday.
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20.The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has made history by becoming the fi rst railway zone in the country to achieve 100 million tonnes (MT) of freight loading in just 134 days, the fastest among all 17 railway zones in India.