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1.A special module released by the NCERT to mark “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” has held Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Congress and then Viceroy Lord Mountbatten responsible for India’s partition.
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2.The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Odisha is planning to launch a worldwide campaign against the ‘untimely’ Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath in various countries
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3. Over 57 per cent of Odisha Yatri users between October 2024 and July 2025 were women, reflecting a confi dence in Odisha’s public transport ecosystem, official sources said Saturday.
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4.The 17th death anniversary of VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati passed off peacefully in Kandhamal district amidst tightened security arrangements Friday, official said.
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5.Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will pay a two-day visit to Nepal beginning Sunday as part of the preparations for Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s planned trip to India next month.
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6.Imposing fixed timelines on governors and the president to act on bills passed by a state Assembly would amount to one organ of the government assuming powers not vested in it by the Constitution and lead to a “constitutional disorder”, the Centre has told the Supreme Court.
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7.Kolkata Police Saturday stopped the trailer launch of ‘The Bengal Files’, based the 1946 Calcutta Riots, its director Vivek Agnihotri claimed.
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8.Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to return to India Sunday after his historic visit to the International Space Station (ISS) and is eager to share his experiences with friends and colleagues back home as ISRO eyes its maiden human space flight in 2027.
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9.The Supreme Court is slated to hear August 19 a plea fi led by the “sevayat” of the Maa Chandi Devi temple in Haridwar, seeking a stay on an order of the Uttarakhand High Court directing the Badri Kedar Temple Committee to appoint a receiver for overseeing the shrine’s management.
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10. The death toll from the fl ash fl oods in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rose to 327, including over a dozen children, over the last 48 hours, provincial authorities said Saturday.
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11.The UN human rights offi ce said Friday an Israeli plan to build to build thousands of new homes between an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and near East Jerusalem was illegal under international law, and would put nearby Palestinians at risk of forced eviction, which it described as a war crime.
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12.India tablet PC market grew 20 per cent year-on-year in the June 2025 quarter, with Apple cornering almost one-third market share, CyberMedia Research said in a report.
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13.Despite the RBI’s repo rate cut to 5.5 per cent, aimed at easing borrowing costs, India's largest mortgage lender, State Bank of India (SBI), has increased home loan rates by 25 basis points for new borrowers.
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14 Individual users worldwide have spent $2 billion on the ChatGPT mobile app through iOS and Android platforms since the AI application's launch in May 2023, according to a report Saturday.
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15.China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artifi cial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries.