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1.Common use items from roti to hair oil, ice creams and TVs will cost less, while tax incidence on personal health and life insurance will be brought down to nil after the all-powerful GST Council Wednesday approved a complete overhaul of the tangled Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.
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2.President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable as the country’s military displayed for the first time some of its brand-new weapons, including hypersonic, laser and long-range ballistic missiles.
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3.The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fi ne on the state government for failing to submit a report of Odisha Remote Sensing Application Centre (ORSAC) in connection with a case related to rampant illegal mining operations in Gondia area of Dhenkanal district, offi cial sources said Wednesday.
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4.In a bid to ensure smooth management of Srimandir affairs, the Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee (SJTMC) Wednesday constituted 14 sub-committees, including one for suggesting security measures at the 12th century shrine, official sources said.
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5.Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati Wednesday urged the Fire and Emergency Services department to carry out preventive fire audits in all Higher Education institutions, with special focus on those having large auditoriums.
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6.Law, Works and Excise Minister Prithviraj Harichandan Wednesday assured that ongoing road repair works in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar will be completed by September 20, ahead of the Puja season.
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7.Executive Vice President – Marketing and Exports at ITC Ltd Karunesh Bajaj was unanimously elected as the Chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the year 2025-2026.
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8.The Odisha Parents’ Federation (OPF) has expressed serious concern over recurring safety lapses in Tribal Residential Welfare (TRW) schools across the state, particularly affecting girl students.
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9.A 160-year-old sweet shop in this western Odisha town is seeking geographical indication (GI) tag for ‘Sarsatia’, a rare dessert made from ‘ganjer’ tree resin that the owner Prabhu Lal claims is available nowhere else in the country. Prabhu Lal, 65, known locally as Minchu kaka, represents the third generation running this legacy business established by his grandfather Beni Madhav in 1866.
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10.The Maharashtra cabinet Wednesday gave its approval to amend laws that will allow increasing the maximum daily working hours for private sector employees from the present nine to 10 hours.
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11.The downpour across north India showed no signs of easing Wednesday as a rain-triggered landslide and structural collapse claimed four lives in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, pummelled regions already on edge and forced the suspension of classes, fl ights, trains and even cremations.
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12.Twenty-one monitoring stations, including one in Delhi, have reported rivers in "severe fl ood situation," while 33 others are fl owing above the normal level, the Central Water Commission (CWC) said Wednesday.
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13.After spending more than 17 years behind bars, gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli Wednesday walked out of the Nagpur Central Jail with the Supreme Court last week granting him bail in a 2007 murder case, officials said.
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14.A day after her suspension from KCRled BRS, senior leader K Kavitha Wednesday announced her resignation from the party and trained her guns against cousin and former minister T Harish Rao.
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15.Life insurance and health insurance premium would come down as such products are now exempt from Goods and Services Tax (GST).