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1.The election for the post of Vice President will be held September 9.
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2.Odisha tops the nation in sickle cell disease incidence, with a whopping 96,484 cases registered in the sickle cell portal.
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3.Hindi cinema dominated the 71st National Film Awards Friday with top star Shah Rukh Khan winning his career’s fi rst best actor award for Jawan alongside Vikrant Massey for 12th Fail, which was named the best feature film.
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4.Pushkara, a powerful cinematic adaptation of the Odia novel Nadabindu, has been named Best Odia Film at the 71st National Film Awards, announced Friday.
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5.Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world’s first carbon-neutral state
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6.The farmer registration process for procuring Kharif season paddy has started from July 19 and will continue till August 20.
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7.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday conducted searches against an Odisha-based company that allegedly ran a “fake” bank guarantee issuance racket for business groups, including providing an alleged `68 crore such assurance for a Reliance Group company, offi cial sources said.
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8. The 17th edition of Isha Gramotsavam, India’s largest rural sports festival, will be held across six states starting August 10 in Mysore.
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9.East Coast Railway (ECoR) has launched a fortnight-long ‘Swachhata Abhiyan’ from August 1 to 15, with a focus on ensuring cleanliness across railway stations, trains, offi ces, workshops, maintenance depots, hospitals, and residential areas under its jurisdiction.
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10.Police Friday issued a notice to a peon asking him to clarify his alleged role in serving urine instead of drinking water to a newly appointed junior engineer at a government department in Gajapati district, an officer said.
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11. The Supreme Court has fl agged the ecological imbalance in Himachal Pradesh and cautioned that the entire state may "vanish in thin air" if the situation does not change.
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12.The Manipur government Friday officially launched its e-gazette portal in a move aimed at promoting digital governance and enhancing public access to official information, a statement said.
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13.The Election Commission Friday came out with the much-anticipated 'draft electoral rolls' in Bihar, enlisting 7.24 crore voters but knocking off more than 65 lakh names, claiming that most of the persons concerned had died or migrated.
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14.The Punjab and Haryana High Court Friday dismissed a plea of BJP MP Kangana Ranaut seeking quashing of a defamation complaint against her and the summoning order by a court in Bathinda.
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15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Assam September 8 to inaugurate the year-long birth centenary celebrations of Bhupen Hazarika, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Friday