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1.Today is 75th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. To mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 75th birthday and the national plantation drive ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0’, 1.5 crore saplings will be planted across the country Wednesday.
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2.A part of National Highway 157 connecting Kandhamal with Ganjam districts, was disrupted and power supply went off across the Kandhamal district for over two hours after a major landslide occurred on the Kalinga ghat road triggered by incessant rainfall Tuesday.
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3.The Supreme Court Tuesday attributed the disinclination of former high court judges in taking up post retirement roles in tribunals to the lack of amenities and remarked all such quasi-judicial bodies should be abolished if the government was unable to mitigate the situation.
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4. In a first-ofits-kind move, the Uttar Pradesh government has ordered ‘life imprisonment’ for stray dogs that bite people more than once.
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5.Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Tuesday inaugurated 913 new buildings of Anganwadi centres in different parts of the state through virtual mode.
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6.At least 190 minor girls have been raped in Nabarangpur district between 2022 and August 2025, according to police records, raising serious concerns about child safety.
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7.The Maharashtra cabinet Tuesday cleared the new Animation, Visual Effects(VE), Gaming, Comics and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) Policy 2025 with a roadmap till 2050, projecting the industry to create two lakh jobs and attract Rs 50,000 crore investment over the next 20 years.
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8.The Centre has asked all states and Union territories to identify about 16,000 foreign nationals, mostly from African countries, who are “overstaying” in the country and could be involved in crimes including drug traffi cking, offi cial sources said Tuesday.
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9.Pulling up the Maharashtra State Election Commission for non-compliance of its order, the Supreme Court Tuesday directed the state local body polls, stalled since 2022, to be completed by January 31, 2026 without further extension .
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10.RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Monday launched a ‘Bihar Adhikar Yatra’ with back-to-back rallies in Patna and Jehanabad districts, besides Nalanda, the home turf of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whom he vowed to defeat in the upcoming Assembly polls.
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11.The Supreme Court Tuesday sought the stand of several states on pleas seeking a stay on their respective anti-conversion laws.
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12.Nine people, including two government employees, have been arrested from this district for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy after befriending him on a mobile app for the LGBTQ community, police said Tuesday.
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13.Mother Dairy Tuesday announced it will pass on GST reduction benefi ts to consumers from September 22.
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14.Denmark is leading a military exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Greenland, a maneuver that coincides with months of tensions over the Trump administration's desire for US jurisdiction over the vast Arctic territory.
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15.Apollo Tyres has been locked in as the new jersey sponsor for the Indian cricket team following the exit of online game platform Dream 11, a senior BCCI offi cial told PTI Tuesday.