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1.A 30-year-old Indian techie was shot by the police in California after he allegedly stabbed his roommate with a knife earlier this month. .
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2.In Assam, the Congress, has lodged a complaint with the Guwahati police against the BJP state unit over an AI video that was posted on its official social media handles.
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3.Congress's Rahul Gandhi after the second round of his campaign against alleged "vote theft" posted on X in the evening that students and youth of the country will "save the constitution, protect democracy and stop vote theft" and that he stands .
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4.The "all clear" to the Adani Group from market regulator Securities and Exchanges Board of India or SEBI has "massive ramifications, both from a legal perspective and also from a market perspective," Supreme Court advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai said.
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5.Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have signed a strategic defence agreement, which declares that any attack on either country will be considered ‘an aggression against both’.
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6.Bhubaneswar As many as 42 industrial houses, including government ones, owe water cess amounting to Rs 3,797.14 crore to the state government till March this year, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi told the Assembly.
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7. Indian photographer Prasenjeet Yadav’s image of a black tiger from Odisha’s Similipal National Park has featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine’s upcoming October 2025 edition.
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8.Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Thursday began its street dog census across the City, an official said. The counting of stray dogs will take place in every street and ward across the state capital everyday between 5am to 7am, the official mentioned.
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9.The Crime Branch (CB) of Odisha Police has reopened an investigation into the 2023 fake certificate scam and arrested a man from Kalahandi district, officials said Thursday.
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10.The decision of the US government to revoke the 2018 sanctions waiver with regard to strategic Iranian port of Chabahar will have implications for India, which is engaged in the development of a terminal at the port.
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11.Slogans of ‘Go back Kangana, you are late’ rent the air Thursday when the Bollywood actor and BJP MP from Mandi visited a rain-affected area in Himachal Pradesh’s Manali.
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12.The Election Commission Thursday dubbed as incorrect and baseless the allegations made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that CEC Gyanesh Kumar is protecting “vote chors”.
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13.The Supreme Court Thursday imposed a Rs 5 lakh fi ne on Delhi government's Public Works Department for engaging manual sewer cleaners, including a minor, right outside the top court in violation of its orders prohibiting the practice.
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14.Climate change could be affecting when girls get their fi rst periods, with higher humidity linked with an earlier onset and higher temperatures with a delayed one, according to a study.
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15.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted the formation of two low pressure areas over the Bay of Bengal this month, one of which is likely to cross Odisha.