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1.Odisha has achieved 81.05 per cent budget utilisation during the financial year 2024-25.
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.Sixteen states were in revenue surplus during 2022-23, with Uttar Pradesh topping the chart with Rs 37,263 crore, followed by Gujarat (Rs 19,865 crore) and Odisha (Rs 19,456 crore), according a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India report.
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3.GST rates took effect Monday, sales of air-conditioners, TV sets surged dramatically with buyers rushing to grab cheaper deals offered by retailers at the beginning of the Navratra festival.
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4. Rupee depreciated 12 paise to close at 88.28 against US dollar Monday, as investors weighed Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike impact on Indian remittances amid heightened risk-averse sentiment.
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5.Biswaranjan Sahu, ACP, in charge of Choudwar police station, has been suspended in connection with the death of Nayak in custody
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6.As many as 37,611 cases of crimes against women were registered in the state in 14 months, between June 2024 and July this year, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi told the Assembly Monday
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7.Odisha currently has one doctor for every 1,735 people, falling short of the World Health Organisation’s recommended ratio of one doctor per 1,000 people.
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8.Panic has gripped villagers in Kendrapara district after a giant crocodile, estimated to be more than 25 feet long, was sighted at Gobari Mouth-1, the interjunction of Baulakani, Jambu and KB Dandua panchayats near the Mahakalapara Tini Muhani ferry ghat.
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9.Restoration work at Kalinga Ghat, a stretch of NH-157 connecting Ganjam and Kandhamal districts, was hit due to a fresh landslide Monday.
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10.The magnitude of the new H1B visa application fee for fresh petitions - math of which works out to $500 million in case of 5,000 fi lings - may nudge IT companies to expand offshore delivery or increase local hiring, according to Motilal Oswal Financial Services.
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11.The Social and Educational Survey, popularly known as the ‘caste census’ in Karnataka, commenced Monday, with enumerators going door-to-door to collect data.
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12. A 13-year-old Afghan boy's "curiosity" brought him to Delhi from Afghanistan after he somehow managed to get inside the landing gear compartment of an aircraft that took off from Kabul.
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13.The Supreme Court Monday lamented some high court judges being unable to “deliver on their tasks” as it called for their “performance evaluation”.
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14.India maintained their stranglehold over arch-foes Pakistan across sports as the country's football team notched a 3-2 victory in a highly-charged SAFF U17 Championship match.
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15.Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh, the reigning FIDE Women’s World Cup champion, has been awarded a wild card for the upcoming FIDE World Cup 2025, scheduled to take place in Goa from October 31 to November 27.