1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi unveiled a transformative industrial roadmap for the district, formally declaring Keonjhar as Odisha’s third Steel City after Rourkela and Jajpur-Kalinganagar.
2.Odisha Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan today informed the Assembly that Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has received 13,358 public grievances over the past one and a half years, out of which 12,432 have been resolved.
3.State-owned National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) is aiming to start its Pottangi bauxite mines in Odisha by June next year.
4.Odisha is set to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the upcoming 6-lane greenfield Raipur–Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor, which will cut travel time between the two terminal cities from 12 hours to just 5 hours once completed in December 2026.
5.Odisha Public Library Conference (OPLC) 2025 concluded here Sunday with a strong collective commitment to establish modern digital public libraries in every panchayat of Odisha.
6.Just Rights for Children (JRC) has announced an intensive intervention in 25 districts of Odisha which are identified as high-prevalence areas under the National Family Health Survey V (2019-21). JRC targets to make one lakh villages in the country child marriage free by 202
7.West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose Sunday asserted that the state was “ready to end religious arrogance”, while pointing out at “something witnessed in Murshidabad a day before”.
8.Having spent eight years in prison after being arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl, a 56-yearold man has been acquitted by the trial court citing “scanty evidence”.
9.The Telangana government Sunday said it has decided to name the upcoming greenfield radial road at the proposed RRR in honour of the late industrialist Ratan Tata.
10.IndiGo has processed refunds totalling Rs610 crore so far against cancelled or severely delayed flights, and delivered 3,000 pieces of baggage to passengers across the country as of Saturday.
11.Foreign investors have pulled out Rs 11,820 crore ($1.3 billion) from Indian equities in the first week of this month, primarily driven by the sharp depreciation of the rupee.
12.A Kerala court on Monday acquitted actor Dileep over the abduction and rape of an actress in 2017.
13.A nightclub teeming with revellers in North Goa turned into a death trap around midnight as a massive fire tore through it, claiming 25 lives, including five tourists
14.IndiGo has been facing heat from both the government and the passengers for cancelling hundreds of flights since December 2, citing regulatory changes in the pilots' flight duty and regulations norms.
15.Young Simranpreet Kaur Brar overcame a challenging fi eld to win the women's 25m pistol gold while men's 50m rifl e 3-position exponent Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar bagged a silver on his ISSF World Cup Final debut here Sunday.
1.Odisha has identified the energy supply chain as a key pillar of its development, aiming to transform the state into a green energy hub by 2036.
2. Odisha will soon get 1.5 lakh rooftop solar units under new utility-led aggregation (ULA) model, benefitting 7-8 lakh people across the state, Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Pralhad Joshi said Saturday.
3.In a first for the country, Odisha has translated and contextualised 55 new NCERT textbooks developed under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
4.Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri owns over 60,426 acres of land in Odisha, and nearly 400 acres in six other states, Law minister Prithiviraj Harichandan said in the Assembly Saturday.
5. Over 1.33 lakh foreign tourists visited Odisha in the last five years, Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida said Saturday.
6.The Health department authorities have sealed an ultrasound machine and the premises of Nandighosh Hospital on Medical Road here after illegal ultrasounds were being conducted on pregnant women by unqualifi ed personnel.
7.The cold wave across Mayurbhanj district, with Similipal recording a minimum of 2°C in the past 24 hours.
8.Domestic carrier IndiGo cancelled over 800 flights Saturday, the fifth day of the ongoing crisis, even as the government imposed a cap on airfares and directed the airline to process all refunds by Sunday evening.
9.A Private Member’s Bill seeking a clear legal framework for regulation of deepfakes has been introduced in the Lok Sabha.
10.The heavy buying by domestic institutional investors (DIIs) overshadowed the persistent fund outflow by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) due to depreciation in Indian currency this week, analysts said Saturday.
11.The large swarming event was observed along Odisha’s ecologically sensitive Gahirmatha coast between September 27 and 28, 2022, a region famed as the world’s most important mass nesting site for Olive Ridley sea turtles.
12.Suruchi Singh clinches women’s 10m air pistol gold, while compatriot Sainyam takes silver as India make a big splash in ISSF World Cup Final.
13.Russia launches major missile and drone attack on Ukraine as US, Ukrainian offi cials meet for a third day of peace talks.
14.Himachal Pradesh’s Regional Transport Authorities (RTAs) have been authorised to grant permits for 400 e-rickshaws across over 25 subdivisions of the state, officials said Friday.
15.The Supreme Court has directed all the states and Union territories to establish a robust, independent and accessible grievance redressal mechanism specifically designed for prisoners with disabilities.
1.In 2025, as of November 21, as many as 3,155 Indian nationals have been deported from the US, the government informed Parliament on Friday.
2.The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO’s conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week.
3.In view of the surge in passenger demand following widespread flight cancellations, the Indian Railways has deployed 116 additional coaches in 37premium trains operating over 114 enhanced trips across the country.
4.IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights Friday and said operations are expected to normalise in the next 10 days.
5.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced the repo rate by 25 bps, its fourth cut since February 2025.
6.The Supreme Court Friday said that money belonging to a temple deity cannot be used to prop up financially distressed cooperative banks.
7.President Droupadi Murmu Friday conveyed her warm wishes to Prof K Lakshmi Bai on her 100th birthday and lauded her extraordinary gesture of donating her self-earned savings of Rs3.4 crore to AIIMS Bhubaneswar for cancer care.
8.Attacks by tigers, leopards, bears and other animals has claimed more than 900 lives in Uttarakhand in the last 25 years.
9.Leaders of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi have not been invited to the banquet for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
10.The World Book of Records, London, Friday recognised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s “milestone” of having taken oath as chief minister for the 10th time.
11.The Assam government Friday diluted the two-child norm for ST, SC, tea garden, Moran and Matak communities, amending its policy in this regard.
12.Forest officials in Ganjam district have seized two fishing trawlers from Andhra Pradesh for alleged illegal fishing near the Rushikulya river mouth.
13.The Odisha Government is moving to revise the entire school curriculum from Class I to Class XII in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
14.The matriculation examination for 2026 will begin February 19 and end March 2.
15.One of the two cheetah cubs released into the wild at the Kuno National Park the day before was found dead on Friday.
1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday warmly welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin as he kick-started a nearly 27-hour visit to India.
2.As many as 18,822 Indian nationals have been deported by the United States since 2009, including 3,258 since January 2025, the government informed the Rajya Sabha.
3.India abstained in the UN General Assembly from a draft resolution that demanded that Russia ensure the immediate, safe and unconditional return of all Ukrainian children forcibly transferred or deported since the start of the war.
4.The Odisha government sanctioned Rs1 crore for Bargarh’s Dhanu Jatra, during which the town transforms into an open-air theatre with the life of Lord Krishna being enacted over 11 days.
5.The country’s largest airline IndiGo cancelled more than 550 domestic and international flight
6.Lightning strikes have claimed the lives of 92 people in Odisha this year, Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari told the Assembly Thursday.
7.On the charge of sexually harassing a girl student, Satrughna Samal A guest lecturer of state government-run Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya was arrested .
8.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said Odisha will soon get its rights over Mahanadi River waters through a legal and amicable solution to the dispute with neighbouring Chhattisgarh.
9.The Odisha Police has put in place elaborate security arrangements for the India–South Africa T20 International cricket match scheduled at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack December 9. Over 70 platoons of police force will be deployed as part of the extensive security plan.
10.Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti said that India has achieved the fastest rollout of 5G services globally, supported by over 1.23 billion telecom subscribers and nearly 99 per cent 4G coverage.
11.Taking note of a plea alleging extreme work pressure faced by the booth level officers (BLOs) engaged in the time-bound special revision of the electoral rolls, the Supreme Court directed the states Thursday to consider deputing additional employees for reducing their working hours.
12.The Russian Education Agency, a joint initiative of Synergy Corporation and Innopraktika.India, announced Thursday the opening of its branch here to deepen cultural and educational ties between India and Russia and support Indian students seeking admission to Russian universities.
13.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav Thursday released three cheetahs into the wild at the Kuno National Park (KNP) on the occasion of International Cheetah Day
14.Foreign investors have pulled out Rs13,121 crore ($1.46 billion) from Indian equities in the fi rst four days of December, taking the total outfl ow for 2025 to Rs1.56 lakh crore ($17.8 billion), data from NSDL showed Thursday.
15.India has found its youngest chess record-holder. Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, just three years, seven months and 20 days old, has become the youngest player in world chess history to earn an official FIDE rating.
1.The Centre scrapped an order to smartphone makers Wednesday to preload a state-run cybersecurity app on all new devices after an outcry from politicians, privacy advocates and global tech companies over surveillance fears.
2.The Plus 2 annual theory examination conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), Odisha will be held from February 18 to March 21.
3.Twelve Naxalites, including a dreaded Maoist commander, and three personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), a specialised unit of the state police, were killed in a fierce encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district bordering Malkangiri district Wednesday, officials said.
4.The Odisha government has paid Rs1.6 crore to actress Madhuri Dixit Nene after making her the ambassador of state handlooms, a minister informed the state Assembly Wednesday.
5.The Odisha government has so far completed e-KYC verification of 96 per cent PDS beneficiaries.
6.Outstanding electricity dues totalling Rs6,957.57 crore remain unpaid by industrial, commercial and domestic consumers across Odisha, Deputy Chief Minister KV Singh Deo told the assembly Wednesday.
7.Pratidin Editor Sudhir Kumar Panda and Puri Lok Sabha MP Sambit Patra were among the nine persons nominated by the Centre as members to the Press Council of India (PCI).
8.Odisha received the national award for Best State/UT in Effective Implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, at the National Awards Ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
9.Mating season of Olive Ridley turtles has begun near Rushikulya estuary in Ganjam. The season that started from mid-November, will extend till the end of February said environmentalist Rabindranath Sahu.
10.The Himachal Pradesh government will fight in the Supreme Court for 1,24,870 illegal occupant families to save them from eviction, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu told the House Wednesday.
11.A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Wednesday set aside a single bench order that annulled appointments of 32,000 primary school teachers in West Bengal. Calcutta HC quashes order terminating 32,000 primary teachers.
12.Despite limited resources, challenging geographical location and difficult terrain, the Pahargaon police station in Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been adjudged the second best in the country by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
13.The Trump administration Tuesday said it paused all immigration applications, including green card and US citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, citing concerns over national security and public safety.
14.Markets regulator Sebi has made it easier for low risk foreign investors to participate in the Indian securities market with the introduction of a single window access, a move aimed at simplifying compliance and enhancing the country's attractiveness as an investment destination.
15.The rupee breached the 90-a-dollar level for the first time to settle at a fresh all-time low of 90.15 Wednesday, down 19 paise from its previous close, amid sustained foreign fund outfl ows and higher crude oil prices.