1.Padma Shri awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik has set a new world record, earning recognition from the World Records Book of India for his spectacular sand art installation titled “World’s Biggest Apple and Sand Installation of Santa Claus.”
2.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said official work at district and block level offices will go paperless soon.
3.Security forces killed top Maoist leader Ganesh Uike, who had a bounty of Rs1.1 crore on his head along with three others, in an encounter in Kandhamal.
4.The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) described the air quality at Balasore, Talcher and Baripada as very poor in its Air Quality Index (AQI).
5.A man in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district allegedly chopped off the genitals of his neighbour’s minor son over a petty dispute.
6.Barsha, the wife of Odia comedian Gulua, has made serious allegations against her husband, accusing him of having extramarital affairs with multiple women.
7.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a fog alert for several districts of the Odisha for the next five days.
8.Indian Railways (IR) has sanctioned Rs 432 crore for rebuilding a key bridge in West Bengal. The infrastructure project estimated at Rs 431.76 crore.
9.The Indian Army has brought a change in its social media guidelines under which its personnel can now sign up on Instagram, but with a rider that they can use it only as ‘passive observers’ without putting up posts or comments on the platform.
10.President Droupadi Murmu released the Constitution of India in the Santhali language during an event at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
11.The Railway Ministry Thursday officially notified a hike in train ticket prices by 1 paise per km for ordinary class beyond a journey of 215 km, and 2 paise per km for non-AC classes of mail/express trains and AC classes of all trains.
12.The village elders in Rajasthan’s Jalore district have withdrawn the ban imposed on women using smartphones after the decision faced opposition in several places.
13.Shivank Avasthi was found with a gunshot wound on Tuesday, in what the police said was Toronto's 41st homicide case this year.
14.Around 40 unidentified persons have been charged for vandalising Magneto Mall on VIP Road in Raipur during the state-wide 'Chhattisgarh Bandh' on Wednesday.
15.India's golf legend Jeev Milkha Singh ended a 13-year title drought after securing the IGPL Invitational Sri Lanka with a perfect fi nish to the inaugural season of the IGPL here Thursday
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1.The state government has extended the deadline for renewing the pollution under control (PUC) certificate for motor vehicles by a month.
2.Senior IAS officer Anu Garg was Wednesday named the next Chief Secretary of Odisha, making her the fi rst woman to be appointed to the post.
3.The Cabinet of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday decided to bear around Rs735 crore towards one year’s rent on installation of smart meters in the houses of domestic consumers of the state.
4.The state government also approved ‘Baraputra Aitihya Gram Yojana’ to develop the birthplaces of the state’s great sons and daughters, including freedom fighters, poets, social reformers and other eminent personalities at a cost of Rs345 crore.
5.The Cabinet also approved the proposal of promulgation of an ordinance for uniform reservation for teachers’ recruitment across public universities of the state.
6.A private jet carrying Libya’s military chief and four other officers and military staff crashed Tuesday after takeoff from Turkey’s capital, Ankara, killing everyone on board.
7.US border patrol agents have arrested 30 Indian nationals, living illegally in America, operating semitrucks with commercial driver’s licenses.
8. Adani Power Ltd has raised its long-term installed capacity target to 41.87 gigawatt (GW) by FY32 and committed capital expenditure of about Rs 2 lakh crore, signalling one of the most aggressive private sector expansion plans in India's thermal power industry.
9.The Reserve Bank Wednesday postponed implementation of the second phase of the faster cheque clearance mechanism to provide more time to banks to streamline their operations.
10.The Delhi High Court order providing relief to Kuldeep Singh Sengar - the convict in the 2017 Unnao gangrape case -- will be challenged immediately in the Supreme Court by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
11.A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Odisha's Bhadrak district, triggering a massive outrage with locals demolishing the accused's house, police said on Wednesday.
12.Legendary classical vocalist Ustad Rashid Khan's son Armaan Khan cancelled his upcoming concerts in Bangladesh given the current political situation there.
13.The environment ministry on Wednesday issued directions to Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana and Rajasthan to impose a complete ban on the grant of any new mining leases in the Aravallis.
14.Delhi High Court on Wednesday slammed the government for failing to contain air pollution in Delhi and asked it to consider reducing goods and services tax (GST) on air purifiers.
15.The 14-year-old Suryavanshi becomes the youngest to score a hundred in men's List A cricket. His 150 came in 59 balls — the fastest in men’s List A history and he ended at 190 off 84 balls, which included 16 fours and 15 sixes.
India and New Zealand finalise talks on a free trade deal that will give India tariff-free access to the island nation’s markets.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the fi fth national conference of chief secretaries in the national capital this week, a senior government official said Monday.
Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, has been awarded Saudi Arabia’s highest civilian honour, the King Abdulaziz Medal of Excellence.
A Russian general was killed by a car bomb in southern Moscow Monday, Russian investigators said, adding that they suspected Ukrainian special services could have been behind the attack.
The Aravalli Range has returned to the national spotlight following a Supreme Court ruling redefining what qualifies as the ancient hill system.
The Delhi High Court Monday asked Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others to respond to a plea by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenging the order of the trial court that refused to take cognisance of its chargesheet against them in the National Herald case.
Patiala Former IPS officer Amar Singh Chahal allegedly shot himself here Monday and in a purported note, he claimed that he had been duped of `8.10 crore by cyber thugs who posed as wealth management advisors.
The king of Puri, Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deb, accused the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) of spreading “misinformation” against Shree Jagannath culture and called upon religious scholars and devotees to oppose the holding of “untimely” Rath Yatra.
Normal life was affected in several parts of the state Monday, as the mercury dipped below the 10 degrees Celsius-mark at nine places, weather officials said.
Migratory birds like the Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus) and the Common Crane (Grus grus) have begun arriving at the Pangaon and Kamkheda lakes in Latur’s Renapur tehsil, wildlife experts said Monday
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday lashed out at the Election Commission, alleging that there were “gross errors” in the draft rolls published following the enumeration phase of the SIR in the state.
The Reserve Bank of India sold a net $11.88 billion in the foreign exchange market in October, data released Monday showed, reflecting the central bank's efforts to support the rupee.
The Nitish Kumar government's work on the infrastructure got a big thumbs up from Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday.
More than 2.12 lakh new PUC certificates were issued following the strict implementation of GRAP-IV measures over the past four days in Delhi.
A village panchayat in Rajasthan's Jalore district has prohibited daughters-in-law and young women from 15 villages from using phones with cameras starting January 26.
1.President Droupadi Murmu Sunday gave her assent to Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, the Rural Development Ministry said.
2.President Droupadi Murmu has granted assent to the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, passed by Parliament during the Winter Session.
3.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 10,601-crore brownfield ammonia-urea plant in Dibrugarh district of Assam.
4.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday attended the ‘Parab-2025’, a national-level tribal festival, in Koraput where he laid foundation stones for 70 development projects worth Rs521 crore and inaugurated 16 others worth Rs24 crore.
5.Under the railways new ticket pricing structure, passengers will pay an extra 1 paisa per km on journeys beyond 215 km in Ordinary Class, and 2 paise per km for Mail and Express non-AC and AC classes. Passengers on a 500 km non-AC journey will pay an additional `10 for their journey. There is no increase in ticket prices for passengers travelling on routes shorter than 215 km.
6.Adani group plans to foray into engine MRO as well as passenger-aircraft-to-freighter (P2F) conversion, as the diversified conglomerate bets big on the domestic aviation market, according to a top group official.
7.Nine people have died and at least 10 others were injured after a group of unidentifi ed gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday.
8.Claiming that people in live-in relationships are "not ready to take responsibility," Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday highlighted the importance of maintaining the family structure in society.
9.The Sambalpuri Dhanu Yatra, now in its third year, will be held from January 18 to 22, organisers said.
10.Odisha Vigilance Sunday arrested a forest range offi cer for possession of assets disproportionate to his known source of income.
11. A Kremlin envoy said peace talks on a US-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were pressing on “constructively” in Florida, while the Ukrainian president said they were moving ”quickly.”
12.The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall at the Dhaka University has been renamed in memory of Sharif Osman Hadi.
13.The sale of meat, tobacco, alcohol, other intoxicants are now prohibited in Amritsar Walled City, Talwandi Sabo and Sri Anandpur Sahib after a notification was issued by the Punjab government, according them 'holy city' status.
14.Kerala government on Sunday warned that schools would not be allowed to be turned into "communal laboratories."
15.Mason Greenwood scored as Marseille strolled to a 6-0 win over third-tier Bourg-Peronnas in the French Cup last 64 on Sunday.
