-
1.The government has notified February 1 as the date from which additional excise duty on tobacco products, and a health cess on pan masala will be levied, replacing the existing GST compensation cess levy on such ‘sin goods’.
-
2.The state government Thursday appointed Revenue & Disaster Management (R&DM) department Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Deoranjan Kumar Singh as the new Development Commissioner (DC)-cum-ACS.
-
3.Passenger vehicle wholesales in India clock a record 45.5 lakh units in 2025, growing by nearly 6 per cent, turbocharged by GST 2.0
-
4.The state government Thursday appointed Revenue & Disaster Management (R&DM) department Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Deoranjan Kumar Singh as the new Development Commissioner (DC)-cum-ACS.
-
5.Price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF), or jet fuel, was reduced by 7.3 per cent Thursday, while commercial LPG rate was raised by Rs111 per cylinder, as state-owned oil marketing companies implemented their monthly price revisions aligned with global fuel benchmarks.
-
6.Around 40 people were killed and 115 injured when a fire ripped through a crowded bar during a New Year’s Eve party in the upscale Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, officials said Thursday.
-
7.India, home to the world’s largest tiger population, has lost as many as 166 of these majestic animals in 2025, 40 more than the previous year, due to various reasons, as per the latest data of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
-
8.Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling Thursday said the state government is examining the demands of the Odisha Medical Services Association (OMSA) and that efforts are under way to fulfi ll all reasonable demands of doctors in the coming days.
-
9.Much to the delight of ornithologists, migratory winged species are arriving in batches from Himalayan region to wetland sites in Chilika and Bhitarkanika National Park, triggering soothing chirpy cacophony in the region.
-
10.Permanent migration has emerged as the primary reason for electoral discrepancies in Uttar Pradesh, accounting for nearly 1.30 crore of the 2.88 crore uncollectable electoral forms identifi ed during the Special Intensive Revision.
-
11.Indian Railways has successfully completed the final high-speed trial of the indigenously designed and manufactured Vande Bharat Sleeper Train under the supervision of the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS).
-
12.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fl ag off the much-awaited Vande Bharat sleeper train between Guwahati and Kolkata later this month, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Thursday.
-
13.Anti-graft ombudsman Lokpal has cancelled its controversial tender to procure seven luxury BMW cars, collectively worth around Rs5 crore, two months after it was floated, officials said Thursday.
-
14.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday said it has conducted searches at the accounting firm of real money online money gaming app WinZO and has frozen fresh bank deposits, mutual funds and fi xed deposits worth Rs192 crore.
-
15.A Hindu businessman has been brutally attacked, hacked and set on fi re by unidentifi ed miscreants in Bangladesh, police said Thursday.