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1.Anuj Agnihotri, an AIIMS graduate, has topped the coveted civil services examination 2025, results of which were declared by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Friday.
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2.Orissa High Court issued directions asking the government departments to ensure that no trade licence or business permission should be granted for any building that does not comply with legal requirements.
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3.Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah Friday unveiled 199 developmental projects valued at Rs 3,275 crore in Odisha.
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4.Amit Shah inaugurated 20 cyber and economic offences police stations and 24 police stations in different districts of the state, a sulphuric acid plant of IFFCO at Paradip, 19 modern Atal Bus Stands, Common Service Centres (CSCs) for primary agricultural cooperative societies (PACS), and 141 mandis (marketing yards).
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5.Odisha’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) RS Gopalan Friday announced that the 2002 voter list will serve as the baseline for mapping the 2025 electoral roll.
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6.An undertrial prisoner (UTP) lodged in the Sundargarh District Jail died while undergoing treatment at the Sundargarh Government Medical College and Hospital Thursday night.
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7.US President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ Friday, a dramatic escalation of his demands a week into the war he launched alongside Israel.
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8.Amid rising tensions in the Middle East, the United States has granted a temporary 30-day waiver allowing Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil already stranded at sea.
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9.Soon after the first Iranian missile and drone attacks on Dubai last week, two Indian entrepreneurs based there tried to move more than $100,000 each from their local bank accounts to Singapore to hedge risk.
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10.Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed in a crash of a Su-30MKI fighter jet in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district.
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11.The government Friday directed Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) to immediately withhold reporting the Television Rating Points (TRPs) for TV news channels for a period of four weeks or until further orders.
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12.Aviation watchdog DGCA has granted an aerodrome license for the Noida International Airport in Uttar Pradesh.
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13.Domestic airlines are scheduled to operate 96 flights to and from the Middle East Friday while the carriers have cancelled 278 international services for the day, the government said Friday amid the conflict in the region.
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14.The Enforcement Directorate Friday said it has attached assets worth more than `441 crore of various accused involved in the Andhra Pradesh liquor 'scam' case, which allegedly took place during the previous YSRCP regime in the state.
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15.Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fi re at dozens of points along their border Friday as the UN said their week-old confl ict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.