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1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday shifted to his new office Seva Teerth from the colonial-era South Block building near Rashtrapati Bhavan on Raisina Hill.
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2.Tarique Rahman, who lived in London in self-exile for 17 years, has emerged as the new face of Bangladesh, with the party founded by his father set to return to power after a 20-year gap.
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3.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi laid the foundation stone for a new government medical college and hospital and launched 177 projects worth Rs 446 crore for Nabarangpur district.
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4.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday launched a scheme to facilitate poor, widow, and elderly persons to visit the Jagannath temple in Puri at least once in their lifetime.
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5.Electoral trusts received Rs3,826.34 crore in contributions in FY2024-25 and disbursed Rs 3,826.35 crore to political parties, with the BJP receiving 82.52 per cent of the funds, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said Friday.
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6.Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Kanhu Charan Lenka died at the age of 86 and is survived by a son and a daughter.
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7.The Supreme Court Friday asked the CBI, which is probing 11 FIRs related to the 2023 Manipur ethnic violence cases, to submit a status report within two weeks.
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8.Paradip Port has reportedly achieved a record cargo handling of 150.41 million tonne in 2024–25 fiscal, ranking as India’s No-1 major port.
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9.A special court in Ganjam district Friday sentenced a 26-year-old man to life imprisonment for sodomising and murdering a 4-year-old boy at Dharakote in 2023.
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10.Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant Friday categorically stated that the Goa International Airport at Dabolim will not be shut down.
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11.The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to filmmaker Vikram Bhatt’s wife Shwetambari Bhatt in a multi-crore rupees cheating case.
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12.The Congress in Telangana Friday scored an emphatic victory in the municipal elections, while the BRS and BJP too made their presence felt. Of the total 2,582 wards in 116 municipalities where elections were held February 11, the Congress bagged over 1,300 wards, followed by BRS (about 700 wards) and BJP (about 275 wards).
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13.Deaths caused by pothole-related road accidents have risen by 53 per cent over the past five years, with 9,438 people killed across the country between 2020 and 2024, the government informed Parliament.
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14.State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) reported a 1.6 per cent increase in net profit for the December quarter.
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15.The verification of marks for Class XII board exams will not be required after declaration of results from this year, as the board is shifting to fully digital evaluation.