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1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday welcomed world leaders, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva, for the ongoing AI Impact Summit here and held nine bilaterals with heads of state and CEOs.
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2.The 37 Rajya Sabha seats, including four in Odisha, going to biennial polls on March 16 .
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3.The Matriculation Examination 2026 will start from February 19 to March 2 across the state. A total of 5,61,989 students will appear for the examination this year.
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4.Eight samples of milk and dairy products have been found to be of substandard quality during checks in the state last year, Animal Resources Development Minister Gokulananda Mallik told .
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5.The internet never forgets and the dog-eat-dog world of social media probably won’t let you pass off a Chinese product as a Greater Noida innovation; private university Galgotias found out the hard way on being forced out of the AI Impact Summit Wednesday.
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6.The Supreme Court Wednesday set aside an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordering demolition of a woman’s self-help group (SHG) building at a village in Puri district on the ground that it was constructed on a waterbody.
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7. Betting big on India’s AI potential, Google CEO Sundar Pichai Wednesday announced a new subsea cable initiative to boost AI connectivity between India, the US and other locations, alongside partnerships for cloud infrastructure platform support to over 20 million public servants across 800 districts.
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8.The 22 government Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in Odisha will be upgraded into Centres of Excellence (CoEs) at a total cost of Rs 779 crore, with the state government signing a pact with Tata Technologies in this regard Wednesday.
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9.Chief Secretary Anu Garg Wednesday directed officers to ensure completion of all single-village and solar-powered drinking water projects across the state within March 2026.
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10.Twenty women drivers, holding valid Heavy Motor Vehicle (HMV) licences, successfully completed 14-day advanced training programme in Pune and all set to be inducted in Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) Ama Bus services.
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11.A pair of African lions were brought to the Jamshedpur zoo in Jharkhand from the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad as part of an animal exchange programme.
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12.The Food and Agriculture Organization of UN has awarded internationally valued certificate to West Bengle Govt for community initiatives innovative ‘Matir Srishti’ programme.
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13.The Supreme Court has ruled that grabbing of breasts and pulling the pyjama string amount to “attempt to rape”, setting aside a controversial Allahabad High Court order which said these were only “preparation to commit rape”.
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14.MNS president Raj Thackeray met Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at the latter’s official residence Wednesday, their first in-person interaction after the Mumbai civic body polls last month.
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15.According to the law, it is mandatory that electoral rolls revisions are held before elections, and as such, SIR (special intensive revision) was conducted in 12 states while SR was held in Assam said Gyanesh Kumar.