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1.Odisha is all set to welcome the Odia New Year—Maha Bishuba Sankranti, popularly known as Pana Sankranti—April 14, the grand finale of the fortnight-long ‘Odia Pakhya’ celebrations dedicated to language, heritage and identity.
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2.Odisha government Monday said there would be no disconnection of power supply for domestic consumers during the summer season in case of unpaid electricity bills.
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3.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday laid the foundation stone for projects worth Rs 1900 crore, including the much-awaited Rs 1,581.21 crore Barbil Bypass Ring Road project in Keonjhar district,
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4.Nayagarh’s iconic 'Chhena Poda' is set to receive Geographical Indication (GI) tag recognition, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Monday.
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5.Senior IRS officer Dr D. Sudhakara Rao assumed charge today as the Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (PCCIT) for the Odisha Region at Bhubaneswar.
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6.Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) has received a CareEdge-ESG 1+ rating with a score of 87.3 from CARE ESG Ratings Limited (CareEdge-ESG), a Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) registered ESG rating provider.
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7.The first day’s inventory work of Lord Jagannath’s ornaments stored in the inner chamber of the Puri temple’s Ratna Bhandar (treasury) concluded Monday amid tight security arrangements .
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8.The US military vowed to blockade all Iranian ports starting Monday in an effort to force Tehran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz and accept a peace deal.
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9.Iran is open to holding another round of peace talks with the US if it refrains from "unlawful demands" and accepts Tehran's conditions.
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10.The Rajya Sabha will hold the election for the post of deputy chairman April 17.
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11.Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a plea by a group of 13 people seeking its intervention in the deletion of their names from the voter list during the Special Institutional Revision (SIR) in West Bengal,
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12.Retail inflation inched up marginally to 3.4 per cent in March compared to 3.21 per cent in the preceding month, mainly due to uptick in certain food items, amid the ongoing West Asia crisis.
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13.In a setback to Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court Monday refused to quash a CBI FIR in the landfor-jobs case involving the RJD chief and his family members.
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14. Private sector companies' investments in bonds and debentures shot up manifold in FY25, the Reserve Bank said Monday.
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15.America’s NATO allies resist President Donald Trump’s plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz