1.Wrestler Aman Sehrawat added to India’s medal tally by winning the bronze medal in the 57kg freestyle category here Friday.
2.The Supreme Court Friday stayed a Mumbai college’s decision banning ‘hijab, burqa, cap and naqab’ on the campus and said girl students must have the freedom to choose what they wear.
3.Right to speedy trial and liberty are “sacrosanct”, and prolonged incarceration before being pronounced guilty of an offence should not be permitted to become “punishment without trial”, the Supreme Court said Friday.
4.Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Satyabrata Sahu Friday alerted the Collectors of 10 districts after the level in Mahanadi increased due to the discharge of water from Hirakud dam.
5.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved eight railway projects, including six in Odisha, with total estimated cost of `24,657 crore, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Friday.
6.Higher Education (HE) Minister Suryabanshi Suraj inaugurated 14 new government degree colleges in eight districts of the state, Friday.
7.Leader of Opposition in Assembly Naveen Patnaik Friday demanded inclusion of 169 communities in the ST list of the state and several tribal languages in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution.
8.India is set to become a $ 8 trillion economy by 2034 and will pivot much of the world in terms of its economics and geopolitics, according to BJP leader and founder of think-tank India Foundation Shaurya Doval.
9.The joint committee of Parliament to examine the Waqf (Amendment) Bill will have 31 members -- 21 from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha -- and will submit its report by the next session.
10.The Lok Sabha Friday passed a Bill to replace the 90-year-old Aircraft Act and further improve the ease of doing business in the aviation space.
11.The Patna District Administration Friday ordered the closure of 124 coaching centres in the state capital after finding them ineligible for registration, an official said.
12.The Supreme Court Friday refused to postpone NEET-PG examination scheduled for August 11, saying it can’t put the careers of two lakh candidates in jeopardy for five students who have filed the petition.
13.Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return to her country when its new caretaker government decides to hold elections, her son has said.
14. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Thursday took tensions with social media platform X and its owner Elon Musk to new heights, banning the platform in the South American country for 10 days amid furore over a disputed presidential election.
15.Shares of Bhavish Aggarwal-led electric two-wheeler company Ola Electric Mobility Ltd surged 20 per cent to hit the upper circuit limit against the issue price of `76 after listing on a flat note earlier in the day Friday.
16.Down by 11 points in the fourth quarter, against what looked like overwhelming odds, the US Olympic men’s basketball team got a spark.
17.The hearing into Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s appeal against her disqualification from the Olympic finals concluded at the ad-hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) here with the IOA insisting that it is hopeful of a ‘positive resolution’. The ad-hoc division said that a decision can be expected before the end of the Games Sunday.
18.An Egyptian Olympic wrestler has been arrested here on sexual assault charges, French prosecutors said Friday.
19.The Adani group has fulfiled its promise of ₹ 5 crore donation to support the rehabilitation of Wayanad landslide victims.
20.The Adani group has fulfiled its promise of ₹ 5 crore donation to support the rehabilitation of Wayanad landslide victims.
1.Bangladesh’s Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus was sworn in as the head of the country’s caretaker government Thursday, three days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to quit and flee the country following violent protests
2.Israeli forces stepped up strikes across the Gaza Strip Thursday, killing at least 40 people, Palestinian medics said, in further battle with Hamas-led militants as Israel braced for potential wider war in the region.
3.China has confirmed the discovery of a major gas field, estimated to be over 100 billion cubic metres, in the disputed South China Sea, which is expected to add fuel to the current round of military and diplomatic tensions between Beijing and other claimants in the region.
4. Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed nearly 1 per cent down Thursday after the Reserve Bank of India decided to keep the policy rate unchanged for the ninth time in a row.
5.In a thoughtful move, a 13-year-old girl child from Tamil Nadu, Harini Sri, performed Bharatanatyam for three straight hours to raise funds for the people affected by the Wayanad landslides in Kerala.
6.A special court in Chennai framed charges against former Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on Thursday in connection with an alleged cash-for-jobs scam.
7.Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who will be remembered both for his commitment to the communist ideology and a pragmatic approach to industrialising the state, passed away at the age of 80 at his residence here Thursday.
8.The Odisha state government has decided not to open any new liquor shop in the current financial year, Excise Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan said Thursday.
9.The Capital city of Bhubaneswar became the first place in the country to provide beneficiaries roundthe-clock access to public distribution system with the launch of Annapurti Grain ATM in Mancheswar area here, Thursday.
10.Odisha has become a leading state in the entire nation to accord habitat rights to three Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) under the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
11.After meeting his political career’s first defeat earlier this year, BJD president and former CM Naveen Patnaik decided to undertake a statewide tour from November to meet people and party workers.
12.Vinesh Phogat announces her retirement from wrestling saying that her courage is broken and she cannot continue.
13.Arshad Nadeem from Pakistan hit the jackpot with his best-ever javelin throw to dethrone Neeraj Chopra and emerge as the Olympic champion here Thursday.
14.In Paris as the Indian hockey team claimed a second successive Olympic bronze medal for the first time in over half a century.
15.National record holder Jyothi Yarraji failed to make the semifinals of women’s 100m hurdle after finishing fourth in her repechage heat at the Paris Olympics here Thursday.
1.Celebrated biochemist Govindarajan Padmanabhan has been selected for first Vigyan Ratna Puraskar, the top most science award instituted by the government this year. The government Wednesday announced 33 Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskars, which include 18 Vigyan Yuva Puraskars for young scientists and 13 Vigyan Shri Puraskars and a Vigyan Team award
2.Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Wednesday said the Preamble to the Constitution is very well there in NCERT textbooks of Class VI as he refuted charges made in this regard by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
3.A judicial tribunal has confirmed the fiveyear extension of the ban imposed on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), saying the outfit has not abandoned its objective of ‘Jehaad’ for the cause of Islam and that it continues to work for establishment of Islamic rule in India.
4.The Delhi High Court Wednesday questioned the ED as to what remained in its challenge seeking cancellation of bail granted to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal when he had already been granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in the excise policy-linked money laundering case
5.The Centre Wednesday appealed to the state governments to implement the provision of the Right to Education, which mandates 25 per cent of seats for the children from economically weaker sections in private unaided schools.
6.Odia IPS officer Rashmi Ranjan Swain has been appointed as the Director General of police in Jammu & Kashmir, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a notification issued Wednesday.
7. Air India and IndiGo operated Wednesday special flights to Dhaka, bringing more than 400 people amid a volatile situation in the Bangladesh capital.
8.The Rajya Sabha (RS) byelection for the vacant seat from Odisha will be held September 3, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said.
9.About 4,264 applications received on the PM Cares for Children portal have been rejected, the government said Wednesday, listing non-eligibility as the reason for rejection under the scheme for children orphaned during Covid-19 pandemic.
10.In a major reshuffle among senior bureaucrats, the state government Wednesday appointed Board of Revenue Secretary Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya as the Director of Odia Language, Literature and Culture (OLL&C) department.
11.The Lok Sabha Wednesday passed the Finance Bill 2024 after the government relaxed the just-introduced new capital gains tax on real estate, allowing taxpayers an option to switch to a new lower tax rate or stay with the old regime that had higher rate with indexation benefit.
12.The Supreme Court Wednesday expunged some “scandalous” and “unwarranted” observations made against the apex court by a single judge bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a contempt case, saying it was “pained” by these remarks.
13.Nobel laureate Prof Mohammad Yunus, the designated head of Bangladesh’s interim government, Wednesday fervently appealed everybody “to stay calm” and “refrain from all kinds of violence” .
14.India’s biggest wrestling medal hope at the Paris Games, Antim Panghal ended her Olympic campaign with a humiliating 0-10 defeat to Turkey’s Yetgil Zeynep in the women’s 53 kg category.
15.All Indian visa application centres in Bangladesh will remain closed until further notice after unrest in the neighbouring country forced Sheikh Hasina to resign as Prime Minister and flee the country.
1.The Earth Observation Satellite-8 (EOS-8) is likely to be launched August 15, ISRO sources said Tuesday.
2.Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin asked all the political parties to normalise the law and order situation in the country and directed the armed forces to take stern measures to protect the lives and properties of the people and state assets.
3.Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s plan to travel to London has hit a roadblock over some “uncertainties” and she is unlikely to move out of India for the next couple of days, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
4.National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma's tenure ended Tuesday. Sharma, 60, assumed the charge of NCW chairperson August 7, 2018.
5.The rescue operations in landslideaffected four villages of Kerala’s Wayanad entered the eighth day Tuesday with the death toll reaching 402 and around 170 still missing.
6.The 29-year-old from Haryana defeated Yusneylis Guzman Lopez of Cuba 5-0 in the semifinals where she used brain and brawn in equal measure to be assured of at least a silver in her third Olympic outing.
7.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked the country’s leading aluminium producer Hindalco of the Aditya Birla Group for alleged corruption in getting environmental clearances for coal mining between 2011 and 2013,
8.The state government may procure potatoes from Punjab to improve supplies and reduce prices of the tuber, a minister said.
9.The Chief Minister said that Odisha targets a 500 billion dollar economy by 2036 when the state will be celebrating the centenary of its formation. “We also desire to reach 1.5 trillion dollar economy by 2047,” he added.
10.Indian Coast Guard (ICG) units along Odisha and West Bengal coastlines have increased vigil after the toppling of the government in Bangladesh.
11.Our government is committed to supporting journalists and has taken several initiatives to improve their working conditions and quality of life said PEMA KHANDU | CM, ARUNACHAL PRADESH.
12.More than 84 per cent of the districts in India are prone to extreme heat waves and 70 per cent are experiencing a rise in the frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events, according to a new analysis.
13.Tata Power Tuesday said it has logged 31 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at `1,189 crore, compared to the year-ago period, on back of operational efficiency.
14.Electric vehicle sales registered a 55.2 per cent on-year growth at 1,79,038 units in July driven by a massive 96 per cent jump in e-two-wheeler sales, automobile dealers’ body FADA said Tuesday.
15.Avinash Sable becomes 1st Indian runner to reach the final of the 3000m steeplechase event at the Olympics
1.Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina landed at the Hindon airbase on the outskirts of Delhi Monday, hours after she resigned as the prime minister following weeks of deadly anti-government protests that killed nearly 300 people.
2.Coaching centres have become “death chambers” and are playing with the lives of students, the Supreme Court said Monday
3.The government has collected `8,263 crore towards GST on health insurance premiums in 2023-24 fiscal, Parliament was informed Monday.
4.The Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee (SJTMC) Monday approved the standard operating procedure (SOP) for conducting scanning of the Ratna Bhandar (treasury) of Srimandir here with the latest scientific tools.
5.In a gruesome incident, a man allegedly killed his wife Monday morning by hitting her head repeatedly with a bucket over domestic dispute at Banida village under Jaleswar police limits in Balasore district.
6.The Delhi High Court Monday granted liberty to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to approach a trial court with his plea seeking bail in the CBI corruption case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam, noting the change in circumstances of the case.
7.Around half of rural men aged 18 to 25 are employed while only a quarter of the women in the same age bracket are working, according to a survey involving 5,169 youths across villages of the country, the report of which was released Monday.
8.Several Opposition leaders Monday alleged that the BJP-led government wants to bring a bill for amending the Wakf Act to create a divide in the society and asserted that they will strongly oppose such a legislation.
9.Mobs vandalised a statue of former Bangladesh President and the country’s independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka.
10.Capital markets regulator Sebi has amended mutual fund norms requiring Asset Management Companies (AMCs) to put in place an institutional mechanism to identify and deter frontrunning and insider trading in securities.
11.UPI transactions in the first three months of the current fiscal have grown over 36 per cent to `60 lakh crore, Parliament was informed Monday.
12.The Supreme Court Monday asked the West Bengal government to provide quantifiable data on social and economic backwardness and the inadequate representation in public sector jobs of the castes that were included by it in the OBC list for granting quota benefits.
13. In a major setback to Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party government, the Supreme Court Monday ruled that the law “expressly enables” the lieutenant governor to nominate aldermen to the MCD and he is not bound by the advice of the council of ministers in the matter.
14.The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday issued a high alert across all its formations along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border in the wake of the developments in the neighbouring country, officials said.
15.Funds worth Rs1.19 crore have been misappropriated from the bank account of Odisha Lift Irrigation Corporation (OLIC) office here in Subarnapur district allegedly by the assistant accountant of the office, a report said Monday.