1.The financial assistance under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) will be increased by rs60,000 to Rs1,80,000 from the existing rs 1,20,000, Odisha Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water department Minister Rabi Narayan Naik stated here Monday.

2.Migrant workers from Odisha who are working in Bangladesh and have since been stranded in the country, will soon be brought back to the state, Labour and Employees State Insurance Minister Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia informed here Monday.

3.A minor girl was raped and sexually assaulted and at least a dozen others were sexually abused at what turned out to be a fake National Cadet Corps (NCC) camp in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri, police said here Monday.

4.As Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a nearly seven-hour visit to Kyiv this week, India Monday said it is willing to provide all possible support required to help find a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

5.‘Ramu’ the well-known tusker residing inside the ChandakaDampara Bharatpur sanctuary on the outskirts of this city, breathed his last Monday.

6.Almost after eight years, the Students' Union election will be held in Odisha next year, informed State Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan on Monday.

7.The Minister for Language, Literature, Culture, Higher Education, and Sports and Youth Affairs, Suryabanshi Suraj Monday said that plans are afoot to promote professional photographers in the state.

8. The Commissionerate Police has banned the use of disc jockeys (DJ) during Ganesh Puja celebrations in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

 9.A group of women in Ganjam district have made eco-friendly rakhis and sent those to security personnel deployed in anti-Maoist operations in the state to wear on Raksha Bandhan day, Monday.

10.Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has directed Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar to submit a monthly report on the inspections conducted by senior officers in the aftermath of deaths due to complete collapse of civic infrastructure this monsoon, officials said Monday.

11.After it continued smoothly and peacefully during the last 52 days with nearly five lakh Yatris having ‘darshan’ inside the cave shrine, the annual Amarnath Yatra concluded Monday.

12.Restoration of Article 370 and Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood as well as implementation of the autonomy resolution passed by the erstwhile Assembly in 2000 are among the National Conference’s 12 guarantees announced in its manifesto for the upcoming polls.

13.The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Tuesday a suo motu case, ahead of other matters, related to the rape and murder of a postgraduate medic at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata amid the ongoing nationwide doctors’ strike over it.

14.The Health Ministry has allowed enhancement of security deployment by 25 per cent at all union government hospitals, official said, amid protests by resident doctors demanding a central law following the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital.

15.Capital markets regulator Sebi has segregated dues to the tune of Rs 76,293 crore under “difficult to recover” category at the end of March 2024, marking an increase of 4 per cent from the preceding year.

16.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman Monday held a performance review meeting with heads of public sector banks and asked them to make concerted efforts to garner deposits.

17.A broadbased moderation was observed in prices of cereals, pulses and edible oil in August, according to an article on ‘State of the Economy’ in the latest RBI Bulletin released Monday.

18.Indian carriers flew more than 1.29 crore passengers in July, an increase of more than 7.3 per cent compared to the year-ago period, official data released Monday showed.

19.Ace cueist Pankaj Advani of ONGC extended his dominance on the green baize as he completed a grand double by winning the senior snooker title at the Western India Billiards and Snooker Championships 2024 here.

20.The World Cricketers’ Association (WCA) has formed a six-member panel to review the cramped international calendar which it believes is “broken and unsustainable”.