1. A POCSO court has sentenced six more men to life imprisonment in the sensational Ajmer sex scandal, in which more than 100 girls were raped and blackmailed.

2. The Supreme Court Tuesday sought a response of the Odisha government on the remission plea of Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving life sentence for the ghastly killings of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons in Keonjhar district in 1999.

3. The Centre Tuesday asked the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to cancel the latest lateral entry recruitment, amid a row over reservation in the advertised posts.

4. BJP Tuesday announced Mamata Mohanta as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha by-poll in Odisha.  

5. The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) Tuesday decided to change the question pattern for Class XII students appearing the Annual Higher Secondary Examinations, 2025. The changed pattern will be applicable for students in Science, Arts, Commerce and Vocational streams.

6. Odisha is home to a total of 2,098 elephants and 27 tigers, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia told the Assembly, Tuesday.

7. The empty cupboards and treasure chests in the outer and inner Ratna Bhandar of Srimandir will be shifted to a room near the Niladri Vihar temple museum August 23, the shrine’s public relations officer Jeetendra Patnaik said, Tuesday.

8. The rapid increase in dengue cases has become a constant source of worry to the local administration in this city. In fact, dengue has turned into a massive headache for the Sundargarh district administration.

9. The Justice Hema Committee report, which exposed the shocking harassment and sexual exploitation faced by women in the Malayalam film industry, sparked a political storm in Kerala Tuesday.

10. The Supreme Court Tuesday set aside a Calcutta High Court order that acquitted an accused in a sexual-assault case and made “objectionable” remarks advising adolescent girls to “control sexual urges”, saying these observations are “shocking” and perverse.

11. The Delhi government has directed three of its hospitals to set up isolation rooms for management of suspected and confirmed cases of Mpox, officials said Tuesday, even as they stressed that there were no patients detected here till now.

12. The Supreme Court Tuesday ordered the removal of the name, photos and videos of a trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, from all social media platforms.

13. Maria Branyas, who was the world’s oldest person, has died peacefully in Spanish at the age of 117, according to her account on the X platform Tuesday.

14. Food regulator FSSAI has given four more months till December-end to food business operators to exhaust all pre-printed packaging materials claiming ‘100 per cent fruit juices’ in their packaged juice product.

15. Topranked Jannik Sinner and women’s No. 2 Ayrna Sabalenka earned straight set victories in the finals of the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament here Monday, the first titles at the tournament for both players.

16. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah is all set to replace the incumbent Greg Barclay as the new chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

17. Kolkata Doctor Rape-Murder LIVE Updates: The Resident Doctors' Association of AIIMS, New Delhi said that they will provide OPD services from Jantar Mantar today to demonstrate their unwavering commitment to patient care.

18. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Poland today, marking the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country in 45 years. The visit coincides with 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Poland.

19.Kolkata rape and murder accused Sanjoy Roy'smother-in-law suggested that there could be more people involved in the crime and further added that Roy could not have done it alone.

20. Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, who has shredded the Mamata Banerjee government repeatedly over the young doctor's rape and murder, spoke to her parents today, assuring them that he would make every effort to get them justice.