1.Bhubaneswar was adjudged the ‘City with the Best Public Transport System’ at the 17th Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference and Exhibition 2024 organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs at Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Sunday.

2.The Assam Cabinet Sunday approved 3-per cent dearness allowance (DA) hike for state government employees, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The increase will be effective from July this year, he said.

3.A total of 35.95 lakh people in the state have been impacted by cyclone Dana and subsequent flooding in 14 districts, Revenue and Disaster Management (R&DM) Minister Suresh Pujari said Sunday.

4.Unhealthy diets and physical inactivity are the main reasons for rising abdominal obesity in India, said Soumya Swaminathan, former WHO Chief Scientist.

5. Odisha Cops at twin city police stations would soon affix body cameras to their uniform during duty hours.

6.Foreign investors continue selling in Indian market, pulling out a massive `85,790 crore from equities this month due elevated pricing of domestic equities.

7.The state government Sunday effected mass transfer of Block Development Officers (BDOs) across districts, shunting 44 of them from their present places of posting.

8.Israeli military strikes kill at least 45 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip as efforts to secure a ceasefire resumes in Qatar.

9.Japan’s ruling coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a drubbing at Sunday’s national election, raising uncertainty over the makeup of the next government and the outlook for the world’s fourthlargest economy.

10.India will have its own space station by 2035, which will be known as "Bharatiya Antriksh Station", Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, said on Saturday.

11.Nine of the top-10 most valued firms together lost a whopping `2,09,952.26 crore from market valuation last week, in line with weak trends in equities, with Hindustan Unilever and Reliance Industries Limited taking the biggest hit. Last week, the BSE benchmark tanked 1,822.46 points or 2.24 per cent.

12.Two workers died and seven were hospitalised after they inhaled toxic fumes at a textile factory in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Sunday, police said.

13.A tigress from Maharashtra has been brought to Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district. The Forest Department brought the tigress from Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) under a translocation project.

14.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi directed officials to assess the losses caused due to Cyclone ‘Dana’, following an aerial visit of the affected areas in the State.

15.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Ayushman Bharat Yojana across the country on October 29 while inauguarting a Centre of Excellence Ayurvedic hospital and a Central Drug Testing Laboratory in Odisha.