1.Odisha Chief Electoral Officer, RS Gopalan Monday held a detailed discussion with the representatives of different political parties of the state to revise the voter list for the year 2025 and to prepare a new and error-free final voter list.

2.President Droupadi Murmu will present the National Water Awards 2023 Tuesday. In the fifth edition of the awards, Odisha has secured the first prize in the ‘Best State’ category, with Uttar Pradesh following in second place. Gujarat and Puducherry have jointly claimed the third spot.

3.President Droupadi Murmu’s scheduled three-day visit to Odisha from Wednesday has been postponed in view of the impending cyclone that is likely to hit the state's coast October 25. Murmu was scheduled to visit Bangriposi, Uparbeda, Rairangpur, Puri and Bhubaneswar during her stay.

4.Supreme Court’s guidelines stress the responsibility of local Panchayats, school authorities, and child marriage protection officers in ensuring no child marriages take place within their jurisdictions.

5.The state government Monday announced closing of all the schools in 14 districts from October 23 to 25, in view of ‘Dana’. Schools will remain shut in Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bha-drak, Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Angul, Khurda, Nayagarh and Cuttack.

6.Ahead of Diwali, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday announced a 3 per cent hike in dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) for state government employees and pensioners.

7.The Supreme Court Monday stayed the operation of the communications issued by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) urging states to shift students of unrecognised madrassas to government schools.

8. The Supreme Court Monday said “Secularism” has always been held to be part and parcel of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution.

9.A girl hailing from the primitive Bonda community from Bonda ghat under Mudulipada police limits and Khairaput block in this district became the first woman of the tribal community to crack the prestigious Odisha Civil Services (OCS) examination.

10. Karnataka has registered a robust GSDP growth of 10.2 per cent in 2023-24, the state government said Monday.

11.The newly elected members of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly were administered oath Monday by protem speaker Mubarak Gul, with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah taking the pledge in the Kashmiri language.

12.The Election Commission Monday appointed Jharkhand cadre senior-most IPS officer Ajay Kumar Singh as the state DGP, sources said, days after the poll panel removed Anurag Gupta as the acting police chief.

13.The Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to produce within three weeks the original records relating to its decision to block a 2023 two-part BBC documentary series on the 2002 Gujarat riots.

14.The demolition of three unauthorised storeys of the disputed Sanjauli mosque in Shimla started Monday after permission was granted by the Waqf Board, the president of the mosque’s managing committee Muhammad Latif said.

15.Israeli forces blew up homes and besieged schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday as they deepened their operations in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and medics said.