1.The US Saturday rejected the BJP’s allegations that organisations funded by the US State Department and elements in the American ‘deep state’ were behind attempts to destabilise India through targeted attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business tycoon Gautam Adani.

2.The Odisha government Saturday told the Assembly that a total of 11,710 children in the state are suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM).

3. KIIT and KISS founder, a wellknown social worker and educationist, Achyuta Samanta was conferred with his 62nd honorary doctorate by Poornima University, Jaipur (Rajasthan), at the university’s convocation ceremony Saturday.

4.Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated the east side (National Highway side) station building at Cuttack railway station Saturday evening.

5.Michael Kremer, 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor at University of Chicago visited Krushi Bhawan here, Saturday and learned about the progress of state’s agriculture sector.

6.President Droupadi Murmu Saturday laid the foundation for six projects in the state, including three new railway lines, worth a total of Rs6,400 crore.

7.Sikkim University has allowed one day menstrual leave per month for female students, according to a notification.

8.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will embark on a three-day trip to Russia Sunday to witness the commissioning of a stealth warship into the Indian Navy and hold talks with his Russian counterpart Andrey Belousov on the expansion of bilateral cooperation in co-production of military hardware.

9.The election to the post of the Speaker of the newly constituted 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly will be held Monday. According to the poll schedule released by the state legislature secretariat, the candidates will have to submit their nominations by 12 pm Sunday.

10.Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Devender Yadav Saturday concluded his month-long Delhi Nyay Yatra, which covered all the 70 Assembly constituencies, and said Delhiites now want good governance which can be delivered only by the Congress.

11.A group of people set fi re to an ISKCON temple in Dhaka district in Bangladesh in the early hours of Saturday. While ISKCON Bangladesh said it was a “family temple” belonging to an ISKCON devotee, the organisation's Kolkata offi ce said “ISKCON Namhatta Centre” was targetted.

12.Seventy-three complaints have been received against obscene and vulgar advertisements on private television channels by the regulatory bodies over the past three years, the government has told parliament.

13.The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has deeply impacted the traditional beedi industry, a cornerstone of rural livelihoods in India.

14.India co-sponsored a UN General Assembly draft resolution that was unanimously adopted to proclaim December 21 as World Meditation Day.

15.Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said the Doordarshan will start news bulletins in Santali within a week. Vaishnaw.