1.A Constitutional Amendment Bill, popularly being referred to as the Bill on 'One Nation, One Election' for holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections simultaneously, is likely to be introduced in Parliament Tuesday and could be referred to a joint committee of the two Houses.

2.The state government has been planning to set up a new cybercrime wing within Odisha Police to meet the new age challenges, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said Monday.

3.In a first in Odisha, a local court in Boudh Monday convicted eight persons of killing an elephant and removing its tusks for pecuniary gains in the district in 2016.

4.The Bhitarkanika National Park under this block in Kendrapara district will be shut for visitors from January 14 for the annual crocodile census, a report said Monday.

5.The Supreme Court Monday asked how raising the slogan of “Jai Shri Ram” a criminal offence.

6.The BJP Monday asked former Congress president Sonia Gandhi to return the correspondences of India’s fi rst Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with a host of personalities to the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library, saying the historical documents belonged to the country and were not anyone’s personal property.

7.Those raising questions on Electronic Voting Machines should give a demonstration of any “discrepancies” to the Election Commission, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee said Monday.

8.Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has unclaimed maturity amounts of `880.93 crore in 2023-24, Parliament was informed Monday.

9.The rupee depreciated by 11 paise to close at an all-time low level of 84.91 against the US dollar Monday, dragged down by a negative trend in domestic equities.

10.Wholesale price based inflation declined to a 3-month low of 1.89 per cent in November on cheaper food items, and experts predicted a 0.25 per cent interest rate cut by the RBI in the policy review in February.

11.Ukraine said Monday that North Korean units fi ghting for Russia sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded around several villages on the front in Russia’s Kursk region over the weekend.

12.“Land grabbers must be dealt with iron hand,” the Supreme Court Monday said, as it promised to “go deep to find the truth” on how a centuryold building housing a public library at Karol Bagh was demolished.

13.The Supreme Court Monday said the petitions of e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart challenging an order of the Competition Commission of India ordering a probe against them for alleged malpractices should be transferred to the Karnataka High Court.

14.Eminent Sanskrit scholar Narasingha Charan Panda has been selected for the prestigious Bagdevi Samman-2024 by the Keshab-Subhadra Foundation.

15. Odisha’s Opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD), headed by former chief minister Naveen Patnaik, has not taken any decision on the proposed no-confi dence motion by the INDIA bloc against Rajya Sabha (RS) Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.