1.The queue darshan system at Srimandir would start from January 20, Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan said here Tuesday.

2.The 5th National Chilika Bird Festival 2025 concluded on a high note, delivering a strong conservation message through a series of engaging events. The closing day featured a bird walk at Nandankanan Zoological Park, capping a week-long celebration of Odisha’s avian biodiversity.

3.The Khurda Road-Bolangir New Rail Line Project achieved a major milestone with the successful breakthrough of the tunnel located between Buguda and Banigochha in Nayagarh district, the East Coast Railway said.

4.FASTag system has been introduced on L&T Biju Expressway or State Highway-10, which extends from Rourkela to Jagdalpur in Chattisgarh, much to the ease of the commuters travelling on this busy road.

5.India Tuesday pressed Russia to release all the Indians recruited by the Russian military, following the death of another Indian national in the Russia-Ukraine confl ict zone, taking the death toll to 10.

6.The Election Commission (EC) has projected a requirement of 800 additional warehouses across the country to store EVMs and other equipment in case simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies are held.

7.Negotiators were meeting in Qatar Tuesday hoping to fi nalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza, after US President Joe Biden indicated a ceasefi re and hostage release deal was close, after 15 months of conflict that upended the Middle East.

8.A mega steel plant will soon be established in Keonjhar an agreement for which will be signed during the Utkarsh Odisha conclave.

9.State Fisheries and Animal Resources Development Minister Gokulananda Mallik Tuesday said the state government is planning to include 200 ml of fortified milk in mid-day meals for schoolchildren.

10.Seeking an apology from social media giant Meta for ‘tarnishing’ India’s image, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, will summon the firm following its chairman’s comments that India’s ruling dispensation lost the Lok Sabha election last year.

11.The World Heritage Certificate of Inscription from UNESCO for the Charaideo Maidams was received by Assam’s Culture Minister Bimal Bora in Paris.

12.Navy divers have been withdrawn from rescue operations at a coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district with the hope of survival of five trapped labourers appearing to be slim even as dewatering exercise entered the ninth day Tuesday, officials said.

13.NATO is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region after a string of incidents in the Baltic that have heightened concerns about possible Russian activities in the region, the alliance’s leader said Tuesday.

14.Wholesale price inflation rose to 2.37 per cent in December 2024, due to spike in prices of non-food articles, manufactured items as well as fuel and power, even though food items saw marginal easing, government data released Tuesday showed

15.More than 6 out of 10 consumers in different parts of the world, including India, are likely or very likely to consider an electric vehicle for their next purchase, although 60 per cent of them considered charging infrastructure as a major challenge, according to a study..