1.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday urged people to wear Odisha’s handloom clothes for at least one day in a week, saying the sector contributes significantly to the rural economy and provides livelihood to over 1.30 lakh families in the state.

2.Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir is expected to visit the US this week for consultations with top American officials.

3.The initial 25 per cent tariffs announced by the US on Indian imports came into effect Thursday, with President Donald Trump saying billions of dollars from countries that have taken advantage of America will now start fl owing into the country.

4. NSA Ajit Doval said during his meetings in Moscow that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India and dates are being worked out, according to sources Thursday.

5.Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and 15 injured when a vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and rolled down into a nallah in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).

6.Former minister and ex-Deputy Speaker of Odisha Assembly, Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj, died in the wee hours of Thursday. He was 70.

7.The state government has signed 33 agreements with an investment proposal of Rs 7,808 crore for the establishment of textile industries in the state.

8.The mortal remains of the 19-year-old female college student of Kendrapara were consigned to flames Thursday, as the police authorities transferred an ASI accused of refusing to register her FIR six months ago.

9.Police have arrested three persons, including a minor, on the charge of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl for over a month in Mayurbhanj district, an officer said Thursday.

10.The ban on 25 books in Jammu and Kashmir is “regrettable” and an attempt “to warn Kashmiris against free speech”, authors and scholars reacted Thursday to the order of the Union Territory’s Home Department to forfeit these publications for promoting false narratives and secessionism.

11.The Kerala government’s claim that no public money would be spent to bring football legend Lionel Messi to the state has now been exposed as misleading.

12.The NCERT has set up an expert committee to examine the feedback received about its textbooks aligned with the new National Education Policy (NEP), officials said Thursday. The officials, however, did not clarify which textbook in particular will the panel examine.

13.The Enforcement Directorate cannot act like a “crook” and has to confi ne itself within the four corners of the law, the Supreme Court Thursday said as it flagged low conviction rates in cases investigated by the central agency.

14.Around 12,000 children aged under fi ve in Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition, and hunger-related deaths are rising, the Director General of the World Health Organization said Thursday.

15.Gold prices rallied `3,600 to hit a record high of Rs1,02,620 per 10 grams in the national capital Thursday as investors turned to safe-haven assets after the US administration announced a 25 per cent additional tariff on Indian imports.

16. Asserting that there was no ‘Phansi Ghar’ on Delhi Assembly premises, its Speaker Vijender Gupta said Thursday that the matter will be referred to the Privileges Committee for inquiry that will summon former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, along with others.

17.RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Wednesday charged the election authorities in Patna with faulting him for their “own mistake” by sending him a notice on having two EPIC numbers.

18.The Election Commission Thursday issued a notifi cation for the September 9 vice presidential poll, kickstarting the exercise to elect Jagdeep Dhankhar’s successor.

19.The mortal remains of the 19-year-old female college student of Kendrapara were consigned to flames Thursday, as the police authorities transferred an ASI accused of refusing to register her FIR six months ago.

20.The SC said the then CJI and the in-house committee scrupulously followed procedure except for uploading of the video footage and the photographs.