1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttarakhand on Thursday to review the devastation caused by the relentless monsoon that has battered every district of the state.

2.Members of the Thadou tribe held a protest in Assam's Guwahati on Wednesday seeking justice for Thadou leader Nehkam Jomhao, who was tortured and killed by Kuki insurgents in Karbi Anglong last month.

3.Justice Shekhar Yadav of the Allahabad High Court said that due to the advent of mobile phones, communication between family members has come to an end, leading to loneliness and forcing people to commit suicide.

4.The Special Investigation team, which was probing a Pakistan national and his alleged connection with Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi's wife Elizabeth Coulburn, has submitted its report this evening to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

5.India continue unbeaten run with comfortable 4-2 win over Korea in their fi rst Super 4 stage match of women’s Asia Cup hockey.

6.The Election Commission will soon decide on the date to rollout special intensive revision on a pan-India basis and the exercise to clean up the voter list across states may take place before the end of the year, officials said Wednesday.

7.The Centre Wednesday told the Supreme Court that 90 per cent of the bills passed by state assemblies since 1970 have received gubernatorial assent within a month whereas assents were withheld by governors only in 20 instances of the total 17,150 bills.

8.The Odisha government has decided to conduct a field-level inquiry into the eligibility of around 2.85 lakh beneficiaries who were excluded from receiving the third instalment of the Subhadra scheme, Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida said Wednesday.

9.The state Cabinet, in its 26th meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday, approved five major proposals across various departments.

10.The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to pay an exemplary fine ofRs2 lakh to the decree holders in a civil case that dragged on for more than three decades.

11.According to Home department data, 5,649 people, including 119 students, died by suicide in 2021. The figure rose to 6,140, including 173 students, in 2022 and 5,989 in 2023.

12.Head injuries led to the death of at least 1,696 two-wheeler users in Odisha last year, all of whom were not using helmets while on road, according to data released by the Commerce and Transport (C&T) department Wednesday.

13.An adulterated milk manufacturing unit was busted in Cuttack district, police said Wednesday.

14.India has slammed Pakistan at the UN Human Rights Council, saying it doesn’t need lessons from a “terror sponsor” that continues to fi nance and shelter the very networks that threaten global security.

15.Nepalese troops Wednesday patrolled the streets to restore order and to quell possible violence “under the guise of agitation” as the Himalayan nation slowly returned to normalcy, a day after violent demonstrations forced Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign.