1.Festive Cheer for 11.4 Lakh Railway Employees: Union Cabinet Approves 78 Days’ Bonus Worth Rs 2,009 Crore.

2.​CJP Leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka Sent to 5-Day Judicial Custody Over Jantar Mantar Breach.

3.​The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Election Commission of India (ECI) after the poll body stated it was unable to trace the original video recording of the 2023 vote count in Karnataka’s Sringeri assembly constituency.

4.The family of Saurabh Rajput, former Merchant Navy officer, whose body was found stuffed inside a blue drum after his cold-blooded murder by his wife Muskan and her lover, Sahil Shukla, welcomed the capital punishment for the duo, as awarded by the district court Wednesday.

5.The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered a joint committee probe into allegations of illegal construction of commercial structures on forest land after clearing trees by a park and resort at Kotagada village under Ranpur tehsil in Nayagada district.

6.Researchers at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, have developed a material from discarded jackfruit peels that can remove more than 90 per cent of fluoride from contaminated water in about 10 minutes under laboratory conditions, officials said Wednesday.

7.According to an Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) report, around 9,000 complaints have been lodged against the state police with the OHRC. Of those, more than 300 cases pertain to sexual harassment by police personnel in the past nine years.

8.India’s wholesale price-based inflation rose to 11.39 per cent in September, compared to 9.92 per cent in August, on rising prices of food, manufactured items, and fuel and power,  government data showed Wednesday.

9.Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Headquarters Investigation Unit, New Delhi, has seized assets worth Rs 2,032.81 crore in India belonging to Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power Ltd (RPL) under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).

10.National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) will be renamed the ‘Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana’, while its pension and family benefit components will also be renamed.

11.The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved an outlay of Rs 53,428 crore for the continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) for five years, from 2026-27 to 2030-31, with revised eligibility criteria and assistance rates for disability pension beneficiaries.

12.The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) will implement 10 new Town Planning (TP) schemes in the Odisha capital.

13.Forest officials rescued a 14.5-feet-long Burmese python from Barakolikhol village under Batighar gram panchayat in Mahakalapada block of Odisha’s Kendrapada district late Tuesday night.

14.Nandankanan Zoological Park in Odisha welcomed a new lion cub on Tuesday evening after lioness Shreya gave birth to her first offspring.  With the birth of the cub, the total lion population at Nandankanan has increased to 23. The zoo now houses 13 male lions, nine lionesses and the newborn cub.

15.The Sinapali police in Nuapada district successfully rescued 17 migrant workers—including young children—in two separate operations near Godal Chhak.