1.Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed Wednesday morning in a crash of a Jaguar trainer aircraft near Churu in Rajasthan.

2The state government has reintroduced the ‘pass-fail system’ in Class V and VIII annual examinations from the current academic year, an official notification said Wednesday.

3.Eleven persons, including two siblings, were killed and nine others rescued, some of them with injuries, after multiple vehicles plunged into the Mahisagar river when a portion of a fourdecade-old bridge collapsed in Vadodara district .

4.Vehicular movement in different parts of Odisha, including the capital, was affected Wednesday due to strike by trade unions and drivers’ associations.

5.A local court here Wednesday granted bail to BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan, who was arrested in a case involving the physical assault of a senior Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) offi cer in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) .

6.Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will address a mega rally in Bhubaneswar July 11, following which they will hold closed-door meetings with leaders of the party’s state unit.

7.Senior IPS officer Sanjeeb Panda was Wednesday posted as the Additional Director General (ADG), Anti-Naxal Operations.

8.The BJP government in the state will soon expand its Council of Ministers, the party’s state president Manmohan Samal said .

9.Bhubaneswar. The CID of Odisha Police arrested a man from Punjab on the charge of defrauding a person of Rs7.50 crore in Koraput district on the pretext of higher return in a fake IPO scheme.

10.Odisha was recognised as the best state for agriculture and received the Agriculture Leadership Award from the Agriculture Today Group .

11.In a move to strengthen urban sanitation, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently inaugurated three modern public toilets at key City locations.

12.Guwahati,Human-elephant conflicts in Assam have claimed over 1,400 lives during 2000-2023, while 1,209 pachyderms died in the state during the same period with majority 626 fatalities due to anthropogenic activities, a Wildlife Institute of India (WII) report has said.

13.To further strengthen the fight against tuberculosis, the Union Health Ministry will soon procure 1,500 more handheld X-ray machines to facilitate large-scale screening and early detection of cases, offi cial sources said.

14.The Supreme Court has initiated a suo motu case over the issue of investigation agencies summoning lawyers who offer opinion or represent parties in cases to examine if they can be put to notice

15.India's space regulator INSPACe has granted a licence to Elon Muskrun Starlink to offer spacebased internet services in the country.