1.Odisha Financial assistance under Subhadra Yojana will be credited to over 4.57 lakh beneficiaries within this month.

2.President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from 66 international organisations, including UN bodies and the India-led International Solar Alliance (ISA), calling the institutions ‘redundant’ and ‘contrary’ to America’s interests.

3.The High-Level Clearance Authority (HLCA), led by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, Thursday approved seven industrial projects worth Rs55,783 crore and having the potential to generate 14,507 jobs.

4.Agitating Odisha government doctors announced the suspension of their stir and assured the administration they would resume OPD services from Friday.

5.The mercury level dropped to zero degree Celsius in Mayurbhanj’s Similipal National Park even as the IMD warned of cold wave conditions in several districts of Odisha Thursday.

6.The fourth edition of the Odisha Polytechnic Ranking for the academic year 2023–24 was unveiled . Bhubanananda Odisha School of Engineering (BOSE), Cuttack.

7.Two tribal dominated villages under Narsinghpur block in Cuttack district have become the first fully solar-powered villages of the state following the project’s inauguration Thursday.

8.The Supreme Court Thursday said if the vice president can exercise the functions of the president in the absence of the president, then why cannot the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman exercise the functions of the chairman in the absence of the chairman.

9.Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta was appointed as the chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court .

10.A court in Thalassery Thursday sentenced seven RSS-BJP activists to life imprisonment in connection with the 2008 murder of a CPI(M) local leader.

11.Twelve newly-elected councillors in the Ambernath Municipal Council in the district, suspended by the Congress for joining a post-poll front led by the BJP, have formally joined the saffron party.

12.Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are in talks to convert about $2 billion of Saudi loans into a JF-17 fi ghter jet deal, two Pakistani sources said, deepening military cooperation months after the two nations signed a mutual defence pact last year.

13.Bangladesh’s interim government Thursday said it has asked its key missions in India, including at New Delhi, to suspend visa services over security concerns.

14.Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand recovered from an early setback to register two victories and emerge as joint leader with Nihal Sarin after six rounds of the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid here Thursday.

15.Still basking in the glory of their maiden ODI World Cup triumph, India’s effervescent women cricketers will return to competitive action in the fourth Women’s Premier League starting here Friday, kicking off their build-up to this year’s T20 World Cup.