1.NASA’s Sunita Williams - one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station - has retired. The space agency announced the news Tuesday, saying her retirement took effect at the end of December.

2.US President Donald Trump ruled out the use of force in his bid to control Greenland Wednesday, but said in a speech in Davos that no other country can secure the Danish territory.

3.Sabrina Carpenter is the first artist confirmed to be performing at the 2026 Grammy Awards. The Espresso hitmaker received six nods - and will grace the stage at Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena February 1.

4.The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has directed the Deputy Director of Mines (Khurda) to conduct an immediate enquiry into the allegations of illegal mining and violation of environment norms at Ramchandrapur Laterite Quarry-2 in the district.

5. Hailing the Mukhyamantri Kamadhenu Yojana, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday said Odisha has produced 1.35 lakh litres more milk in the last one and a half years.

6.The Opposition BJD Wednesday slammed the state government for the proposed termination of direct flight service between Bhubaneswar and Dubai, saying it exposes the inefficiency of the government to safeguard the larger interest of air travellers to the global travel hub.

7.The Cuttack District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed an insurance company to pay Rs 56.9 lakh as compensation to the family of a policyholder who died after failing to pay a premium while bedridden due to illness.

8.In a move towards child-centric urban development, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UNICEF to create child-friendly public spaces across the City.

9.Town Police in Bargarh seized 5,050 bottles of cough syrup and arrested six persons, including a woman, during a raid at an under-construction building near Bargarh-Katapali Road Wednesday. Two juveniles were also detained for their involvement in the offence, police said.

10.In a bizarre and a striking incident of Aadhaar goof-up, a farmer from Bijepur area in this district was deprived of selling his harvested paddy as his Aadhaar record erroneously showed him as ‘dead’.

11.A flawed question in the e-KYC process for the Ladki Bahin scheme has resulted in more than 24 lakh women beneficiaries in Maharashtra being wrongly classified as government employees, leading to the abrupt stoppage of their monthly financial assistance.

12.For months, Rajesh Kumar and Bindiya from Punjab’s Jalandhar are living between despair and acceptance, searching in Jammu for answers about their 22-year-old daughter and her friend, who went missing after a cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district in August last year.

13.The Supreme Court Wednesday said setting up of additional trial courts will make the judicial system “robust” as the accused will not be needed to come to the apex court for reliefs like bail or expeditious hearing in criminal cases.

14.An FIR was filed against the Election Commission in West Bengal's Purulia district in connection with the death of an 82-yearold man who allegedly ended his life due to "anxiety over the ongoing SIR", a senior officer said Wednesday.

15.A father-daughter duo, who alleged that they faced horrible conditions on an Air India Delhi-New York flight in 2023 with broken seats, unhygienic washrooms and poor food service, have been awarded Rs1.5 lakh compensation for the mental agony and harassment.