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• 1. INS Vikrant, India's first home-built aircraft carrier, will be formally commissioned today after completing almost a year of sea trials. The 45,000-tonne warship has been built at a cost of ₹ 20,000 crore.
  2. The Delhi High Court recently said that no property can be demolished on the ground of unauthorised construction without giving the owner an opportunity for a hearing.
  3. The Taiwanese army has shot down a Chinese spy drone that entered its airspace. Earlier, despite repeated warnings from Taiwan, Chinese drones were infiltrating and taking pictures of important places।
  4. India’s first indigenously developed quadrivalent Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer will be launched in a few months and made available to the people in an affordable price range of `200- `400, Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla said Thursday.
  5. The recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data on children who have gone missing in Odisha once more portrays how unsafe kids are in the state. The report states that cases of abduction and kidnapping of children have gone up by 42% in 2021 in comparison to 2020.
  6. The Supreme Court Thursday directed the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to submit reports on the alleged attacks on the Christian community in Odisha and seven other states and also give details about the action taken on such cases within two month.
  7. Poverty & Human Development Monitoring Agency (PHDMA), the apex monitoring and evaluation (M&E) body of the state government, is going to initiate an ambitious project of extending its continuous monitoring processes covering 6,794 gram panchayats (GPs) of Odisha by October 2, 2023.
  8. The state government, on the occasion of Nuakhai, Thursday provided financial assistance of Rs 2000 to 41.85 lakh small and landless farmers of the state under the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme.
  9. While the Modi Government ministers are congratulating each other over the 13.5 per cent GDP growth, the real truth is that the Indian economy has grown only 3.3 per cent in last 3 years said Mallikarjun Kharge  
  10. Addressing a press conference here, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra Thursday junked last week's forecast of early withdrawal of southwest monsoon and announced the extended stay of the seasonal showers.
  11. The Delhi Assembly Thursday passed the confidence motion tabled by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, which saw only AAP legislators vote while all eight BJP MLAs were either marshalled out or they voluntarily staged a walkout.
  12. : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India from September 5 to 8, with a focus on strengthening the “multifaceted” bilateral tie.
  13. Delhi returned to the old excise policy regime within a year Thursday with the opening of nearly 350 government-run liquor vends and exit of private players from retail business, even as liquor lovers rued the absence of their favourite brands as well as discounts..
  14. Digital payment transactions value through UPI rose to `10.73 lakh crore in August this year, up marginally from the previous month, data showed Thursday.
  15. The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld the life sentence awarded to two men convicted of gang-rape and murder of a woman in 2012, saying the brutality showed the "depraved and evil" mentality of the convicts.

   

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