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• 1. Cuttack-based DRIEMS, the premier technical institution, will be accorded the unitary university status in Odisha. The state government in this regard has cleared the DRIEMS University, Odisha Act 2022 in Assembly yesterday.
  2. Tech giant Google on Tuesday expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages: Punjabi, Assamese, Gujarati, Odia and Malayalam.
  3. In the first ever 'State Ranking Index' under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) released on Tuesday, Odisha has topped the list of general category states while Tripura topped the list of special category states
  4. India on Tuesday recorded 13,086 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases to 4,35,31,650. India's death count rose to 5,25,242 with 19 new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours.
  5. A woman student in the Odisha state capital was found hanging at her rented house in Acharya Vihar area on Tuesday, police said.
  6. The Delhi government's debt increased by nearly seven per cent in the four-year period up to 2019-20 although it maintained a revenue surplus, according to a CAG audit report tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday.
  7. The Toronto-based Aga Khan Museum, which landed in trouble for the inappropriate depiction of Hindu Gods, has expressed deep regret for "inadvertently causing offence" to members of the Hindu and other faiths.
  8. Deputy Speaker of Delhi Assembly asked Marshals to remove all BJP MLAs from the Assembly after disruption over a debate on the issue raised by AAP MLAs over letters written for posting of DTC drivers.
  9. The Jharkhand High Court rejected a petition filed by Rahul Gandhi for quashing of a defamation case against him. Rahul Gandhi in one of his speech during 2019 Lok Sabha Polls said, "All people with Modi as their surnames are thieves."
  10. Days after he resigned as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said Eknath Shinde, who led the rebellion with party MLAs to bring down Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, backstabbed him.
  11. The Delhi government's draft aggregator policy mandates transition to an all-electric fleet for cab companies, food delivery firms and e-commerce entities by April 1, 2030 and proposes a fine of ₹ 50,000 per vehicle.
  12. UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet and the United States both called Tuesday for a swift investigation into the deadly clashes at mass protests in Uzbekistan.
  13. Canada became the first country to formally ratify Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO in an accelerated process completed shortly after member nations signed off on the nuclear-armed alliance's expansion on Tuesday.
  14. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said that the island country aimed to reduce the inflation rate to between 4 and 6 per cent by 2025.
  15. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday left parliament after members of the opposition hooted against him amid a deepening economic crisis in the country.

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