Justice Subhasis Talapatra today took oath as the 33rd Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court. Odisha Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal administered him the oath.

Justice Talapatra, who was working as a judge in the Orissa High Court, succeeded Justce Dr S Muralidhar following his superannuation yesterday.

The name of Justice Talapatra, as the Chief Justice, was recommend  by the Supreme Court Collegium last month which was later approved by the Central Government.

The Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad and Kathmandu University (KU) have agreed to offer a Joint Doctoral Programme (JDP) at the Ph.D. level in all areas of research. Several decisions to strengthen the ties between the two Institutes have been taken during the recent visit of the IIT-H delegation to KU. 

According to an official release, students from India and Nepal will have the opportunity to work on frontier areas of science, technology, design, and medical innovations under the programme. The students admitted to the JDP at KU will have an opportunity to spend up to one year at IIT-H, supported by an IIT-H scholarship during their stay at IIT-H and vice versa. This association is aimed at developing successful academic and research collaborations in the areas of common interest and complementary capabilities.

The Haryana government is planning to build a dam at a cost of 6,134 crore rupees. It will have a 14-km-long reservoir and will be built 4.5 km upstream from the Hathnikund Barrage in Yamunanagar district. Once the project is completed, the state will have greater availability of irrigation water, groundwater recharge, and aquaculture, apart from generation of 250 MW of electricity.

Its reservoir will have a capacity of 10.82 lakh cusecs. This is likely to prevent floods caused by the Yamuna in Delhi and in adjoining areas of the river in Haryana. The dam area also shares borders with Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

Parliament has approved the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023. Rajya Sabha passed the bill yesterday while Lok Sabha had cleared it on 1st of this month.
 
Replying to discussion on the bill, Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said, the bill has been brought to simplify the birth and death registration and it will be completely digital. He said the data received will help in making social schemes for the benefit of the people.

Mr. Rai said it will be a very important document for different works like getting driving licence and admission into educational institutions. The Minister said, according to the bill, the Birth and Death certificates can be received within seven days.

Women on the go will have to fly worriless as Delhi Airport has introduced multi-product feminine hygiene vending machines inside its premises. The state-of-the-art machines, installed outside women’s restrooms at terminal 2, will offer a wide range of sanitary products, including menstrual cups, tampons, sanitary pads, toilet seat covers, intimate wipes, and panty liners, said an official from the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL).

The move was initiated with an aim to enhance women’s hygiene accessibility at the airport, the official added. “These state-of-the-art vending machines offer an array of essential products for women, catering to their diverse hygiene needs. In the future, this initiative will be extended to Terminal 3 and Terminal 1 as well, ensuring that women travellers across the airport have easy access to these essential products,” said DIAL in a statement issued on Monday.

Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas overcame a spirited comeback from Alex de Minaur to capture the ATP 250 title at Los Cabos on late Saturday night, thereby also getting his first trophy of the season.

As per ATP, Tsitsipas clinched the 10th title of his career by defeating Minaur by 6-3, 6-4.

A group of former students of the College of Science and Technology have created Bhutan's first-ever prototype of electronic Dzongkha Braille, The Bhutan Live reported. The device developed by former college students is called as Digital Dzongkha Braille Board.

Initially, it was a college project, however, the innovation of young people has evolved into a passion to help the visually impaired people in reading and writing Dzongkha, according to The Bhutan Live report.

In Bihar, special art exhibition dedicated to G-20 member countries will commence in the Bihar Museum, Patna from today. The title of the two-month-long exhibition is Together We Art and it will conclude on 7th October 2023.

Director General of Bihar Museum Anjani Kumar Singh today said the exhibition will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The DG said 29 countries including India are participating in the exhibition which is organized by the Union Art and Culture ministry as part of India’s presidency of G-20 countries. Mr. Singh said along with the commemoration of the foundation day a five month long Bihar Museum Biennale 2023 will also begin.

ambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has appointed former Prime minister Hun Sen's son - Hun Manet- as the new prime minister of the country. A royal decree was issued today by the King stating that he appoints Dr. Hun Manet as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia for the 7th mandate of the parliament.

While the King has appointed Hun Manet as the PM, the leader and his cabinet must win the confidence vote on August 22 to assume office.

During the Cambodian Elections 2023, Hun Sen's party - the Cambodian People's Party - won with a landslide victory. Days after their victory, former PM Hun Sen announced that he will be stepping down as the Prime Minister, after assuming office in 1998.         

The government has informed that Yoga is recommended as an integral part of Health and Physical Education. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Union Minister of state for Education Annapurna Devi said that CBSE has made Health and Physical Education compulsory in all classes from 1 to XII. She said that the board has directed schools to keep one period of Health and Physical Education for them each day. The minister further mentioned that the government has included Yoga training in the Study in India   program to encourage yoga seekers from abroad to obtain authentic yoga training in India.