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Odisha approves ordinance to decriminalize minor offences

Bhubaneswar, Oct 11 (UNI) In an effort to reduce criminal proceedings and adjudication costs, the Odisha Government announced the approval of the Odisha Jan Vishwas Ordinance, 2025 to decriminalise minor and procedural regulatory offences, rationalise penalties, and eliminate redundant compliance burdens from selected State legislation.
Once the Ordinance takes the shape of State law, civil penalties will replace imprisonment for non-serious defaults and the regulatory burden on both businesses and individuals will ease significantly.
This shift promises faster dispute resolution, fewer court backlogs, lower legal costs, and improved administrative efficiency, a statement issued by the government said.
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NIA searches house of migrant labour in Murshidabad links to Delhi blast

12 Nov 2025 | 10:38 PM

Kolkata, Nov 12 (UNI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the Monday's Red Fort blast in New Delhi, today searched the house of a migrant labourer, identified as Moinul Hassan in West Bengal's Murshidabad's Nabagram area, in connection with the terror attack, official sources said.

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Tejashwi will struggle to get status of leader of opposition in assembly: BJP

12 Nov 2025 | 10:26 PM

Patna, Nov 12 (UNI) BJP on Wednesdayay said NDA would surpass the number of seats the exit polls have predicted for the coalition in the Bihar assembly polls and RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav would struggle to get even the status of the Leader of the Opposition.
National spokesman of BJP Shahnawaz Hussain, while reacting to Tejashwi's statement rejecting the findings of various exit polls, said it was surprising that a scientific analysis of agencies was rejected by the RJD leader whose credibility was nowhere, he remarked.

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1,315 Head Forest Guard posts to be created in Jharkhand: Cabinet

12 Nov 2025 | 10:01 PM

Ranchi, Nov 12 (UNI) The Jharkhand Cabiner on Wednesday approved the creation of 1,315 Head Forest Guard posts out of the total 3,883 sanctioned ones.

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Bengal: 47 lakh names of dead voters deleted, CEO office reviews SIR progress

12 Nov 2025 | 9:48 PM

Kolkata, Nov 12 (UNI: The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in West Bengal on Wednesday held a review meeting with Aadhaar authorities, where the UIDAI officials shared the names of nearly 47 lakh deceased individuals in the state from the Aadhaar database.

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Tejaswi rejects exit polls, says will take oath on Nov 18

12 Nov 2025 | 9:18 PM

Patna, Nov 12 (UNI) Rejecting the exit poll results, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejasvi Yadav on Wednesday asserted that the Grand Alliance (GA) was heading towards major victory and claimed that he will take oath as chief minister of Bihar on November 18.

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