Bhubaneswar, October 31 (IANS). The Government of Odisha has taken an important step to promote industrial development and entrepreneurship in the state. According to the notification issued by the Department of Revenue and Disaster Management on October 25, 2025, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and start-ups are exempted from the requirement to obtain permission for change of land use (CLU). This exemption is granted under Section 73 (C) of the Odisha Land Reforms Act, 1960 and is issued by SRO published in the Odisha Gazette (Extraordinary). Became effective at number 1373/2025. It has been clarified in the notification that this exemption will apply to two main categories of land. The first category includes MSMEs registered on the Udyam portal of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India. Their land or land owned by them, whose projects have been approved by the District Level Single Window Clearance Authority (DLSWCA), will come under the scope of exemption. The second category consists of startup entities registered under the ‘Startup Odisha’ initiative of the MSME Department, Government of Odisha. This facility will be available on the land owned or available for the establishment and operation of their business units. The government has attached some strict terms and conditions to this exemption so that it is not misused. The exemption will only apply to land used for genuine industrial, start-up or entrepreneurial activities. It will not apply to notified forests, protected areas, Coastal Regulation Zones (CRZ), defense lands, archaeological protected sites or lands subject to any other legal prohibition. If the land is used for any purpose other than the approved purpose, the exemption will automatically be canceled and all provisions of the OLR Act will apply. This move is considered a revolutionary initiative to attract investments and reduce bureaucratic hurdles in the state. This will boost the MSME sector, which is the backbone of Odisha’s economy. There are thousands of MSME units in the state, which play an important role in employment generation. There are already many young entrepreneurs benefiting under the Start-up Odisha initiative, and now this land use relaxation will help them start businesses faster. –IANS SCH Share this story Tags

Lucknow, October 31 (IANS). The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Friday released its joint resolution for the Bihar Assembly elections. Since then, politics has intensified. Taking a dig at Congress spokesperson Surendra Rajput, he said that an apology letter should be issued by the NDA. Surendra Rajput, while talking to news agency IANS, said, “The party that has been in government for 20 years, the party that has been in government for 20 years, the alliance that has been in government for 20 years, should it count its works? It should tell how the rats drank 9 crore liters of liquor? It should tell how the 8 liters are worth. crore? It should tell how many medical colleges it has built?” He said, “The NDA should say how many AIIMS they have built? They should tell how many government schools they have built, how many government universities they have built? They should tell how many factories they have built; if they have brought 20 factories in 20 years, then tell them? In today’s date, the NDA should apologize to the public and count the actions he said the Congress did. Yadav murder case, “This is the height of Jungle Raj in Bihar. We are tired of saying this, but Bharatiya Janata Party and its ecosystem keep making things against us. This is reminiscent of 2005, but as Uttar Pradesh ranks number one in murders and kidnappings and Bihar ranks second in kidnappings by 2025, it becomes clear that wherever the Bharatiya Janata Party is in power, the Constitution of the country does not apply. There, the police work on the orders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, not on the orders of the Constitution.” Jan Suraj Party candidate Piyush Priyadarshi went for election campaign with his supporters. During this, some people attacked his convoy with sticks and sticks. It is alleged that someone in the crowd also fired a bullet that killed him, and the case hit Dularch. –IANS SAK/VC Share this story Tags

New Delhi, October 31 (IANS). While providing information, OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman said that he reserved a Tesla car many years ago, but he never received the car. He had to wait a long time for this car and is now waiting for a refund. Altman shared the post on social media platform X and wrote: “I was very excited for the Tesla car. I also understand the delay. But this 7.5 year wait was too long for me.” Altman shared a screenshot from July 11, 2018 and informed that he reserved this car himself in 2018, for which he also paid a reservation amount of $45,000. This payment was also confirmed by the company. He then sent a second mail to the company to cancel his reservation for the Tesla car and demand a refund of the amount paid. But the email bounced back. In the third screenshot shared by him, the company’s email address is shown as not found. Currently, there is no response from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to this complaint made by Sam Altman about Tesla. It is also not clear whether any personal response was given to him by the company or not. Altman has not yet given any information about which Tesla model he booked. However, if reports are to be believed, it could be a Tesla Roadster. Meanwhile, Tesla has delivered its first car Model Y in India. The company delivered this car last month in September in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. This Tesla car was bought by Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik. On which the Minister of State for Transport said that his decision to buy the car was to spread awareness about electric mobility. –IANS SKT/ Share this story Tags

New Delhi, October 31 (IANS). While providing information, OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman said that he reserved a Tesla car many years ago, but he never received the car. He had to wait a long time for this car and is now waiting for a refund. Altman shared the post on social media platform X and wrote: “I was very excited for the Tesla car. I also understand the delay. But this 7.5 year wait was too long for me.” Altman shared a screenshot from July 11, 2018 and informed that he reserved this car himself in 2018, for which he also paid a reservation amount of $45,000. This payment was also confirmed by the company. He then sent a second mail to the company to cancel his reservation for the Tesla car and demand a refund of the amount paid. But the email bounced back. In the third screenshot shared by him, the company’s email address is shown as not found. Currently, there is no response from Tesla CEO Elon Musk to this complaint made by Sam Altman about Tesla. It is also not clear whether any personal response was given to him by the company or not. Altman has not yet given any information about which Tesla model he booked. However, if reports are to be believed, it could be a Tesla Roadster. Meanwhile, Tesla has delivered its first car Model Y in India. The company delivered this car last month in September in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. This Tesla car was bought by Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik. On which the Minister of State for Transport said that his decision to buy the car was to spread awareness about electric mobility. –IANS SKT/ Share this story Tags

Rampur, October 31 (IANS). As for the Bihar elections, Tejashwi Yadav was declared as the CM candidate by the Grand Alliance and Mukesh Sahni was declared as the Deputy CM candidate. But questions are being raised in Bihar that the person with 14 percent population has been declared as the CM and the person with 2.5 percent seafarer population has been declared as the deputy CM. At the same time, there is no representation of 19 percent Muslim population. On this Azam Khan said that whether we get any job or not, we should get peace of mind and not a life of terror. Speaking to IANS, senior SP leader Azam Khan said that I know where this question is coming from and I also know those who have raised the question. I don’t dig him, I have very good relations with him. I have an old relationship with him. My relationship with him and his politics has always been deep. But, even though he was so powerful, he could not bring about any great revolution in his kingdom. There will be many reasons for this, there is no time to debate them now. The question is not that if our population is more then we should demand the post of Wazir-e-Azam, yes it may be right to do so to some extent. Today there is something bigger than that. After leaving home, we should be relieved that our child returns safely. We want it. Becoming Deputy CM is not a big deal for us. In today’s politics, those who should not even become chiefs become deputy CMs. Azam Khan denied that Muslims were being used for votes. He said there must be some reason behind the people being used. But to say that Muslims are only used for votes is very insulting. We do not work to be used, but for our rights. If we are told in Uttar Pradesh that we were used, then it is wrong, we used our vote properly and did the basic work by the governments we elected. He said when I first became MLA in 1980, the roads here were worse than the rural areas. Here 95 percent of the houses were kutcha, there were no roads. These people couldn’t even repair what they built in 8-10 years. We built big schools to educate girls, used to charge fees, used to teach on government lines. The schools had a 99-year lease, they were vacated overnight. Furniture worth lakhs was not returned. We did a lot. Even today the people here know. On Owaisi not included in the grand alliance, the SP leader said, now see why those who included him did not give him place and why those who wanted him did not want him, what can I say about this? I wasn’t even involved in that process. The true representation of Muslims should be what it should be, just by wearing a cap one does not become the representative of Muslims. One does not become a representative of Muslims just by sitting with a cap. We have even seen people come to minority conferences of political parties with caps in their pockets, wear the cap while the conference is going on, and as soon as the conference is over, the cap goes back into the pocket. Then their religion becomes something else. The representation must be such that yes, it represents this community. About the post of deputy CM, he said there is no such post in the Constitution, it was created just to entertain. Now just look at Uttar Pradesh, there were two deputy CMs, but the poor people are helpless, there is no one to listen to them in their department. The cry is heard every day. What is the benefit? Unless it is a constitutional post and unless its provision is included in the Constitution, Deputy CM is not really a post at all. –IANS dkm/abm

Ahmedabad, October 31 (IANS). Adani Group company ACC Limited presented its results for the second quarter of FY26 on Friday. In the July-September period, the company’s profit increased 460 percent year-on-year to Rs 1,119 crore. During this period, the company’s volume was also at its highest ever level of 10 million tonnes. There was an increase of 16 percent on annual basis. The revenue of the fastest growing building materials and solutions company in the country increased by 28 percent year-on-year to a record Rs 5,932 crore in the second quarter of FY 26. “This quarter has been a pivotal one for the cement sector. Despite the challenges of protracted monsoon, the sector will benefit from several favorable decisions on reforming Car2 trade, including Car2 trade schemes0, GTS-Credit. withdrawal of coal cess,” says Vinod Baheti, Whole-Time Director and CEO, ACC Ltd. “These developments will support stable demand momentum going forward. The Salai Banwa, Kalamboli expansion projects will add 3.4 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to production this year. The company’s net worth increased by Rs 1,151 crore to Rs 19,937 crore in the September quarter. ACC also remains debt-free and is rated CRISIL AAA (Stable)/CRISIL A1 Plus, which is the best rating. Baheti said as part of the larger Adani Cement family and under Ambuja Cements, ACC benefits from the group’s integrated ecosystem, including logistics, renewable energy and innovation.The company said GST reforms have led to a reduction in cement prices, which has helped interested customers buy Adani Cement’s premium products. –IANS ABS/ Share this story Tags

The outstanding performance of “Thamaa” at the box office is gradually approaching the lifetime earnings of many big films of this year. This film is soon going to be included in the list of top 10 highest grossing films of 2025. Fans are hopeful that this film can become the biggest film of Ayushmann Khurrana’s career. However, to do so, the film will have to overcome three hurdles at the box office. What are these three hurdles, they are: What are the highest grossing films of Ayushmann Khurrana? “Thama” has already become the fourth highest-grossing film of Ayushmann Khurrana’s career, but it will have to surpass these three films to take the number one spot. Dream Girl – ₹141.3 crore Bath Shark Ho – ₹137.31 crore Bala – ₹116.38 crore How much will Ayushmann Khurrana’s ‘Thama’ earn? “Thamaa” earned ₹108.4 crore in its extended 10-day week. As of 4:05 PM today, the film has earned ₹84 lakh, taking its total to ₹109.24 crore. However, this data available on SciNick is not final and is subject to change. Now it is clear that “Thamaa” will have to earn ₹5 crore more to overtake the third film in the list, ₹25 crore more to overtake the second film and ₹30 crore more to take the first position. As the film enters its second weekend, it is possible that it may cross some of these milestones. Was “Thama” a hit or not? For a film to be considered a hit, it must earn almost double its budget. According to Times of India, the film has a budget of ₹145 crore, and earned ₹148.75 crore worldwide in 10 days. This means the film has recovered its budget but still has a long way to go to become a hit. Starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Rashmika Mandanna, Paresh Rawal and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the film is produced by Aditya Sarpotdar. In an interview given to ABP News, he said that he never makes films keeping the box office in mind. However, if the film does well, he is happy to have recouped all his costs. Share this story Tags

Amid the ongoing tension at Sir Creek, India’s tri-exercise Trishul (October 30 – November 13) is being conducted in the Arabian Sea bordering Rajasthan, Gujarat and Pakistan. 20-25 Indian warships and more than 40 fighter jets are taking part in it. The Army’s Southern Command (Pune Headquarters), BSF and Coast Guard are also participating in full force. Director General of Naval Operations (DGNO) of the Indian Navy N. Pramod said at a press conference on Friday (October 31, 2025) that the purpose of the exercise is to promote synergy between all maritime forces and armed forces in a large, complex environment, thereby ensuring complete coordination and cooperation between the armed forces in a war situation. NOTAM issued in North Arabian Sea For the first time since Operation Sindoor, the three services – Army, Air Force and Navy – are conducting a joint exercise. In connection with this exercise, India has issued NOTAM (Notice to Air Forces) in Gujarat, Rajasthan and North Arabian Sea to ensure that there is no violation of airspace during the exercise. This is the first time in recent years that a joint exercise of the three armies of India is being conducted on the western border. The Indian Navy’s aircraft carrier INS Vikrant and its MiG-29K fighter jets are also participating in the exercise. Participating Indian Air Force Air Bases South Western Command of the Indian Air Force (headquarters at Gandhinagar) and all air bases in the region are participating in the exercise. According to reports, MiG-29, Sukhoi, Mirage and Jaguar fighter jets of the Air Force are taking part. In addition to fighter jets, reconnaissance aircraft and military transport aircraft are also part of the exercise. Vice Admiral Pramod also informed that apart from conventional warfare, this exercise is being conducted in the cyber and space domain as well. Pakistan fears the defense minister’s warning. In recent times, tensions between India and Pakistan have increased regarding Sir Creek area of ​​Gujarat. On the occasion of Dussehra, Rajnath Singh visited Sir Creek and performed Shastra Puja and warned Pakistan to desist from any heinous activities in the region. Rajnath Singh revealed that Pakistan has been keeping an eye on the region since the 1965 war. This is the reason why Pakistan is increasing its military deployment in its jurisdiction on Sir Creek. Rajnath Singh clearly said that if Pakistan makes any disaster in Sir Creek, the history and geography of Pakistan will change completely like the 1971 war. Pakistan’s activities in Sir Creek after Defense Minister’s visit Defense Minister even said that the route to Karachi passes through Sir Creek. Soon after Rajnath Singh’s visit, Pakistan Navy Chief Naveed Ashraf visited Sir Creek and deployed three gliders there.