📌Puri Jagannath Temple Committee member calls for ban on New Year midnight darshan.
📌Dhwaja Bandha ritual timing at Puri Jagannath temple changed for New Year. The ritual, which is usually held at around 5.00 PM, will conclude by 3.00 PM.
📌Bhubaneswar Shikharchandi hills reopen to visitors as tusker duo returns to Bharatpur forest after staying for around six days in hill.
📌G. Udayagiri recorded the lowest minimum temperature in Odisha at 3.5 degrees Celsius; IMD issues fresh warning for 5 days.
📌Odisha Government hikes monthly allowance for over 47,000 traditional artists under Mukhyamantri Kalakar Sahayata Yojana. Artists aged 40 to 80 years will receive Rs 3,000 per month, Artists above 80 years will receive Rs 3,500 monthly.
📌Migrant Workers assaulted at Balasore Railway Station late last night; asked to show Aadhaar Cards. Workers asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. Anger against Bangladeshis leading to panic situation.
📌Odisha Government has scrapped the proposed Samakoi Chakdar irrigation project in Telkoi area of Keonjhar district.
📌Delhi’s air quality ‘severe’ with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) settling in the ‘severe’ category at 402.
📌Andhra Pradesh: One dead as two bogies of Tata-Ernakulam Express catch fire.
📌Bihar: Several flights cancelled at Patna airport amid foggy conditions.
📌Delhi bound Air India Express flight from Goa diverted to Ahmedabad due to dense fog.
📌IndiGo cancels over 70 flights as dense fog triggers disruption; Air India, SpiceJet issue advisories.
📌Actress Twinkle Khanna turns 52 today.
📌Silver prices hit record high of Rs 2.54 lakh per kg in futures trade.
📌Sensex up 22.24 points to 85,063.69 in early trade; Nifty gains 16 points to 26,058.30.
📌Rupee falls 5 paise to 89.95 against US dollar in early trade.
📌Mexico: 13 killed, 98 injured as passenger train derails on Isthmus of Tehuantepec Railway.
