🔹Odisha sees further decline in daily COVID-19 cases; the State reports 403 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours including 48 between 0-18 years age group; Khordha reports 81 and Sundargarh reports 66 fresh covid-19 cases today. Active cases stands at 3966.
🔹Swearing-in-Ceremony of newly appointed Orissa High Court judges – Gourishankar Satapathy and Chittaranjan Dash is scheduled to be held at 3.30 pm today.
🔹Fresh low pressure likely to intensify into depression by August 14: India Meteorological Department (IMD).
🔹 ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign kicked off across the country today to mark 75th year of Independence.
🔹India reports 15,815 fresh cases and 20,018 recoveries in the last 24 hours. Active cases stands at 1,19,264.
🔹Spurious liquor death toll in Chhapra, Bihar, rises to 5.
🔹Comedian Raju Srivastava continues to be on ventilator & remains critical.
🔹Salman Rushdie on Ventilator after stabbing in neck and abdomen, attacker identified as Hadi Matar, 24, from New Jersey.
🔹The ‘barbaric’ stabbing of renowned India-donpato author Salman Rushdie is appalling, says White House advisor Jake Sullivan.
🔹Taliban’s Rahimullah Haqqani killed in suicide blast claimed by ISIS.
🔹China sanctions Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Transport, Agne Vaiciukeviciute for Taiwan visit. Chinese president Xi Jinping plans to meet US President Joe Bidenin November.
