Morning News Insight – August 13, 2022

🔹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-born 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.
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