Odisha News
➡️ Bhubaneswar reports 334 more COVID positive cases & 229 recoveries in the last 24 hours including 248 local contact cases and 86 quarantine cases.
➡️ 1525 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the disease in Odisha in the last 24 hours. The total recovered cases of Odisha now stand at 968453.
➡️ Students in Odisha will be given 1 month time for application for admission into +2 courses.
➡️ 7 killed in lightning strike in Odisha.
➡️ Woman, including three police personnel injured in mob attack in Bhadrak.
➡️ Senior assistant of a District Medical Officer in Nuapada caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.
India News
➡️ India approves Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use.
➡️ Indian Army troops deployed at forward bases in Nyoma, Ladakh near the Line of Actual Control.
➡️ Policeman injured in militant attack in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir.
➡️ Kerala records 20,367 new COVID-19 cases,139 Deaths in last 24 Hours.
➡️ Neeraj Chopra wins Gold medal in Javelin with 87.58 m throw, first athletics Gold for India in Olympics.
➡️ Haryana Government announces 6 Crore Cash Prize and Grade I Government Job for Javelin Gold Medalist.
➡️ Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh announces a special cash reward of Rs 2 crores for Neeraj Chopra.
➡️ BCCI announces cash prize of Rs 1 Cr for gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, Rs 50 lakh each for silver medalists Mirabai Chanu & Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Rs 25 lakh each for bronze medalists PV Sidhu, Lovlina Borgohain & Bajrang Punia & Rs 1.25 Cr to Hockey Men’s Team.
➡️ Tokyo Olympics: Wrestler Bajrang Punia clinches bronze medal in men’s 65 kg wrestling at Tokyo Olympics.
World News
➡️ WhatsApp Head slams Apple over its Tools to curb Child abuse.
➡️ US Embassy Kabul urges US citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately.
➡️ Air India to operate direct flight services from Cochin International Airport to London, starting from 18th August.
➡️ Iran welcomes India’s role in ensuring security in Afghanistan: Iranian President Raisi to EAM Jaishankar.
➡️ US State Department announces five additions to global terrorist list.
➡️ Pakistan Minister tweets online petition to UK govt as India moves to ‘amber’ list.