Odisha News
? Odisha to allow use of Favipiravir (anti-viral drug) for treatment of COVID-19 patients in home isolation.
? Odisha records 4098 Covid-19 Recoveries today including 704 from Khordha, 386 from Cuttack, 336 from Baleswar and 209 from Nuapada. The total recovered cases of the State now stand at 206400.
? Bhubaneswar reports 319 new COVID-19 cases including 92 Quarantine and 227 local contact cases: taking the total positive cases to 23549 in the Capital City.
? 315 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the disease in the Capital city in the last 24 hours.
? Deputy Commissioner of Cuttack Municipal Corporation Biswanath Lenka dies of COVID-19.
? Odisha School & Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash and BJD MLA Umakanta Samantray booked for attending Pradeep Maharathy’s funeral by violating COVID-19 norms.
? Odisha Plus II Admission: Merit list of second selection out.
? Saroj Kumar Mishra takes charge as Jagatsinghpur Collector.
India News
? DRDO successfully flight tested the Supersonic Missile assisted release of Torpedo, SMART. This will be a major technology breakthrough for stand-off capability in anti-submarine warfare.
? PM Modi inaugurates RAISE 2020 – a Mega Virtual Summit on Artificial Intelligene.
? LeT behind terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore, two CRPF jawans martyred and three injured.
? UN in India issues statement over Hathras incident.
? An unidentified person throws ink at Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh who was in Hathras along with a delegation of AAP leaders to meet the family of the victim.
? Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal slams U.P Govt after the ink attack.
? Arunachal ambush: Ulfa (I) claims responsibility after Assam Rifles jawan dies
? Former Union Minister Rasheed Masood died at 73 after recovering from COVID-19.
? Former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court Justice K.K Usha passes away.
World
? US-British trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for Hepatitis C discovery
? The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
? XII BRICS Summit to be held on November 17 via videoconference.
? About 26 animals that come in regular contact with people may be vulnerable to Covid virus.