📌 The inventory and verification of the Ratna Bhandar at the Jagannath Temple resumed today; inner sanctum remains closed for devotees.
📌Heavy hailstorms accompanied by strong winds swept across several parts of Odisha. Hailstones covered the roads in Patnagarh area of Balangir district.
📌Salia Sahi road in Bhubaneswar to open on April 30, informs Works Minister Prithviraj Harichandan.
📌Assam Assembly Polls: Polling parties prepare to leave to respective polling stations. Assam will vote in a single phase on April 9.
📌West Bengal Elections 2026: CM Mamata Banerjee holds a padyatra ahead of filing her nomination for the Bhawanipore constituency.
📌Veteran Congress leader Mohsina Kidwai passes away at 94.
📌Earthquake of magnitude 3.6 strikes Myanmar.
📌Stock markets cheer US-Iran ceasefire. Sensex opens in green; currently trading at 77,182.05, up by 2,565.47 points; Nifty 749.75 points up, currently trading at 23,873.40.
📌Rupee surges 50 paise to 92.56 against US dollar in early trade after US, Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire.
📌RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent. RBI projects GDP growth for 2026-27 at 6.9 per cent: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra.
📌U.S.–Iran agree 2 weeks ceasefire. Iran lists the 10-point proposal, which was reportedly accepted by US President Donald Trump, as “workable”.
📌Iran agrees to open Strait of Hormuz after Trump’s ceasefire announcement.
📌Iran, Oman to charge for the Strait of Hormuz passage under Iranian Military Coordination, during the two-week ceasefire. Hormuz was never a paid passage, but Trump’s aggression ensured it.
