Odisha News
➡️ Odisha reports 1078 COVID-19 cases on Thursday including 646 quarantine and 461 local contact cases.
➡️ Khordha reports 397 fresh Covid cases followed by Cuttack (130).
➡️ Odisha reports single-day spike of 67 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours including Cuttack (18), Khordha (11), Sambalpur (9), Jajpur (5), Mayurbhanj (4), Kendrapara (4). With this, the Covid-19 death toll in Odisha has gone up to 6,697.
➡️ As many as 64,802 samples were tested yesterday in Odisha.
➡️ Puri Jagannath Temple reopens for family members of the servitors after 4 months of closure.
➡️ Police and public face-off during a protest opposing mega piped water project near Kharasrota River in Bharigada #Kendrapara
➡️ +2 admission process starts today in Odisha.
India News
➡️ India reports 41,195 new COVID 19 cases in the last 24 hours, lowest in 140 days.
➡️ Active cases stands at 3,87,987. Recovery Rate is currently at 97.45%.
➡️ 48,73,70,196 samples tested till 11th August 2021, for COVID-19. Of these 21,24,953 samples were tested yesterday: ICMR.
➡️ More than 54.04 crore (54,04,78,610) vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far.
➡️ Himachal Pradesh: 13 bodies found so far, 25 feared trapped in Kinnaur landslide.
➡️ ISRO’s GSLV F10 Mission fails after Cryogenic stage malfunction.
➡️ Opposition leaders march towards Vijay Chowk from Parliament demanding repeal of Centre’s three farm laws.
➡️ Rupee surges 17 paise to 74.27 against US dollar in early trade.
➡️ Sensex rises 155.90 pts to 54,681.83 in opening session, Nifty inches 42.90 pts higher at 16,325.15.
World News
➡️ Global coronavirus cases tops 204.6 Million, death toll surge to more than 4.32 Million.
➡️ Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani tries to unite warlords as Taliban advance.
➡️ New York to get first female Governor after Andrew Cuomo’s resignation.
➡️ As Taliban advance, Afghanistan’s finance minister quits job.
➡️ More Countries, Territories report Covid Variants: WHO.
➡️ Joe Biden to host democracy summit in December.