Odisha News
➡️ Odisha reports 169 COVID-19 cases on Saturday including 97 quarantine and 72 local contact cases.
➡️ Khordha reported 88 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours.
➡️ Cold wave grips Odisha; Daringbadi coldest at 6.5 degree Celsius.
➡️ Two minor brothers critical as mobile phone battery explodes at Dhobasila village in Balasore.
➡️ Odisha Government closes proceeding against IPS officer Satish Gajabhiye in 2015 in connection with a controversy over payment of reward money for anti-Naxal operation.
India News
➡️ India reports 7,145 new COVID-19 cases & 289 deaths in last 24 hours.
➡️ 1,36,66,05,173 vaccine doses administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive.
➡️ Active COVID-19 cases in India decline to 84,565 (lowest in 569 days).
➡️ 16 students of a school in Navi Mumbai corona infected.
➡️ 4 new cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus confirmed in Kerala; tally in state rises to 5.
➡️ Over 100 Omicron cases in India, Centre warns to avoid unnecessary travel, crowds.
➡️ ‘If India sees UK-like Covid spike, there will be 14 lakh cases daily’: Niti Aayog member Dr VK Paul.
➡️ 2 women naxals killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada.
➡️ Income Tax Raids at the house of Akhilesh Yadav’s close Friend Jainendra Yadav, Manoj Yadav & Samajwadi Party Spokesperson & Party’s National Secretary Rajiv Rai as well as Akhilesh’s PA Neetu Yadav.
➡️ Telangana: Combined Graduation Parade (CGP), Autumn Term 2021 underway at Air Force Academy, Dundigal.
➡️ Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni to launch a new political party today in Chandigarh.
➡️ Madhya Pradesh Energy Minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar cleaned the toilet of a govt school in Gwalior.
World News
➡️ Amazon fined Rs 202 cr for contraventions in India
➡️ Closing Schools Should Be Last Resort In Omicron Fight: Unicef
➡️ Sputnik V COVID vaccine effective against Omicron variant: Study.