Odisha News
? Odisha reports 263 Covid-19 cases including 151 quarantine and 112 local contact cases in 24 hours. Total cases now stand at 327542 including 322648 recoveries & 2991 active cases.
? Angul reports 45 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours followed by Sundargarh (41).
? Odisha reports 4 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours. Toll mounts to 1850.
? Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) had set up a help desk at the arrival of Biju Patnaik International Airport for passengers who have come from the United Kingdom.
? Nayagarh Paru murder case: Orissa High Court directs SIT to submit charge sheet; next hearing on January 16.
? Farmer trampled to death by a wild elephant at Kandarasinga village in Dhenkanal district.
? Cold wave grips Odisha. Yellow Warning issues for 11 districts (Mayurbhanj, Angul, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Sundergarh, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Koraput, Nuapada, Nabarangpur) on December 24.
? Maoists give Odisha bandh call on December 28 protesting the recent deaths of several Maoist cadres.
? Odisha Vigilance officials raids multiple places of Deputy Executive Engineer, R&B sub-division, Gunupur in DA Case.
? New Coronavirus Strain: Samples of Odisha Man with UK Travel History to undergo genome sequencing study.
? Kamalakanta Das, an under trial prisoner & owner of Hotel Solan dies in Jharpada Jail mysteriously.
? Zilla Parishad Bypolls Results: BJD wins Cuttack Sadar Block ZP Zone 7 elections by 9,221 votes. BJD wins Patnagarh AC Belpada Block ZP Zone 26 elections by 4,294 votes.
India News
? India records 19,556 new infections, 301 deaths in the last 24 hours.
? Total case tally stands at 1,00,75,116 including 2,92,518 active cases, 96,36,487 cured cases & 1,46,111 deaths.
? A total of 16,42,68,721 samples tested for COVID-19 up to December 22. Of these, 10,98,164 samples were tested yesterday: ICMR.
? Earthquake of magnitude 3.0 hits Nagaon in Assam, says National Center for Seismology.
? Congress march to Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi stopped; Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other Congress leaders detained.
? Congress Leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Chowdhury meet President Ram Nath Kovind; submit signatures of 2 crore farmers against Farm Laws.
? PM Modi addresses at the centenary celebrations of iconic Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal.
? Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde inaugurated e-service centre at the Tripura High Court in Agartala on Wednesday.
? Sikhs deliver hot meals to truck drivers stranded on UK’s border with France.
? India-Russia Annual Summit did not take place in 2020 because of COVID pandemic: MEA.
? BJP chief JP Nadda instructs MPs, MLAs & other party leaders to attend tomorrow’s programme at block level, which will be held for farmers to listen to PM Modi’s address on the occasion of PM-KISAN.
? Women infected with Covid-19 in 3rd Trimester are unlikely to pass Covid infection to newborns.
World News
? US President Donald Trump vetoes US defence budget.
? Global Covid-19 cases top 78.6 Million, Death toll crosses 1.72 Million.
? UK identifies another ‘yet more transmissible’ new variant of Covid-19 related to travel South Africa.