📌Puri gears up for New Year rush; more than 70 platoons of security personnel will be deployed across Puri for crowd and traffic management.
📌Serious errors have been detected in English New Year calendar published by SJTA; Lord Balabhadra has been placed in the position of Lord Jagannatha.
📌Zero Night: Twin City Cuttack, Bhubaneswar under tight security ahead of New Year.
📌Severe cold and dense fog disrupt normal life in Kandhamal, G Udayagiri recorded the lowest minimum temperature at 4.3 degrees Celsius.
📌ISRO conducts ground test of SSLV third stage at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
📌60 injured as two trains collide in tunnel at hydel project in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli.
📌Delhi Airport sees 148 flight cancellations due to low visibility conditions: issues passenger advisory in view of the existing fog conditions.
📌India becomes world’s fourth-largest economy, surpassing Japan: Government of India.
📌Sensex climbs 254.38 points to 84,929.46; Nifty up 89.15 points to 26,028.
📌Rupee falls 15 paise to 89.90 against US dollar in early trade.
📌India beat Sri Lanka by 15 runs in the fifth Women’s T20I in Thiruvananthapuram. Harmanpreet Kaur scored 68 off 43.
📌Damien Martyn, a former Australian cricketer, is currently in coma due to meningitis. He played 67 Tests for Australia.
