📌Cold wave grips Odisha; Similipal shivers at zero degree Celsius. 23 cities across the state have recorded temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius.
📌With 9.4 degrees Celsius, Bhubaneswar records 3rd Coldest January Night since 1952.
📌Bhubaneswar faces 65.5 MLD water deficit; Odisha Government orders fast-tracking of projects.
📌Congress Leader & Hinjili MLA Candidate Ranjikant Padhi attacked by Sand Mafia’s goons at Rushikulya River Sand Ghat on January 6.
📌Bhubaneswar court bars popular Odia Jatra actor Piyush Tripathy from performing on stage.
📌Over 600 Odia workers among 1,500 Indians are stranded in Uzbekistan, protesting unpaid salaries for months.
📌An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Kathua district, one security person injured.
📌Noted ecologist Madhav Gadgil passes away in Pune. He was 83.
📌Agnivesh Agarwal, the eldest son of mining billionaire Anil Agarwal, passed away in US. He was 49.
📌Ashes fifth Test: Australia defeat England by five wickets, clinch five-match series 4-1.
📌United States steps up action against ‘illicit oil trade’, seizes Russian-linked tanker, dark fleet ship.
📌US to take 30–50 million barrels of oil, proceeds to benefit Venezuelan people: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
📌Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Azizur Rahman Musabbir shot dead in Dhaka.
📌Pakistan confirms talks with Bangladesh on potential JF-17 fighter jet sale, defence pact.
