Odisha News
➡️ Odisha reports 64 Covid-19 cases including 37 quarantine and 27 local contact cases in 24 hours. Total positive cases now stand at 338056 including 335408 recoveries, 677 active cases and 1,910 deaths.
➡️ Maha Deep was placed atop Lingaraj Temple last night 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled time.
➡️ Simlipal Forest Fires: 4-Member Central Team will visit core area today.
➡️ Second phase of the Budget session in Odisha begins today.
➡️ Odisha Girl Tops in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main in West Bengal by securing 99.99%.
➡️ Customer throws hot oil on momo seller at Bhimpur in Bhubaneswar for delay in service.
➡️ A second-year student of VIMSAR, Burla in Sambalpur alleges ragging by senior students.
➡️ Petrol & Diesel price continues to rise in Bhubaneswar on Friday with petrol price recorded at Rs 91.90 per litre while the diesel price recorded Rs 88.79 per litre.
India News
➡️ India reports 23,285 new COVID-19 cases, 15,157 discharges and 117 deaths in the last 24 hours.
➡️ Total case tally stands at 1,13,08,846 including 1,97,237 active cases, 1,09,53,303 cured cases & 1,58,306 deaths.
➡️ Pune reports 2,840 new COVID 19 cases, 1,303 recoveries and 15 deaths in the last 24 hours.
➡️ PM Narendra Modi launches Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav’ Website.
➡️ COVID 19 can aggravate kidney Problems: Health Experts.
➡️ Amritsar: Train services resume after farm union suspended 169-day long ‘dharna’ on tracks ahead of the wheat harvest season.
➡️ Amrit Mahotsav programme begins from Sabarmati Ashram, from where Dandi March began. PM Modi inaugurates Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav in Ahmedabad.
➡️ National Testing Agency (NTA) releases admit card for the upcoming Joint Entrance Examination (Main)– 2021 for March Session.
➡️ Rupee jumps 20 paise to trade at 72.71 against US dollar in opening session.
➡️ Sensex jumps 442.03 points to 51,721.54 in opening session; Nifty advances 124.30 points to 15,299.10.
➡️ India’s ODI cricket captain Mithali Raj becomes first Indian batswoman to score 10,000 international runs: BCCI.
World News
➡️ Global coronavirus cases tops 118.4 Million, death toll surged to more than 2.60 million.
➡️ US President Joe Biden signs $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill into Law.
➡️ All adult Americans will be eligible to get the vaccine no later than May 1: US President Joe Biden.
➡️ Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar to visit India on 22nd March.