📌Fire breaks out at First Floor Trauma Care ICU at SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack.
📌Odisha CM Mohan Majhi visits SCB; announces Rs 25 lakh compensation for the kin of the 10 deceased in ICU fire mishap.
📌Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh from Prime Minister National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to the next of kin of each deceased of SCB fire incident. The injured would be given Rs. 50,000.
📌BJD President Naveen Patnaik and PCC President Bhakta Das expressed deep grief over the fire in the Trauma Care ICU of SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack.
📌Rajya Sabha Elections begin in Odisha; BJD President Naveen Patnaik arrives at the State Assembly to vote for Rajya Sabha elections.
📌Odisha Government on Sunday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh each for the families of the deceased who lost their lives in a Nor’wester in Karanjia area of Mayurbhanj district.
📌Polling for the biennial elections to 37 Rajya Sabha seats across 10 states (Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Telangana) begins today.
📌Election dates for Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry out.
📌West Bengal legislative assembly will go to polls in two phases, on April 23 and on April 29, 2026.
📌Assam, Kerala and Puducherry legislative assembly will go to polls April 9, 2026. Tamil Nadu assembly polls will be held on April 23.
📌Dubai International Airport temporarily suspends all flight operations to and from the Airport.
📌Oscars 2026: Hollywood actor Michael B. Jordan honoured with Best Actor for ‘Sinners’; Jessie Buckley received with Best Actress award for ‘Hamnet’. Paul Thomas Anderson conferred with Best Director for ‘One Battle After Another’.
