- The Odisha cabinet approves drinking water projects in three districts. The Odisha cabinet led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday approved three tenders worth Rs 1,287 crore for execution of nine mega piped water.
- Odisha government on Saturday hikes grant in aid of aided private college employees during the Cabinet meeting. They also approved other key proposals.The hike will be effective from January 2022, informs official sources. As per the decision, around 15,711 teachers and employees will be benefitted and the state government will seek an additional expenditure of Rs 290 crore annually.
- Odisha Fire Service got the prestigious Scoch Award for its fire service that it rendered in 2022.
- The Centre has ordered the blocking of YouTube videos which published the first episode of the BBC documentary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said adding that Twitter has also been asked to block over 50 tweets containing links to those YouTube videos.
- Homegrown vaccine maker Bharat Biotech will launch its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine iNCOVACC, the first of its kind in India, on January 26.
- Telangana has attracted investments worth ₹ 21,000 crore across various sectors during the recently concluded annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting at Davos in Switzerland.
- A group of 302 former judges, ex-bureaucrats and veterans on Saturday slammed a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a "motivated charge sheet against our leader, a fellow Indian and a patriot".
- The GST Council is the only institution in the country today which is totally federalist, Mr Mitra further argued, saying ministers of 31 states and union territories are part of the council, chaired by the Finance Minister of India.
- Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand's next Prime Minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest Saturday to replace Jacinda Ardern. Hipkins, 44, must still get an endorsement Sunday from his Labour Party colleagues in Parliament but that is just a formality now.
- The local police force where Rishi Sunak filmed a social media video in a moving car without a seatbelt Friday fined the British Prime Minister for the legal breach. Lancashire Police, which had been “looking into” the matter, confirmed it had issued a fixed penalty notice to Sunak, which involves a 100 pounds fine for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car.
- The Sports Ministry Saturday suspended Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, a fallout of the grapplers’ allegations of sexual harassment and corruption against the sports body’s chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
- The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Saturday issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the organisers of the Khandagiri Mela, which is set to begin January 28.
- The state government has taken the decision to put former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik’s iconic Dakota aircraft for public display at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here from March 5, the birth anniversary of the erstwhile leader which is also celebrated in the state as the Panchayati Raj Diwas.
- Homegrown vaccine maker Bharat Biotech will launch its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine iNCOVACC, the first of its kind in India, on January 26, the company's chairman and managing director Krishna Ella said here Saturday.
- Tirumala temple authorities have ordered a probe into the alleged drone video of the temple making rounds on social media platforms.
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