1.China Occupies Part of Bhutan, Sets up Village Close to Doklam Clash Site

2.  The third phase human trial of Covid-19 vaccine candidate ‘Covaxin’ began at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here, said an official on Friday.This is the only institute in Odisha chosen by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) for the human trial of the vaccine.

 

3. Odisha-born and Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India Girish Chandra Murmu has been elected as External Auditor of Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva for a three-year term.

4.Odisha’s renowned nephrologist Dr. Chittaranjan Kar passed away at a hospital in Chennai this evening. He was 57.

5.Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari today presented the Supplementary budget of Rs 11,200 Crore for the financial year 2020-21 in the State Assembly.

6.Sundargarh leads Tasar Silk production in Odisha with high quality cocoon cultivated in different parts of the district. To take sericulture to the next level and achieve ‘Soil to Silk’ ecosystem, the district administration plans to build a modern Tasar Silk Park at Khuntgaon under Lahunipara block.

7.With cold wave conditions started prevailing in various parts of the state,  Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) has directed all district Collectors to ensure that no child sleeps under open sky in chilling temperature.

8.Haryana government Friday ordered that all private and government schools across the state shall remain shut till November 30.

9.Under the Centre's 'Har Ghar Nal Yojana', the state government will start drinking water supply through pipes in 1,606 villages of the Mirzapur region.

10. Delhi's air quality was recorded in the “poor” category on Friday morning, while central government agencies said it is likely to improve marginally due to favourable wind speed.The city's air quality index was 292 at 10 am. Its 24-hour average AQI was 283 on Thursday, 211 on Wednesday and 171 on Tuesday.

11.The Prime Ministers of India and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg have held the first-ever India-Luxembourg Virtual Summit.

12.The  (RBI) has decided to impose a 30-day moratorium on Chennai-based Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd (LVB).

13.India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercomputer Param Siddhi ranked 63^rd among top 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.

14 A 500-million dollar loan agreement was signed between the Union government, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, National Capital Region (NCR) Transport Corporation Limited and the New Development Bank (NDB) for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS).

15 Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday launched the ‘Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge’ across 243 cities in the country, a move that aims to mechanise all sewer and septic tank cleaning operations by April 30 next year.