- West Bengal recorded 80.43 per cent polling across 30 segments in the second of the eight-phase elections being conducted in the state.
- Assam, where elections were held for 39 seats in the second phase, recorded a turnout of 77.21 per cent.
- The Centre has written to all States and UTs and asked them to make necessary arrangements to provide COVID vaccination in these COVID Vaccination Centres (CVCs) on all days of the month, including gazetted holidays during April 2021.
- The Indian Air Force (IAF) is expected to receive five more Rafale fighter jets by April-end. These five will be in addition to the batch of three jets that arrived from France yesterday.
- National Highway construction nearly doubled in the past seven years growing from 91,287 km as of April 2014 to 1,37,625 km as on March 20 this year.
- Amid the worsening COVID-19 situation,services of Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Ahmedabad Tejas Express would be suspended for a month from April 2.
- Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh launched a free travel facility for women in government-run buses within the state and said this fulfils another promise made by his party in its poll manifesto.
- The Gujarat Assembly on Thursday passed an amendment Bill which provides for a prison sentence of up to ten years for fraudulent or forcible conversion by marriage.
- The DRDO has developed a lightweight bullet-proof jacket that weighs 9 kg and meets the qualitative requirements of the Indian Army, the defence ministry said on Thursday.
- Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district will vote in the first phase of gram panchayat elections in the state on April 15 to elect 161 village heads.
- Superstar Rajinikanth has won the 2019 Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
- Utkal Divas. Odisha is celebrating its 85th Foundation Day today. Odisha was carved out of the combined Bengal-Bihar-Orissa province on this day in 1936. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik grreeted the people of his state.
- The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC)has inaugurated eight more Micro Composting Centres (MCCs) at different wards in the city.
- Odisha government has transferred Rs 693.94 crore to accounts of around 34 lakh farmers under the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme.
- There are 26 productive Public enterprises in the state of Odisha said Minister for Public Enterprises Ashok Chandra Panda.
- SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttak is going to equip itself with250 bedded Corona Hospital soon.
- NESCO will operate under the company name as TP Northern Odisha Distribution Limited (TPNODL).
- There are as many as 31.9 lakh registered construction workers in Odisha so far.
- The Odisha state has reported total of Rs 84 lakh loot in cyber fraud in March this year, informed the office of police commissioner.
- Lt Gen Yogendra Dimri took over as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Army’s Central Command .
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