- Odisha reported 8015 new COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours as the tally in the state mounted to 462622, official sources said today.Khurda registered the highest number of cases as 1275 more persons in the district contracted the virus, followed by Sundargarh (735) and Angul (525).
- Continuing its crackdown against illegal trade of drugs, the Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch (CB) seized a huge cache of brown sugar amounting to Rs 1.36 crore from Sahadevkhunta area in Balasore district
- In a statement, the CBSE informed the marks of Class X students will be tabulated this year on basis of the internal assessment done by schools.The board further stated the Class X results will be announced tentatively by the third week of June 2021.
- Sanjay Kumar Mohanty has taken over as the New Member, Operations & Business Development (O&BD), and ex-Officio Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Railways, Railway Board.Prior to this, Mohanty was working as General Manger, South Eastern Railway, Kolkata.
- A flight from the USA carrying 1,000 oxygen cylinders, regulators and other medical equipment landed in India on Saturday night, the Ministry of External Affairs informed.
- India on Saturday night received a consignment of 120 ventilators from Germany to strengthen the country's fight against the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
- The government on Saturday slashed Integrated GST rate on oxygen concentrators for personal use to 12 per cent, from 28 per cent earlier, for two months till June 30.
- Senior IAS officer Tripurari Sharan was on Saturday named as the new Chief Secretary of Bihar, but his tenure will be for a brief period of two months only, according to a government notification.
- Delhi yet again reported an all-time record surge in its fatalities on a single day due to COVID-19 with 412 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- The Election Commission has complained to the Supreme Court against what it called "blatantly disparaging remarks" by the Madras High Court over holding polls amid the deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- BJP MP Gautam Gambhir on Saturday said he will provide oxygen concentrators for free to those who need it in Delhi.
- A resident doctor at a private hospital in Delhi has died by suicide due to severe stress amid the deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the former chief of a top medical body tweeted.
- Amid an acute shortage of oxygen in Delhi hospitals, the Centre on Saturday raised the national capital's daily quota of the life-saving gas to 590 metric tonne from 490 MT
- Gujarat cadre former bureaucrat from Odisha, Labanyendu Mansingh, passed away today while undergoing treatment for COVID-19. The 1970-batch Gujarat cadre retired IAS Officer was admitted to a hospital in Delh
- In a major development, the Odisha Higher Education Department has decided not to grant permission for opening of new degree or professional colleges in the state till 2025-26 academic session.
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