- India on Thursday reported 2,11,298 fresh cases as 3,847 more patients succumbed to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said.
- Odisha on Thursday recorded a sharp decline in daily Covid cases. The state reported 6,736 cases in the last 24hours. New Positive Cases :6736 In quarantine: 3774 Local contacts: 2962
- COVID-19 claimed 34 more lives in Odisha as the toll in the state mounted to 2618.
- Shantiraj Khosla, renowned music director of Odisha, succumbed to COVID-19 at the SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) here, family sources said. He was 50.
- National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued guidelines to ensure service time of not more than 10 seconds per vehicle even during peak hours at the toll plazas on the National Highways.
- Google is committed to complying with local laws and engages constructively with governments as they scrutinise and adopt regulatory frameworks to keep pace with the fast evolving technology landscape, its CEO Sundar Pichai said today.
- In a statement, Prasad, who also holds the I-T and Electronics Ministry portfolio, said that new regulations only aim to "find out who started the message that led to commissioning of specific crimes" to save the ordinary users of social media.
- Cyclone ‘Yaas’ completed its landfall Wednesday morning near Odisha’s Dhamra port. After Tauktae, cyclone ‘Yaas’ is the second super cyclone to hit an Indian coast in just a week. Following Tauktae and Yaas, the next cyclonic storm erupting out of the Indian Ocean will be named ‘Gulaab’
- The CPWD has decided to transplant 1,838 trees from the campus of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), proposed to be demolished for the construction of three new office buildings under the Central Vista redevelopment project
- If laws can be made amid the Covid pandemic, why cannot they be repealed, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said on Wednesday, underlining that farmers camping at Delhi border points will leave after the three contentious Central agri laws are withdrawn.
- US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is likely to supply 50 million COVID-19 vaccines to India in 2021, albeit with a few conditions, sources told ANI on Wednesday. The drugmaker has asked for relaxations in some clauses, sources informed.
- The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has written to PM Modi demanding that yoga guru Ramdev be booked immediately under sedition charges for alleged misinformation campaign on vaccination and challenging government protocols for treatment of COVID-19
- As the Centre’s new IT rules come into effect from today, the government on Wednesday asked the major social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp for their response “ASAP, preferably today”. In a note to ‘significant social media intermediaries’, the IT Ministry said the additional due diligence required from such large digital platforms has come into effect from Wednesday.
- Andhra Pradesh government postpones Class X exams due to COVID-19 second wave
- Twitter on Thursday expressed concern over the "use of intimidation tactics by the police" after it gave manipulated media tag to tweets by spokesperson of ruling party BJP, and said it is concerned about employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression.
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