- India logged 13,596 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest daily rise in the last eight months or 230 days, the Health Ministry's data showed on Monday. 166 people have died of Covid in the last 24 hours.
- All private and government-run Odia and English medium schools in Odisha will begin offline classes for students of Standard 11 and Standard 8th from 21st October and 25th October respectively .
- India’s coal import registered a decline of 2.7 per cent to 15.22 million tonnes (MT) in August this year amid the country’s power plants grappling with fuel shortages. The country imported 15.64 MT of coal in the corresponding month last year.
- India is revising its existing policies and is also in the process of bringing in new ones to increase industry participation in the space sector, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr K. Sivan said on Sunday.
- The WHO's technical advisory group will meet on October 26 to consider the emergency use listing of India's Covaxin which is being used in the country's nationwide anti-COVID-19 vaccination programme, according tothe global health agency's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan.
- For the convenience of daily commuters, East Coast Railway has reinstated Monthly Season Ticket (MST)/ Quarterly Season Ticket (QST) in seven more pairs of passenger special trains.
- Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), the leading coal producer, has despatched over 5.47 lakh tonne of coal to consumers on Sunday, breaking its own record of 5.45 lakh tonne within a fortnight.
- The state government Monday achieved the milestone of 1 crore double dose vaccination against Covid-19. As per data available on CoWIN portal, Odisha now has 1,00,26,166 completely vaccinated population.
- According to a notification issued by General Administration & Public Grievances department, 2015-batch IAS officer and deputy secretary to Works department, Parul Patawari has been appointed Jagatsinghpur Collector. Similarly, Sangram Keshari Mohapatra, who is serving as Jagatsinghpur Collector, has been transferred and posted as new Collector of Khurda.
- Vigilance sleuths have seized 1,440 gram gold and a designer necklace worth `24.25 lakh from the house of Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahy, an official said.
- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Khurda Collector to file an affidavit with details of the illegal miners carrying out laterite stone mining in the district and the amount of environmental compensation imposed and recovered from them.
- Prisoners lodged in several jails in Odisha can now legally speak to their relatives over phone as the Prisons directorate, taking a cue from Tihar jail, has decided to launch Prisoners’ Calling System (PCS) in November this year.
- Two girls from Odisha have been selected for the UK government's coveted Chevening Scholarship for higher studies in prestigious universities like Cambridge and Oxford in England. Hailing from Bhubaneswar, Neelima Mishra and Preeti Pratishruti Dash are the two among 24 students from across India who have been selected by the UK government for their international award scheme.
- A lawyer was shot dead allegedly by another on the district court premises here Monday afternoon over an old rivalry, following which four cops were suspended for negligence, police said.
- India and Israel Monday agreed to resume negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) from next month with an aim to conclude the long-pending deal by next June as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held “very productive talks” with Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
- Colin Powell, who blasted through racial barriers to become the US' first African American Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, and the top military officer and was a one-time favourite for President, died at the age of 84 Monday from Covid-19-related complications despite being vaccinated, according to his family.
- A two-day coordination meeting of the BJP and the RSS will be held in Delhi from today to deliberate on policy-related issues, sources said on Monday.
- The Centre has infused ₹ 1,31,000 crore to boost agriculture and allied sectors with special emphasis on becoming an export-oriented economy as India has tremendous potential to satiate global demand, Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje said on Monday.
- Four more people, including a BJP leader who was seen inside the SUV that mowed down protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, were arrested yesterday.
- Indra Pratap Tiwari, BJP MLA from Gosaiganj in Ayodhya, was on Monday sentenced to five years imprisonment by a special court in a 28-year-old case of using a fake mark sheet to get admission in college.
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