- India reported 13,451 new COVID-19 cases and 585 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tally to 3,42,15,653, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday.
- Mumbai Police has deputed police officers for enquiry into complaints of alleged extortion against NCB officers including zonal director Sameer Wankhede in the drugs bust case involving Aryan Khan, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
- The World Health Organisation on Wednesday said it expects to receive clarifications from Bharat Biotech by the end of this week on its COVID-19 vaccine -- Covaxin.
- The Election Commission on Wednesday issued a notice to Assam minister and BJP leader Ashok Singhal for violating provisions of the model code during electioneering for bypolls.
- The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Wednesday launched Krishi Udan 2.0 scheme under which cargo-related infrastructure will be built in airports of north-east, hilly and tribal regions to assist farmers in transporting agriculture products.
- Participating in the 16th East Asia Summit earlier on Wednesday via videoconference, Modi also stressed the importance of Free, Open and Inclusive Indo-Pacific and raised the idea of developing global standards on cyber security.
- The government earlier this month decided to sell Air India to Talace Pvt Ltd, a unit of the holding company of salt-to-software conglomerate Tata group, for Rs 18,000 crore.
- The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has declared the result of the written exam held on September 19 for Assistant Director of Census Operation (Technical), RGI; Statistical Officer (Planning - Statistics), GNCTD; Senior Scientific Assistant (Mechanical), Ministry of Defence posts. The UPSC result is available on the official website of the Commission, upsc.gov.in.
- India successfully test-fired Agni-5, a surface-to-surface ballistic missile, from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island, off the Odisha coast today. The intercontinental ballistic missile was test-fired by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at 7:50 PM.
- Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Wednesday that all schools in the national capital will be permitted to open from November 1. However, physical attendance will be voluntary and parents would not be forced to send their children to school.
- The Centre Wednesday notified the four-year integrated teacher education programme (ITEP) — envisaged as the minimum degree qualification for school teachers under the National Education Policy 2020 — which will be offered by about 50 institutes across the country from the next academic year.
- The three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana, in ordering a probe by a committee headed by former Supreme Court judge R V Raveendran, flagged that its intervention is to “uphold the constitutional aspirations and rule of law” without being “consumed in (the) political rhetoric.”
- From next month, no central government file will pass more than four hands before a decision and ministries will also be able to submit e-files to each other. The idea is to speed up decision-making and usher in an executive-centric and business-oriented functional transformation of government offices by flattening the organisation and going for delegation rather than pushing files up to higher levels needlessly,
- The Similipal National Park, which had remained out of bounds to public since May this year due to COVID-19 second wave, will reopen for tourists from November 1.
- Offline classes for First Year UG and PG students will start in degree colleges and universities across Odisha from November 1 and November 15, respectively.The State Government has written to the Principals of all Colleges and Vice-Chancellors of all Universities in this regard.
- Sanjeev Mohanty was appointed as Levi Strauss & Co.’s Senior Vice President and Managing Director for US and Canada operations.
- The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind will visit Gujarat from October 28 to 30, 2021.On October 29, the President will inaugurate a Housing Scheme Project for Economically Weaker Section at Bhavnagar.
- Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday credited a total of Rs 2,190 crore under YSR Rythu Bharosa, YSR Sunna Vaddi Panta Runalu and YSR Yantra Seva Pathakam directly into the accounts of all eligible farmers across the state.
- Over 103 million people across India have not turned up for their second doses of Covid-19 vaccines .
- Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik virtually launched India’s first Fifa Football for Schools programm.
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