- India reported 16,156 new COVID-19 cases and 733 deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.
- The Supreme Court permitted Thursday the National Testing Agency (NTA) to declare the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) results for admission to undergraduate medical courses across India
- Home Ministry has extended the COVID-19 restrictions across the country till 30th November this year to prevent any further spread of the pandemic.
- India’s Ministry of Railways has asked the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to share 50% of revenues coming from service charts on e-ticketing, i.e., convenience fees, with the government.The company will start sharing half of the convenience fees with the government from November 2021.
- CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has asked officials to concentrate on establishing a 'London Eye/Millennium Wheel' type project in Visakhapatnam and provide state-of-the-art facilities in the tourism sector to attract global tourists to Andhra Pradesh.
- Delhi Petrol prices continue to rise, crosses Rs 108 in Delhi, Rs 114 in Mumbai.Petrol and diesel prices differ from state to state depending on the incidence of value-added tax.The price of diesel also saw a hike by 35 paise and took the fuel's rate to Rs 97.02 per litre in the national capital.
- PM Modi on 29 Oct (Thursday) attended the 18th ASEAN-India Summit and exchanged views on regional and global issues with ASEAN partners.Addressing a virtual meet, the PM said that the country decided to celebrate 2022 as 'India-ASEAN Friendship Year' to commemorate 30 years of ASEAN-India Partnership.
- India is scheduled to host the G-20 Summit in 2023 for the first time. At COP-26 in Glasgow, the Parties will work to achieve the completion of Paris Agreement implementation guidelines, the mobilization of climate finance, actions to strengthen climate adaptation, technology development and transfer, and keeping in reach the Paris Agreement goals of limiting the rise in global temperatures.
- China said that its new land border law will not affect the implementation of existing border treaties or change the country’s position on border-related questions. Beijing’s response comes a day after India’s Ministry of External Affairs expressed concerns about the legislation in view of a protracted military standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
- The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank on Thursday signed a 251 million dollar loan for climate-resilient, integrated urban flood protection and management in the Chennai-Kosasthalaiyar basin to strengthen resilience of Chennai city to floods. The agreement was signed between, Rajat Kumar Mishra, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs and Takeo Konishi, Country Director of Asian Development Bank’s India Resident Mission
- China will build a base for police in Tajikistan near the Afghan border, The base points to deepening security cooperation between impoverished Tajikistan and China, which is reported to maintain another base in the southeast of the ex-Soviet country.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concerns over the worsening coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic situation in Europe. On Wednesday, the UN health body said that Europe had the maximum number of cases and deaths due to the viral disease over the last week.
- The Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) ordered Thursday Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RIL) to pay dues of over Rs 4,000 crore accrued by its three power distributions companies (discoms), the licences of which were revoked six years ago.
- In a major relief, the Bombay High Court granted Thursday bail to Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha who were nabbed in the cruise ship rave party raided by officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). While granting a conditional bail to the trio, Justice NW Sambre passed the operative order and the detailed one is expected Friday.
- According to the report released Thursday, factors like logging, wildfires and clearance of land for agriculture are to blame. The excess carbon turns up from just 10 of 257 forests classified among UNESCO World Heritage sites. The Switzerland-based International Union for Conservation of Nature and UNESCO said their report provides the first-ever assessment of greenhouse gases produced and absorbed in UNESCOlisted forests. The study was based on information collected through onsite monitoring and from satellites .
- : A robotic surgery centre of excellence (CoE) called ‘Robotic Sx system (Versius) of CMR (UK)’ became operational Thursday at Shanti Memorial Hospital, a leading healthcare provider of Odisha.
- Odisha registered a 21 per cent jump in cases of suicides during 2020 as compared to 2019. As many as 5,546 persons committed suicide in 2020 as against 4,582 in the previous year, as per data revealed by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
- Students studying in colleges under the Sambalpur University no longer need to run from pillar to post to get migration certificates for admission in other institutions as an online service has been launched could apply online and get it .
- Delhi has a seropositivity of 97 per cent for Covid19 antibodies, the sixth serological survey conducted in the city has revealed, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said Thursday. Every district has a sero-positivity of above 95 per cent, he said.
- In an important verdict to protect the rights of Children with Special Needs or suffering from disability (CwSN), the Supreme Court Thursday directed the Centre to forthwith notify the norms and standards of pupil-teacher ratio for special schools and separate norms for special teachers who alone can impart education and training to CwSN in the general schools.
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