- A total of 8,70,074 candidates have cleared NEET-UG 2021 exam for admission to undergraduate medical courses, with women making up 56.8 per cent successful candidates, the results declared Monday by the National Testing Agency (NTA) show. Three students — Mrinal Kutteri (Telangana), Tanmay Gupta (Delhi) and Karthika G Nair (Maharashtra) — secured the top rank, scoring 720 marks each.
- With 12,830 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,42,73,300, while the active cases declined to 1,59,272, the lowest in 247 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be presenting the formal position on India's climate action agenda and lay out the best pracices and achievements in the sector at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on Monday
- The Odisha Government will launch a mega vaccination campaign ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ across the State from November 2 to expedite the inoculation drive amid the scare of the third wave of Covid pandemic
- Similipal National Park, which was closed after surge in Covid cases in May, reopened for visitors from today.Reportedly, visitors allowed entry through 2 gates.
- Union Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah and Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala have jointly launched ‘Dairy Sahakar,’ a scheme envisaging investment of Rs 5,000 crore with a focus on encouraging cooperative dairy businesses in the country.
- ITC Hotels today announced the opening of "Welcomhotel Bhubaneswar", the first LEED Platinum Certified Hotel in the State.
- The CBI has booked Mumbai-based Topworth Steels and Power Ltd and its directors for allegedly cheating IDBI Bank of approximately ₹ 63.10 crore from 2014 to 2016, officials said on Monday.
- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on 01 Nov launched Bhasha Sangam initiative for schools, Bhasha Sangam Mobile App and Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Mobile Quiz. Bhasha Sangam is an initiative of the Ministry of Education under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, to teach basic sentences of everyday usage in 22 Indian languages.
- The three-day-long Ganga Utsav began. National Mission for Clean Ganga celebrates Ganga Utsav every year to mark the anniversary of the announcement of River Ganga as the National River on 4th November.
- Mumbai’s famous Veermata Jijabai Bhosle Park and Zoo, a huge attraction for children reopened today. The Mumbai civic body, which maintains the Zoo, has laid down certain conditions for the visitors due to the COVID-19 situation.
- The petroleum companies have hiked the price of commercial Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders by Rs 266 from 01 Nov onwards. Commercial cylinders of the 19 kg in Delhi will cost Rs 2,000.50 which was costing Rs 1,734 earlier.
- The Punjab government on 01 Nov slashed power tariff by Rs 3 per unit for domestic consumers, a move which comes just months ahead of the Assembly polls and will put a burden of Rs 3,316 crore per year on the exchequer
- Miss Kerala 2019 Ansi Kabeer and first Runner-up Anjana Shajan died in a car accident in Kochi that took place during the wee hours of 31 Oct. Both died on the spot.
- Supreme Court on 01 Nov set aside a Calcutta High Court order imposing a complete ban on the sale and use of crackers during Kali Puja, Diwali, and Chhath Puja in West Bengal.
- According to police officials, the allegation against Chaudhuri was that SBI sold properties worth Rs 200 crore for Rs 25 crore to Alchemist Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd after the bank seized them for defaulting on a Rs 24-crore loan.
- Special NIA judge Gurvinder Singh Mehrotra also sentenced two other accused to life imprisonment, besides awarding 10 years rigorous imprisonment to as many and seven years in jail to another convict.
- The Union government has decided to resume biometric attendance for employees of all levels from November 8, the Personnel Ministry said on Monday.
- The Government of India today appointed Dinesh Kumar Patnaik as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Spain, who hails from Odisha, is currently working as the Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).
- Nekta N Swasti Sravan Mishra of SAI International School here has emerged as the Odisha topper in the NEET (UG) 2021, the results of which were declared by the NTA, yesterday. He secured 705 marks with a percentile score of 99.99.
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