- India recorded a single-day rise of 12,729 new COVID-19 cases today, taking the country's infection tally to 3,43,33,754,. while the active cases rose to 1,48,922.
- US company Ocugen announced Friday that it had asked authorities for emergency use authorization for Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, which was developed in India, for ages 2 to 18.
- The NCB has transferred the investigation in the matter and five other cases from the Mumbai unit headed by Wankhede to a SIT team. The SIT team will be headed Odisha cadre officer of the 1996 batch, Sanjay Singh.
- Edible oil prices in major retail markets across India have declined by ` 5-20 per kg after various measures, including an import duty cut, by the government, Food Secretary Sudhansu Pandey said Friday.
- The Odisha government Friday issued a final reservation list for the post of Zilla Parishad (ZP) chairpersons in all the districts.The government has allotted only four Zilla Parishad (ZP) president posts to Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
- Ther Odia Language Literature and Culture department Friday declared the winners of 31st State Film Awards 2019 and 8th State Tele Awards 2019 in different categories. Veteran director and producer Ghanashyam Mohapatra has been selected for the prestigious Jayadev Award. Mohapatra would get cash prize of Rs 2 lakh and a citation
- Nila Madhab Panda’s Kalira Atita has been selected for the best film/Mohan Sundar Deb Goswami Award. Panda has also been selected for the best director award for Kalira Atita. Saroj Parida and Kavya Kiran have won best actor and best actress award respectively for the movie Khusi. Late Kapileshwar Prasad Mohapatra has won the best story award for Sala Budhar Badla.
- Hind Cinema, one of the oldest movie theatres in the Silver City, would be demolished to make way for infrastructure development as part of the expansion of SCB Medical College and Hospital, said sources in the Cuttack Municipal Corporation.
- The state government has taken up several projects to push development in Jaleswar block of Balasore. As many as 192 projects estimated at over Rs 22.19 crore will be executed in the fringe areas.
- Arpita Khatua, daughter of Niranjan Khatua of Tarago village under Bant block in Bhadrak district, is earning lakhs from YouTube. What she does is manufacturing and selling daily need articles, decorative items and gift items from discarded materials through her YouTube channel.
- A little over 110 new judges have been appointed to various high courts so far this year, sources aware of the procedure of appointment to the higher judiciary have said.
- China has built a large 100-home civilian village inside disputed territory between the Tibet Autonomous Region and India's Arunachal Pradesh, claimed the US Department of Defense in its annual report to Congress on military and security developments involving China.
- All people in Germany will eventually be offered a booster shot of a Covid-19 vaccine six months after receiving their previous injection, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Friday.
- Thirty more people have tested positive for Zika virus in Kanpur, taking the total number of those infected in the district to 66, a senior official said Friday.
- The Delhi Police have arrested 281 people - 138 for selling and supplying firecrackers and 143 for bursting them - between September 29 and Diwali, according to data provided by them on Friday
- The Centre today said there is no proposal at present to extend free foodgrains supply through the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) to provide relief to ration card holders.
- The Pune court on Friday sent Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness in the NCB cruise raid case and an accused in a cheating case registered with Faraskhana police station of Pune, to police custody till November 8.
- The Stutee Cinema Hall (Stutee Cineplex) in the capital city, which was closed for renovation work, reopened for the moviegoers.
- A low pressure area is likely to form over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood around November 9, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
- Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra was sworn-in as the Judge of Orissa High Court .
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