- India witnessed a slight improvement in its daily Covid graph as the country recorded 12,516 new infections on Friday, which is 4.3 per cent lower than Thursday's 13,091 cases.
- Odisha has bagged the 5th Guangzhou Award in Online Popular City category. The Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation announced about the State’s feat over Twitter on Friday.
- Former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati and his two accomplices have been sentenced to life on charges of gang-rape. Prajapati, Ashok Tiwari and Ashish Shukla, have also been fined Rs 2 lakh each.
- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday released its first list of 10 candidates for the Punjab assembly elections to be held early next year.
- The Vigilance department Friday unearthed documents revealing investments of over Rs 1 crore in shares and debentures by suspended deputy manager of Odisha State Police Housing & Welfare Corporation Pratap Kumar Samal.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday launched two customer-centric schemes with a view to strengthen financial inclusion by ensuring participation of small retail investors in the government securities market as well as to improve grievance redressal mechanism.
- PM Modi on 12 Nov Friday lauded the use of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) across the country and said the digital transactions in India has jumped 19 times in the last seven years.
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Sivan on disclosed that the final manned mission of Gaganyaan that got delayed due to the pandemic will finally be launched in 2023.
- Chief Minister N Rangaswamy on Friday announced a compensation of Rs. 25,000 each to the totally damaged houses due to the incessant rains in the Union Territory.
- Top Maoist leader Prashant Bose alias Kishan Da with a Rs 1 crore reward on his head was arrested in Jharkhand along with his wife Sheela Marandi, a police officer said on Friday. Bose is a senior leader of the central committee of CPI (Maoist).
- Bangladeshi film ‘No Ground Beneath the Feet’ selected for the international competition section of IFFI, Goa
- Johnson & Johnson on Friday announced plans to split into two companies in the biggest shake-up in its 135-year history. The world's largest health-products company said it will separate its consumer health business into a new publicly traded company.
- President Ram Nath Kovind will give away the National Sports Awards 2021 today at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award will be given to 12 sportspersons.
- The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh is contemplating banning in the state, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid's book in which he has compared Hindutva to radical jihadist groups.
- The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up for “urgent hearing” a petition challenging the constitutional validity of the anti-terror law UAPA in the wake of it being used against advocates and journalists for their social media posts on the communal violence in Tripura.
- As per the latest bulletin issued by the weathermen, light to moderate thundershower is likely to occur some parts of the districts of Cuttack, (including Cuttack city), Nayagarh, Khordha (Including Bhubaneswar city), Ganjam, Keonjhar, Kandhamal, Boudh, Gajapati, Kalahandi and Puri within next three hours.
- 25 States/UTs have so far undertaken commensurate reduction of VAT on petrol and diesel to give relief to the consumers. This follows the decision of the Centre on November 3 to significantly reduce Central Excise Duty on petrol and diesel by Rs. 5 and Rs. 10 respectively.
- NHPC Limited has registered an increase of 10 per cent on standalone net profit during the half-year ended September 30 this year. Profit for the current half-year stands at Rs. 2217 crore against Rs. 2021 crore during the corresponding previous half-year.
- The Staffordshire University, which for over 100 years, has been making a positive difference to careers and industry in the United Kingdom, will look to work in collaboration with Odisha’s colleges, and universities to provide educational content virtually on a variety of subjects throughout the year.
- A total of 872 patients suffering from dengue has been admitted in government hospitals till Friday, informed Nanak Saran, Chief Medical Officer.
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