- India reported 7,447 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, said a health ministry update on Friday morning. Besides, 391 related fatalities took the death count to 4,76,869 in the country.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh at around 1 pm on Saturday.
- Telugu star Prabhas has teamed up with ‘Mahanati’ director Nag Ashwin for the upcoming ‘Project-K’. Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone will star opposite Prabhas with megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
- Closing of schools across the world should be the last resort in the fight against the fast-spreading Omicron Covid-19 variant, outgoing Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore said.
- Cold wave continues to grip several parts of the state with Daringbadi, considered as the Kashmir of Odisha, recording the lowest minimum temperature of 6.5 degree Celsius in the last 24 hours.
- The Supreme Court on Friday requested Delhi High Court to dispose of expeditiously, preferably within three months, a plea seeking registration of FIRs against some politicians for alleged hate speeches that purportedly triggered the Delhi riots last year in which 53 people died.
- CAQM allows reopening of schools for students in class VI and above and colleges in Delhi-NCR with immediate effect.
- Senior Congress MLA and former Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar, who had courted controversy by saying "enjoy rape when it is inevitable" inside the Karnataka Assembly, apologised for his 'off the cuff remark' on Friday.
- Tax searches are being carried out this morning at the home of Samajwadi Party leader Rajeev Rai, who is also an aide of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
- Four Bills including the National Anti-Doping Bill 2021, the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill 2021 were introduced in the Lok Sabha on 17 Dec.
- Centre approves to set up 100 Sainik Schools in partnership with NGOs, Private Schools & state govts.
- Haryana govt has started Khel Nursery Scheme to promote sports in the state.
- The NCB informed on Friday that its Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Dnyandev Wankhede's tenure will end on December 31 and he won't seek an extension.
- Siddharth Chattopadhyaya has replaced Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota as the Director-General of Police, Punjab.
- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal urged Indian industry to think big and set accelerated and aggressive targets, with a vision to achieve transformative changes by 2047 when India would be celebrating hundred years of independence.
- Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan AVSM NM is new Chief of Staff of the Eastern Naval Command.
- These 1,002 women candidates will now appear for the Service Selection Board and their medical tests, after which 19 of them will be shortlisted for next year’s NDA course.
- Without taking any names, Naidu pointed out that members who do not attend the Parliament session or the committee meetings would not have the right to criticise others.
- There were 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with terrorist group Islamic State, a latest US report said.
- The Union government Friday said that no detailed proposal for setting up of a bench of Orissa High Court has been pending with it. the state government has requested for setting up of Orissa High Court Bench in western and southern region of Odisha
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