- The Regional Meteorological Centre here today issued severe cold wave warning for several districts of Odisha during the next 2-3 days.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the state's longest high-level bridge over Mahanadi river at Gopinathpur in Cuttack district. The 3.4 km-long bridge connecting Singhanath Pitha and Baideswar in Cuttack.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today launched Mukhyamantri Vayu Swasthya Seva (Air Health Services) at the Biju Patnaik International Airport. The service was launched for four districts– Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Nuapada and Kalahandi– in the first phase. Other districts will be covered under the programme in a phased manner.
- The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in India crossed 138 crore on Monday, the Union Health Ministry said.
- The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of capital punishment awarded to a man, convicted of raping a seven-year-old minor girl in Madhya Pradesh in 2018.
- The Nagaland Assembly today unanimously resolved to demand a repeal of the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 from the northeast, especially from Nagaland.
- Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed party MPs Santokh Singh Chaudhary, M K Raghavan and Amee Yajnik as secretaries of the Congress Parliamentary Party.
- Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the Delhi government has decided to extend the distribution of free ration in the city for six months till May 31, 2022.
- Tata Steel has been recognised for its Safety and Heath Excellence initiatives by World Steel Association (worldsteel) under the category ‘Occupational Health Management.
- A total of 122 students of IITs, IIMs, central universities and other centrally funded higher educational institutions committed suicide during 2014-21, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said that banks have recovered ₹ 13,109.17 crore from asset sale of fugitives like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi.
- The contentious anti-conversion bill was cleared by the Karnataka Cabinet on Monday and it is most likely to be tabled in the legislative Assembly on December 21, official sources said.
- India has reported 161 cases of new coronavirus variant Omicron, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Monday.
- Senior diplomat Pradeep Kumar Rawat was on Monday appointed as India's next Ambassador to China.
- The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that aims to give effect to the long-pending electoral reforms including linking Aadhaar with the voter ID card was passed in the Lok Sabha amid din on Monday, with the Opposition members strongly opposing the bill and asking the government to take it back.
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was one of several prominent personalities named in The Indian Express-ICIJ 2016 Panama Papers leak.
- The provisional payroll data of EPFO released on December 20 highlights that EPFO has added 12.73 lakh net subscribers during the month of October 2021.
- The first consignment of the S-400 missile system has arrived in India. The Russian missile system that has the potential to prevent any kind of air attack will be deployed in the northern region of the country.
- Rs 4,55,069 crore collected as taxes and cess on petrol and diesel in 2020-21
- Vigilance sleuths today arrested Tara Charan Panda, junior accountant of Nuapada Civil Supplies Office. Panda was caught with unaccounted cash Rs 2.16 lakh on Sunday.
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