- The state government Monday enhanced the salary of junior teachers engaged in the primary schools of the state by nearly 50 per cent.
- Orissa High Court Chief Justice S Muralidhar has requested lawyers to avoid using ter ms like ‘My Lord’, ‘Your Lordship’ ‘Your Honour’ while addressing judges of the High Court.
- Unknown fraudsters including a New Delhibased foreigner have duped a woman from the Capital city here of more than `15 lakh on the pretext of doubling her investments and by threatening her to make viral her ‘objectionable’ videos.
- Union Education and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday launched the National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) 3.0, a single platform to provide the best-developed ed-tech solutions and courses to students of the country.
- The Indian Navy's 1971 Indo-Pak war veteran Vice Admiral S H Sarma passed away in Bhubaneswar Monday, officials said. Sarma, who turned 99 last December, was the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet during the 1971 war, they mentioned. India had defeated Pakistan in the 1971 war leading to the creation of Bangladesh. Officials said Sarma also served as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command.
- India recorded 33,750 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, 22 per cent higher than the previous day, while 123 people died due to the virus in the same time period. The number of Omicron cases in the country rose to 1,700.
- The Centre requested the Supreme Court on Monday to schedule a hearing in a matter related to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota in connection with the NEET-PG admissions.
- Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr Jitendra Singh has announced the suspension of the Biometric Attendance for government employees with immediate effect due to rise in Covid cases.
- A court in Raipur has rejected the bail plea of religious leader Kalicharan Maharaj, who has been jailed for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Mahatma Gandhi. Kalicharan was remanded to judicial custody till January 13.
- CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy released the third tranche of YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan scheme by crediting Rs 1,036 crore into the bank accounts of 50.58 lakh farmers for the third consecutive year.
- Mumbai schools for classes 1 to 9 will remain closed till 31 January in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases.
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on 03 Jan announced that its Director (Human Resources) Dr Alka Mittal has been entrusted with additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD). She has become the first woman to head ONGC.
- Over 4,000 flights were cancelled and more than 11,000 were delayed on Sunday following disruptions in air travel due to surge of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and adverse weather conditions. As per tracking website FlightAware.com, 2,400 flights departing from or within the US were cancelled. FlightAware also noted that SkyWest and SouthWest airlines recorded the most number of cancellations.
- In a significant development, the Gauhati High Court on Monday called upon the state government to reveal the details of all the encounters that have been taking place in the northeastern state since May amid allegations of human rights abuse.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ferozepur in Punjab on Wednesday and lay the foundation stones of development projects worth over ₹ 42,750 crore, including the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway and a PGI satellite centre, in the city.
- The Centre has allowed 50 per cent of its employees below the level of Under Secretary to work from home amid rising coronavirus cases, according to a Personnel Ministry order issued on Monday.
- The Centre on Monday suspended marking of biometric attendance for all its employees till January 31, as a precautionary measure to check the spread of coronavirus.
- Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik on Monday gave a complaint to the Vigilance department of CBIT against ex-NCB officer Sameer Wankhede, saying that he "is holding a Permit Room and Bar License in his name from 1997 onwards till date."
- As many as 66 of the over 2,000 people on board the Cordelia cruise ship, which came to Goa from Mumbai, have tested positive for COVID-19, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said Monday.
- More than 500 employees and ex-employees of IPO-bound OYO have exercised their stock options grants to purchase over three crore shares of the company, according to regulatory filings by the hospitality chain.
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