- Over 400 Parliament staffers have tested positive for Covid-19 during random testing ahead of the Budget session. It has been found that among all those tested positive for Covid, 65 are from the Rajya Sabha, 200 from the Lok Sabha and 133 belong to the allied services.
- Independent MLA Prasad Gaonkar on Sunday resigned as a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly, a month ahead of the elections.
- 5 BJP members including the party's Pursura MLA, Biman Ghosh, were arrested on Sunday on the charge of violating State Election Commission (SEC) guidelines during electioneering for civic polls in Chandannagar area of West Bengal's Hooghly district.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today that December 26 starting this year will be observed as "Veer Baal Diwas" as a tribute to the 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh's four sons who were executed by the Mughals.
- Former RBI governor Urjit Patel has been appointed as a vice president of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
- Deposits in Jan Dhan bank accounts, which were opened in mid-2014, have crossed more than ₹ 1.5 lakh crore till December 2021.
- CBSE Term 1 Result 2021-22: Results of the CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 term 1 board exams, conducted in November, December, 2022, are expected soon.
- Healthcare and frontline workers, and senior citizens with co-morbidities to get Precaution dose of COVID vaccine from today; No new registration required to receive third jab.
- Minister of State in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh has said that pregnant women employees and Divyang employees have been exempted from attending office due to rising COVID cases. Briefing about the guidelines issued by the Department of Personnel and Training in the wake of the third wave of the pandemic.
- PM Modi will inaugurate the 25th National Youth Festival on Wednesday, 12th January which is Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary.
- Rajasthan govt on Sunday announced the closure of schools in urban areas, Sunday curfews, time limits on markets and a cap on occupancy at restaurants and movie theatres in view of a surge in COVID-19 cases.
- The MeT office Sunday warned that heavy rain and thunderstorm, accompanied by hail, are likely to lash Odisha for three days from January 11, and asked farmers to shift their harvest to safer places.
- A 35-km stretch of national highway between Hapur and Moradabad, generating a revenue of Rs 272 crore between 2017 and 2021 has claimed nearly 900 lives during the same period, official data reveal.
- The Election Commission increased the expenditure limit from Rs 28 lakh to Rs 40 lakh in candidates in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 28 lakh in Goa.
- All-party meeting will be held today ahead panchayat election.The meeting will be held at 11.30 am in State Election Commission office at Toshali Bhawan and under the chairmanship of State Election Commissioner Aditya Prasad Padhi.
- Odisha government has moved the Supreme Court of India on Sunday, in connection with the Kotia border dispute.In a fresh petition, the state has appealed the Apex Court to annul Act 131 of the Constitution and to freeze the Andhra Pradesh-sponsored projects in Odisha territories.
- In view of the rapid surge in COVID-19 cases, the Ganjam administration has announced closure of all religious places in the district for devotees from today till January 31.
- Covid vaccine certificates in the five poll-bound states will not have Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picture because of the Model Code of Conduct that has come into place.
- The Omicron Covid-19 variant may be 105 per cent more transmissible than Delta, according to a research by French scientists.The study, published on the medRxiv site and yet to be peer-reviewed, analysed 131,478 tests in France from October 25 to December 18, 2021.
- Australia on Monday surpassed 1 million COVID-19 cases, with more than half of them recorded in the past week, as the Omicron variant ripped through most of the country driving up hospitalisation numbers and putting a strain on supply chains.
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