- India on Friday reported a total of 2,51,209 new COVID-19 cases today, taking the total number of infections in the country to over 4 crore 6 lakh cases. The new cases reported were 12% lower than yesterday's daily spike of 2.86 lakh cases.
- Days ahead of the union budget, the government today appointed Dr V Anantha Nageswaran as its Chief Economic Advisor. The advisor is the main architect of the economic survey that is released before the budget every year.
- The BJP declared assets worth ₹ 4,847.78 crore in financial year 2019-20, the highest among all political parties, followed by the BSP at ₹ 698.33 crore and the Congress at ₹ 588.16 crore, according to poll reforms advocacy group ADR.
- The Supreme Court on Friday refused to "lay down any yardstick" for granting reservation in promotion to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in government jobs.
- The Orissa High Court Monday held that the Tata Power Company Limited (TPCL) is an ‘authority’ within the meaning of Article 226. Justice BR Sarangi noted that TPCL, although a company, has engaged in the distribution of electricity in four distribution areas of the state under different names
- The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has validated the first made in Odisha Covid-19 rapid antigen test kit, ImCOV-Ag.
- The Odisha government Friday announced the reopening of the Shree Jagannath Temple here for devotees from February 1 keeping in view the livelihood of locals and ‘slight’ improvement in the coronavirus situation in the state .
- Odisha reported 15 Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the Health and Family Welfare department.
- The Puri district administration has lifted restrictions on the cremation of bodies from outside the coastal district at Swargadwar crematorium in the wake of an improvement in the Covid-19 situation here, an official said Friday.
- The Centre has released a pictorial book narrating the valour of several unsung women freedom fighters, including Parbati Giri of Odisha. The book, released in partnership with Amar Chitra Katha, dwells on the lives of 20 brave women of the country .
- Soon after the Supreme Court quashed the suspension of 12 Opposition legislators from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for one year, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) reacted cautiously while the Bharatiya Janata Party was euphoric, here on Friday .
- Veteran journalist E Somanath passed away Friday at a private hospital here, family sources said. He was 58. Somanath, a well-known political and environmental reporter, was undergoing treatment for brain hemorrhage at a private hospital here.
- A girl is not a property that can be given in donation, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court observed, while taking strong objection to a case wherein a man had given his 17-year-old daughter in "daan" to a self-styled godman.
- Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's granddaughter Dr Soundarya V Y was found hanging in her house here Friday and police suspect it to be a case of suicide.
- The Supreme Court Friday said laying down a criteria for determining the inadequacy of representation of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) would result in curtailing the discretion given to the state governments
- Russia Friday sent its strongest signal so far that it is willing to engage with U.S. security proposals and reiterated that it does not want war over Ukraine
- Ten Pakistani soldiers were killed after militants attacked a security forces’ checkpost in Balochistan’s Kech district .
- Indian shuttlers Malvika Bansod and Ashmita Chaliha reached the semi-finals of the Odisha Open 2022 badminton tournament after winning their respective women’s singles quarter-final match, here on Friday.
- A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the film “Why I Killed Gandhi”, which is set to release on various OTT platforms on January 30, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
- Arpit Kumar Sahoo has been appreciated for identifying 16 vehicles, 6 food items and spices, 8 cosmetic items, 5 shapes, 25 parts of the body, 15 animals, 11 colours, 20 fruits, 11 vegetables; reciting 5 rhymes, English alphabet, days of the week, months in a year and numbers from 1-20 at the age of 2 years and 7 months. A 2.5-year-old boy from Jharsuguda’s has brough glory to the state by earning an Appreciation Certificate from the India Book Of Records 2022 for his remarkable memory power.
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