- Odisha capital Bhubaneswar is most likely to feature in the first list of ‘smart cities’ which the Centre will announce at the end of the year. The six cities, other than Bhubaneswar, that will feature in the list are Bhopal, Surat, Udaipur, Varanasi, Ahmedabad and Indore.
- Odia Language Literature and Culture (OLL&C) department Minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi Thursday inaugurated the Cultural Troupe Management System (CTMS) at Sanskruti Bhawan here
- The 20th Convention of MANLIBNET, a joint initiative of KIIT Deemedto-be-University and Management Libraries Network, was inaugurated at the varsity campus Thursday. The three-day-long event is on the theme “Libraries of the future: Emerging Trends”.
- The Supreme Court is all set to regain its full strength of 34 judges with the apex court collegium headed by CJI N V Ramana recommending names of Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat High Court Judge Justice Jamshed B Pardiwala for elevation to the apex court, sources said. Justice Pardiwala would go on to become the CJI for over two years if the recommendation is accepted by the Centre, they said
- In a report released today, WHO said between January 2020 and December 2021, there were 4.7 million Covid deaths in India -- 10 times the official figures and almost a third of Covid deaths globally. The global figure, according to the report, was 15 million -- more than double the official figure of 6 million.India has recorded roughly 520,000 fatalities due to Covid in the same period.
- India on Thursday strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the WHO for projecting excess mortality estimates linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
- BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Thursday opposed MNS chief Raj Thackeray's visit to Ayodhya on June 5 and warned that he will not be allowed to enter the city till he tendered a public apology for humiliating north Indians.
- Issuing an alert instructions have been given to collectors of 18 districts of Odisha namely, Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Khordha, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Nayagarh, Cuttack, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, and Kandhamal. Pradeep Kumar Jena on Thursday asked all the District Collectors of Coastal District to stay prepared for a possible cyclone over the Bay of Bengal.
- Soon after four terror suspects were detained in Haryana's Karnal, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that it is yet not clear if the accused are terrorists or were being used to transport explosives from one place to another.
- Independent MP Navneet Rana and her-MLA husband Ravi Rana walked out of jail on Thursday, a day after a Mumbai court granted them bail, more than a week after they were arrested in an alleged case of sedition.
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said the subsidised electricity in Delhi will be given only to those who ask for it, in view of the criticism the government is facing in the matter. The new rule, he said, will be implemented from October 1
- Odisha Vigilance officials today unearthed properties worth Rs 7.21 crore, including 91 plots in prime locations of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, possessed by Jagannath Rout, Livestock Inspector, Kalarahanga, Bhubaneswar.
- The Allahabad High Court at Lucknow has directed the Uttar Pradesh government that no person, including an accused, can be summoned to a police station orally by subordinate police officials. By doing so, the Allahabad HC has set a precedence which may prompt other courts in India to follow the same path.
- Handloom products from India have occupied a special place in the world due to their intricacy and exclusiveness. Boyanika has achieved a turnover of `128.85 crore in 2021-22 fiscal and it has set a target to raise its turnover to `163.90 crore in 2022-23 financial year, sources said.
- A magisterial court here Thursday convicted Gujarat independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and nine others in a fiveyear-old case of holding an 'Azadi march' without permission and sentenced them to three months' imprisonment.
- India reported 3,275 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the coronavirus tally to 4,30,91,393. The country also recorded 55 new covid-related fatalities, bringing the total number of deaths to 523,975.
- A police officer has been arrested and suspended from duty for allegedly raping a 25-year-old tribal woman in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district, police said on Thursday.
- Priyanka Mohite from Satara in western Maharashtra has become the first Indian woman to scale five peaks above 8,000 metres after she climbed Mount Kanchenjunga on Thursday.
- 45 per cent of the total 82 lakh people who died in India in 2020 did not get any medical attention at the time of death, according to data prepared by the Registrar General of India (RGI).
- Bypolls to two Rajya Sabha seats -- one each from Bihar and Telangana -- will be held on May 30, the Election Commission (EC) said on Thursday.
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