- Currency with the public has jumped to a new high of `30.88 lakh crore as of October 21, illustrating that cash usage is still robust even six years after the demonetisation move.
- Paralympic champion shuttler Pramod Bhagat won the singles gold and a silver medal in the doubles of BWF Para Badminton World Championships which ended here Sunday. Bhagat defended his men’s singles SL3 title as he defeated compatriot Nitesh Kumar 21-19, 21-19 in 53 minutes to clinch the gold.
- Defeating the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD, the BJP was able to retain the Dhamnagar MLA seat in Bhadrak district with its candidate Suryabanshi Suraj winning by a margin of 9,881 votes.
- The BJP won in four out of seven assembly constituencies in six states, retaining the three seats it held, in the by-election results declared Sunday, while the TRS and RJD won one each after a stiff contest with the saffron party.
- Tirupati’s world famous Lord Venkateswara temple’s net worth of over `2.5 lakh crore (about USD 30 billion) is more than the market capitalisation of IT services firm Wipro, food and beverage company Nestle and state-owned oil giants ONGC and IOC.
- Lord Venkateswara temple’s assets include 10.25 tonnes of gold deposits in banks, 2.5 tonnes of gold jewellery, about `16,000 crore of deposits in banks, and 960 properties across India. All these total to over `2.5 lakh crore.
- The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Sunday conferred the prestigious ‘Award of Excellence’ on Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) during the 15th Urban Mobility India Conference and Expo 2022 at Kochi in Kerala.
- Nuapada district in Odisha has topped NITI Aayog’s Delta Ranking in terms of overall performance for the month of September, 2022.
- Odisha Rising Foundation (ORF) with the support from V-Guard Industries Limited launched a statewide project- “Navadarshan” recently for the empowerment of special children of the state, focusing more on Intellectually Challenged children
- The Centre's air quality panel Sunday directed authorities to lift the ban on plying of non-BS VI diesel-run light motor vehicles in Delhi-NCR and entry of trucks into the capital imposed under the final stage of the Graded Response Action Plan.
- After missions to the moon and Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has now set its eyes on Venus and also plans to explore the dark side of the moon in collaboration with Japan.
- For Right to Information (RTI) activist Makhan Dhakad it was an occasion that he had to celebrate as he was finally getting 9,000 pages of information, which he had sought, after a two-month-long struggle and payment of Rs 25,000. So elated was he that he reached the local civic body office on a bullock cart amid the beating of drums to collect the documents.
- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra continued in Telangana' Sunday. On the 60th day of his walkathon, the Congress MP started walking at Alladurg in Medak district on Sunday morning.
- Russia has become India’s top oil supplier in October, surpassing traditional sellers Saudi Arabia and Iraq, according to data from energy cargo tracker Vortexa.
- Suryakumar Yadav (61 n o, 25b, 6x4, 4x6) re affirmed his status as a shortformat magician with another magnificent effort as India crushed Zimbabwe by 71 runs here Sunday to set up a T20 World Cup semifinal date with England.
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