- The Winter Session of Parliament will begin December 7 and conclude December 29, with sources saying it is likely to be held in the old building as the new one is still underconstruction.
- Six months after imposition of the levy, the Centre has cut the export duty on steel products and iron ore with effect from Saturday. As per a finance ministry notification, exports of specified pig iron and steel products as well as iron ore pellets will attract 'nil' export duty.
- Seventeen-year-old Odia boy, Bablu Munda, who is an International Wushu (A Chinese Martial Art form) player, represented Odisha in a national level festive event organized by UNICEF at Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium in South Delhi on World Children’s Day.
- Noted movie and web series producer Akshay Kumar Parija Saturday sought more time to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the sextortion case.
- Gautam Navlakha, an accused in Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case, was released from prison Saturday and taken to a building in Navi Mumbai where he will be living under house arrest for a month.
- Arun Goel, a 1985 batch IAS officer of the Punjab cadre who took voluntary retirement from Friday, has been appointed as an Election Commissioner (EC).
- The Gauhati High Court has stressed that bulldozing of a house is not provided under any criminal law, even if an agency is investigating a very serious matter.
- Amidst chanting of incantations by tribal priests, the spanking new Donyi Polo Airport, the first greenfield facility in Arunachal Pradesh, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday.
- A day after an anonymous letter threatened bomb blasts in Indore during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra Saturday said it was the state government's responsibility to provide security to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who is leading this foot-march.
- Veteran actor Tabassum, known for her work as a child artiste in several Hindi classics and also as host of popular Doordarshan talk show "Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan", has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, her son Hoshang Govil said Saturday. She was 78.
- The Delhi High Court has held that political parties cannot consider election symbols as their "exclusive property" and the right to use a symbol can be lost if a party's performance is dismal.
- Online food delivery platform Zomato Saturday said it is planning to lay off nearly 3 per cent of its workforce on account of cost-cutting efforts and to turn profitable.
- The Telangana High Court on Saturday dismissed a plea by the BJP to stay the notices issued to party general secretary B L Santhosh by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged attempt to poach Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) MLAs.
- ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre has conducted the Integrated Main Parachute Airdrop Test (IMAT) of its crew module deceleration system for the much-awaited maiden Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.
- Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari on Saturday said Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was an icon of "olden days" even as he referred to B R Ambedkar and Union minister Nitin Gadkari while talking about "icons".
- The Odisha Government has decided to provide winter allowance to social security beneficiaries. Each pensioner will get an allowance of Rs. 300 lump sum in the month of December 2022. More than 48 Lakh beneficiaries will receive the allowance in their Bank Account through DBT and around Rs. 14.62 Cr will be spent in this regard, Social Security and Empowerment of PwDs Department sources said.
- The SSEPD Department of Odisha Government has planned for extensive interventions for visual impaired students in the Special Schools with a mission to make subjects such as Science, Mathematics, and Computational thinking accessible for this community
- The Health & Family Welfare Department in Odisha Government on Saturday (Nov 19) issued a fresh notification for the creation of 2000 LTRMO (Leave Training Reserve Medical Officer) posts.
- The services of the country’s longest train, Vivek Express, will be available twice a week, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said. Train no. 15906 (Dibrugarh – Kanyakumari) Vivek Express which previously used to run on Saturdays, will now operate additionally every Tuesday from November 22, a press release issued by NFR said.
- Covid-19 restrictions earlier imposed following outbreak of the pandemic were repealed in Odishaon 19th Nov 22 by the State government.
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