- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and “the spirit of Ukraine” have been declared as TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2022 Wednesday.
- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won Wednesday the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls with 134 seats, ending the 15-year rule of the BJP in the corporation. In the fight between the BJP and the AAP, the Congress was reduced to a mere spectator winning just nine wards in the process,
- The RBI hiked the key repo rate by 35 basis points (bps), the fifth straight increase since May, raising prospects of EMIs for home, auto and other loans rising further. The previous four increases totalled 190 bps, with the last three hikes being 50 bps each.
- Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Achyuta Samanta Wednesday urged the Ministry of Finance to withdraw Goods and Services Tax (GST) on kendu leaf. Speaking during the Zero Hour of Lok Sabha, the Kandhamal MP said that kendu leaf, a minor forest produce, is the financial backbone of around 8 lakh people, mostly belonging to tribal community.
- Noted researcher and scholar Bhaskar Mishra will be felicitated with the prestigious ‘Sri Jagannath Chetana Gabesak Samman’ by ‘Sri Jagannath Chetana Gabesana Pratisthan’ during an event in Puri December 10, an official said Wednesday.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday granted two months time to the Union Jal Shakti Ministry to file a status report with respect to the meetings convened by it to resolve the dispute related to Polavaram project among Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh with talks.
- There is no proposal to alter the existing reservation scheme, the government said Wednesday, a month after the Supreme Court upheld 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in admissions and government jobs.
- Sultanpuri’s Bobi, who Wednesday shattered the proverbial glass ceiling to become the MCD’s first councillor from the transgender community, believes her victory was a celebration of the change in society towards transpersons.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday launched android version 2.0 of its mobile application, which will give access to law officers and nodal officers of various union ministries to watch court proceedings real time.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday directed the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to put on record relevant records relating to the government's 2016 decision to demonetise currency notes of `1000 and `500 denomination for its perusal.
- There were nearly eight times as many heatwaves, 27 in all, and lightning strikes rose more than 111 times, killing 907 people, the Ministry of Earth Sciences said in a report to parliament. Thunderstorms increased more than five times to 240. This year's 2,183 deaths due to such events until last month were the highest since 2019's 3,017. Lightning and floods and heavy rains accounted for 78% of the deaths this year, the data showed.
- The Reserve Bank Wednesday lowered the country’s GDP growth forecast to 6.8 per cent for the current fiscal from 7 per cent earlier, on account of continued geo-political tensions and tightening of global financial conditions.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar are among six Indians who have made it to the Forbes’ annual list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
- Arun Kumar Singh, former chairman of oil refining and marketing company BPCL, was Wednesday appointed chairman and managing director of ONGC -- the first instance of a retired person being appointed the head of a Maharatna PSU.
- Odisha has won three National awards in the prestigious Annual India Sanitation Coalition (ISC)-FICCI Sanitation Awards 2022 which were declared today at the awards function held at New Delhi.
- The Srimandir administration has decided to restrict servitors and staff from using smartphones inside the Shree Jagannath temple from the 1st of January 2023.
- Seven students of Khalikote junior college here have been rusticated from the campus for ragging to juniors. The action has been taken on the recommendations of the anti-ragging committee of the institute.
- Skipper Rohit Sharma became the first Indian, and just the second batter world-wide, in international cricket to hit 500 sixes during the second ODI against Bangladesh in Dhaka.
- Vigilance officials recovered huge amount cash from Komna section forester Ghanashyam Sabar in Odisha’s Nuapada district today.According to sources, Vigilance sleuths intercepted Sabar on NH-353 while he was travelling to Khariar from Komna on a motorcycle (OD 26F 4075) and recovered Rs 5,05,000 in cash from his possession.
- City-based CARE Hospitals, one of the largest multi-specialty hospitals in Odisha, was announced as the winner at The Economic Times Healthcare Awards 2022 and Indian Chambers of Commerce Healthcare Excellence Awards 2022. The Economic Times ceremony took place on 17th November 2022 at Gurgaon and ICC on 18th November 2022.
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