- Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with Covid-19 on a single day this week, according to estimates from the government’s top health authority, making the country’s outbreak by far the world's largest, Bloomberg reported.
- The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology will be conducted June 4, 2023, IIT Guwahati announced Friday.
- Sixteen Indian Army personnel including three Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) were killed in a road accident when the vehicle they were travelling in fell into a gorge while negotiating a sharp turn at Zema in North Sikkim, the Army said.
- Eminent educationist, social activist, founder of KIIT & KISS and Lok Sabha MP from Kandhamal Dr. Achyuta Samanta was conferred the honorary D.Litt degree by Utkal University in recognition of his immense contribution to the field of education and social service. This is the 50th honorary degree conferred on him.
- Dr Gobinda Chandra Dash, a noted physician of Kendrapara town, who treated Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 during his visit to Bhubaneswar, died at his residence here Friday. He was 96. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
- With the surge in Covid-19 cases in some countries like China, Japan, USA and France, the state government has advised the people to follow Covid appropriate behaviour voluntarily.
- The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has saved Rs 118.29 crore on diesel costs by using a technology called head on generation (HOG) in trains between April and November this year.
- Due to ease-of-doing business policies, an investment of `30,000 crore has been firmed up in the last nine months, which will create new employment opportunities for thousands of youngsters said Bhagwat Mann.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded another defiant note on his return to his nation’s capital Friday following his wartime visit to the United States, saying his forces are “working toward victory” even as Russia warned that there would be no end to the war until it achieved its military aims.
- There were 198 government companies and corporations with accumulated losses of `2,00,419 crore, as March 31, 2021, and of these, the net worth of 88 companies had been completely eroded by their accumulated losses, a CAG report said.
- Russia may cut oil output by 5%-7% in early 2023, as it responds to price caps on its crude and refined products, and halt sales to the countries that support them, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told state television Friday.
- New Delhi Television Ltd’s (NDTV) founders said Friday they have decided to transfer most of their shares in the company to billionaire Gautam Adani, giving his conglomerate control over nearly 65% of the news network.
- Nine bills were passed by the two Houses of Parliament in the winter session that concluded on Friday.
- The Allahabad High Court reserved its judgement on a civil revision petition filed by the Gyanvapi mosque committee challenging a Varanasi court order.
- The vaccine, which is delivered without a needle through the nose, will be available in a few days at private centres across the country.
- The CBI had booked the retired IPS officer and others in the phone-tapping case on July 7. Four days later, the Enforcement Directorate registered a case against Pandey and arrested him on July 19; the CBI arrested him on September 24.
- The revision would be applicable to all retired defence personnel up to June 30, 2019, but not including those who took pre-mature retirement till July 1, 2014
- It is alleged that Venugopal Dhoot provided crores of rupees to a firm he had set up with Deepak Kochhar and two relatives six months after the Videocon Group got Rs 3,250 crore as loan from ICICI Bank in 2012
- India ranked 107th out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022, down from the 101st position the previous year.
- The 15-nation Security Council, under India's Presidency this month, adopted its first-ever resolution on Myanmar on Wednesday.
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