- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched an unified emergency helpline number ‘112’ to provide three emergency services to public.
- Arun Govil , in Ramanand Sagar's TV serial 'Ramayan', actor joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) .
- 970 people allegedly died and 50 people were reportedly injured in lightning strikes in the last three years.
- The central government urged the Delhi High Court to restrain WhatsApp from implementing its new privacy policy.
- Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said lockdown is an option but he trusts people to follow the norms on their own.
- Maharashtra alone reported the highest daily new cases at 25,833 or 65% of the daily cases. The western state was followed by Punjab with 2,369 cases while Kerala reported 1,899 new cases.
- Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly will be held in eight phases starting from March 27 with the final round of voting taking place on April 29.
- Analysis shows that children in the age group of 0-14 years are less affected by COVID-19, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed .
- In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said 12,867 children were adopted by Indians and 2,094 by foreign citizens from 2017 to 2021 till March 16.
- India's largest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced salary hikes for all its employees. The salary hikes would be effective from April 1.
- The Union education ministry said that social science research in the country has witnessed significant improvement between 2015 and 2020 and research publication has gone up by 140% during the period.
- With an estimated 2.64 million TB patients, India has the largest burden of TB globally in terms of absolute numbers, Vardhan was quoted
- A total 61.24 metric tonne paddy worth Rs 11,441 crore has been procured from the farmers in Odisha . The paddy procurement process is on and will continue till March 31in Odisha
- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will establish a 'Space Technology Incubation Centre' (S-TIC) at the National Institute of Technology in Rourkela to carry out research and product development in space technology and applications.
- More than 2 lakh olive ridleys have turned up for mass nesting at Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Kendrapara district in last 10 days.
- In view of the spike in the number of novel coronavirus cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has made RT-PCR Covid-19 test report mandatory for people entering the shopping malls.
- The Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala will be opened for the five-day monthly pooja during the Malayalam month of Meenam and for the annual 10-day Uthram festival.
- In a major judgment on gender-related crimes, the Supreme Court on Thursday stressed that courts should not suggest marriage or compromise between the accused and the victim in rape cases.
- Isolated parts in the hill states of north India are likely to receive heavy rainfall and snowfall from March 22-23, while the plains are likely to receive light precipitation from March 21-24, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday.
- The first ever night flight took off for Delhi from the Srinagar international Airport on Friday
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