- India logged 41,195 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,20,77,706, while the active cases increased to 3,87,987, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.
- COVID-19 restrictions in West Bengal have been extended till August 30 with relaxations in the curbs during the night hours, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced Thursday.
- India's boxing sensation Lovlina Borgohain received a red carpet welcome at Assam's Guwahati when she returned home after her bronze medal win at the Tokyo Olympics.
- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that the central government wants to bring 15 crore out-of-school children into the education system.
- Several prominent personalities, including a Trinamool Congress parliamentarian and authors, made an appeal to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to lift the ban on cycling from 64 arterial roads in Kolkata.
- Chief Justice of India N V Ramana Thursday said that false narratives and misconceptions created in minds of the people that judges supposedly lead an easy life need to be refuted by educating the public about the work put by them with limited resources.
- B.1.617.2 identified in India in late 2020, potentially more transmissible & serious with higher hospitalization rates with modest reduction in vaccine effectiveness
- Veteran space scientist G Madhavan Nair expressed shock over the unsuccessful GSLV-F10 launch mission but said the ISRO is resilient enough to bounce back.
- The Shree Jagannath Temple in Odisha's Puri, which was closed for public since April 24 due to the COVID-19 situation, reopened today for the family members of the servitors.
- India achieves 100 GW Mile Stone of Installed Renewable Energy Capacity. The total installed renewable energy capacity in India, excluding large hydro, has crossed the mile-stone of 100 GW. India stands at 4th position in the world in terms of installed RE capacity, 5th in solar and 4th in wind in terms of installed capacity.
- The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) mission Geo Imaging Satellite (Gisat-1) failed early on 12 Aug (Thursday). The GISAT-1 is officially named EOS-03 (earth observation satellite 03).
- GSLV-F10) took off at 5.43am on 12 Aug as scheduled and the core stage burn out happened as planned, propelling the rocket in its intended path. Second stage ignition happened as planned two minutes into the launch and but after nearly four minutes after take off, as planned, after the second stage shut off. The cryogenic stage did not ignite, rendering the mission a failure.
- Announcement of Prime Minister's Shram Awards for the year 2018 . These awards are to be awarded to 69 workers employed in the Departmental Undertakings & Public Sector Undertakings of the Central and State Governments and Private Sector Units employing 500 or more workers in recognition of their distinguished performance, innovative abilities, outstanding contribution in the field of productivity and exhibition of exceptional courage and presence of mind.
- Centre notifies ban on single-use plastic items from July 1, 2022, increases thickness of polythene bags 50 to 120 microns. polythene bags of less than 75 microns in thickness will be banned from September 30 and bags of less than 120 microns will be banned from December 31 next year.
- An ex gratia amount of 5 lakh to the kin of each deceased person and Rs 50 thousand to those who are injured in this tragic incident, free treatment would also be provided to the injured by the State Govt.
- Indore, the country’s cleanest city, has now been declared as the first ''water plus'' city of India under the Swachh Survekshan 2021, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said .
- The Indian Army has planned to construct a tunnel similar to the Atal Tunnel under the Brahmaputra river in Assam for unhindered movement of its vehicles, informed Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. The proposed tunnel would be located upstream of the Brahmaputra river from Misa to Tezpur. Its length is expected to be 12-15 kilometres in length.
- In a letter, Additional Chief Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department, PK Mohapatra directed District Collectors, municipal commissioners, Director of Capital Hospital, Superintendents of medical colleges and CDMOs and PHOs to ensure capacity building for managing high number of cases expected during the predicted third wave.
- WHO's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said even though vaccines may not be able to provide absolute protection against different variants of SARS-CoV2, it can certainly reduce the risk of death and complications.
- The Maharashtra education department has put on hold its decision to reopen schools after objections from its task force on Covid.
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