- Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said his party will try to expand its footprint outside the state and aim for a national role even as he accused BJP of using Hindutva as per a political convenience.
- India reported 3,33,533 new coronavirus cases today, slightly lower than yesterday's figure of 3.37 lakh cases, posting a very marginal improvement in the country's Covid curve.
- Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan and Tamil Nadu's MK Stalin on Sunday joined the growing list of Chief Ministers who have emphatically opposed the central government's proposed changes to the assignment rules of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi after unveiling the hologram statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate on Sunday evening, said that the government has a target to build a new India before the 100th year of independence.
- Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was on Sunday conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by the Netaji Research Bureau on the 125th birth anniversary of the legendary freedom fighter.
- The Prime Minister conferred Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskars for the year 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 in the investiture ceremony. This award was instituted by the Union Government to recognize and honour the invaluable contribution and selfless service rendered by the individuals and organisations in India in the field of disaster management.
- For 2022, Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management and Professor Vinod Sharma, for 2021, Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society and Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari, for 2020 Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre, Uttarakhand and Kumar Munnan Singh and for 2019, 8th Battalion of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) located at Ghaziabad were honoured with Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar.
- Suspected Naxalites blew up a bridge on the Barakar river in Jharkhand’s Giridih district on Sunday. The explosion was caused by a detonator around 2 am. The Naxalites are reportedly demanding the release of their leader Prashant Bose and his wife Sheela Marandi. The bridge connected Jharkhand with West Bengal.
- CM M.K.Stalin has appealed to the Central Government to drop the proposed amendments to IAS (Cadre) Rules 1954 and instead engage with the State Governments to further strengthen the federal spirit of the Nation.
- NASA on Friday had announced to launch a spacecraft under Artemis I mission to explore the smallest asteroid ever to be visited by a spacecraft. Named Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout, the shoebox-sized spacecraft will explore the asteroid which is less than 18 metres in diameter using solar radiation for propulsion.
- As many as 8,648 nomination papers submitted by candidates for election to various positions in the Panchayati Raj Institutions in the state were rejected during scrutiny, officials said Sunday. During the scrutiny of the nomination papers, 5,544 nominations filed for the election to ward member position were rejected due to various reasons .
- The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is in the community transmission stage in India and has become dominant in multiple metros where new cases have been rising exponentially, the INSACOG has said in its latest bulletin. It also said BA.2 lineage, an infectious sub-variant of Omicron, has been found in a substantial fraction in the country .
- All state government employees including Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officers working in Mayurbhanj district Sunday resolved to wear black badges demanding action against Union Minister Bishweswar Tudu for allegedly assaulting two officers recently
- The Supreme Court has set aside a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order directing compensation of `20 lakh to the heirs of the victims of a firecracker factory blast in Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar district last year in which 19 workers were killed.
- “Abide With Me”, written by Scottish Anglican poet and hymnologist Henry Francis Lyte in 1847, had been part of the Beating Retreat ceremony since 1950. The Indian Army announced Saturday that it has been dropped from this year's ceremony .
- Ahead of the first-phase polling in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP MLA from Agra’s Fatehabad constituency, Jitendra Verma, resigned from the party and said that he has joined the Samajwadi Party.
- A total of 21,914 families who have lost their loved ones to COVID-19 in Delhi have received a one-time financial aid of ₹ 50,000 from the Delhi Disaster Response Fund (DDRF), officials said on Sunday.
- A 17-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur died on Sunday, four days after allegedly being assaulted by policemen over allegations of stealing his uncle's cellphone.
- The Samajwadi Party has urged the Election Commission to stop the opinion polls from being aired on some news channels with immediate effect.In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, the party claimed that airing of the polls is a violation of the model code of conduct and they can misguide the voters and influence the election.
- India has emerged as the largest exporter of gherkins in the world. India has exported cucumber and gherkins to the tune of 1,23,846 Metric Tonnes with a value of USD 114 million during April-October (2020-21).
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