- legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar who passed away this morning at the age of 92 years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first ones to share the sad news and said he is "anguished beyond words".
- India reported 1,07,474 new Covid cases today, 16% lower than yesterday. The positivity rate fell to 7.42 %. The active cases constitute 2.90 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate decreased to 95.91 per cent.
- Chardham Yatra 2022, The portals of Badrinath Dham will open for devotees on 8th May.
- Social activist Anna Hazare has written a letter to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray against the state government's decision to allow the wine sale in supermarkets and walk-in shops. He also warned the Maharashtra government that he would go on an infinite strike against the decision. Earlier, Hazare had termed the decision "unfortunate", saying that it could result in liquor addiction.
- PM Modi unveils 'Statue of Equality' in Hyderabad to commemorate 11th-century Bhakti Saint Sri Ramanujacharya (216-feet tall 'Statue of Equality' ) at Muchintal near Shamshabad . Ramanujacharya, who promoted the idea of equality in all aspects of living including faith, caste and creed. The statue is made of 5 metals ie Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass and Zinc. This is one of the tallest metallic statues in sitting position in the world.
- PM Narendra Modi, said that India has set a target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2070. He called for a Pro Planet People movement to combat climate change and "to connect every individual with climate".
- This year's budget has brought some much-needed cheer to defence research. The finance minister's announcement that 25% of defence research funds would be earmarked for the private sector, startups and the academia is a long-awaited reform. This measure will be a shot in the arm for 'Make in India', raising innovation to unprecedented levels.
- The government on Friday told Lok Sabha that 83 Indian defence personnel, including prisoners of war are believed to be in Pakistan’s custody.
- A bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi, located at Union Square near Manhattan was vandalised on Friday. Condemning the incident, the Consulate General of India in New York said the matter has also been taken up for immediate investigation. The 8-foot-high statue was donated by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation on October 2, 1986, to mark Gandhi's 117th birth anniversary.
- Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister GL Peiris is scheduled to visit India from Sunday on a three-day visit to strengthen bilateral ties including in areas of trade and connectivity.
- The Centre has placed a purchase order with Biological E for five crore doses of Covid vaccine Corbevax each costing `145 excluding taxes, official sources said Saturday.
- Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown
- The Mahanadi Water Dispute Tribunal Saturday deferred the hearing in pleas filed by Odisha and Chhattisgarh over the sharing of Mahanadi river water to February 12.
- At least 159 Palestinian protesters were injured during clashes with the Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). The medical teams treated 79 Palestinians injured near the villages of Beita and Beit Dajan, located south and east of Nablus city
- IPO-bound Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has launched a campaign for revival of individual lapsed policies. Policies, which are in a lapsed condition during the premium paying term and not completed policy term, are eligible to be revived in this campaign, which will begin from February 7 and March 25, 2022, a press release said Saturday
- Tripura is set to have a national law university soon, as a bill seeking its creation will be tabled in the next session of assembly, a top official of the state's education department said Saturday.
- The National Medical Commission (NMC) Saturday issued guidelines that the fees of 50 per cent seats in private medical colleges and deemed universities should be at par with the fees in government medical colleges of that particular state or UT.
- The Supreme Court Bar Association Saturday requested Chief Justice of India N V Ramana that physical hearings in the apex court be reassumed to the pre-pandemic level as the Covid situation is in control
- The first world leadership convention on ‘World is One' was organised by World Leadership Academy (WLA) in association with KIIT Deemed to be University Saturday.
- The Supreme Court has directed the West Bengal government to release Sagar Behera of Bhadrak, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case of 2001
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