- India reported 44,877 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, 11 per cent lower than yesterday's 50,407 cases. Daily positivity rate of 3.17 per cent is marginally lower than yesterday.
- Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday announced 25 lakh compensationfor families of Army soldiers from Jammu and Kashmir killed in the line of duty within the Union Territory or any other state.
- Indian Space Research Organisation's first launch mission of 2022, to orbit earth observation satellite EOS-04 onboard PSLV-C52, began early on Sunday, the space agency said.
- There cannot be automatic closure of defamation cases following issuance of a government order by a subsequent government, which withdrew all the cases filed against officials of the previous government, the Madras High Court has ruled.
- The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has decided to resume cooked food on all trains from 14th of this month. The catering services were suspended as a safety measure against the corona virus pandemic on 23rd March 2020.
- The CBI has booked ABG Shipyard Ltd and its then Chairman and Managing Director Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal along with others for allegedly cheating a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India of over Rs 22,842 crore. The company was sanctioned credit facilities from 28 banks and financial institutions with the SBI having exposure of Rs 2468.51 crore.
- CM Conrad K Sangma on 12 Feb flagged off Six Specialized Mobile Vaccination Units at Tura Civil Hospital, Tura, West Garo Hills district in collaboration with the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
- Voting ends peacefully in four municipal corporations. Siliguri 71.87, Chandannagar 71.49, Bidhannagar 72.02, Asansol 71.67. The State Election Commission said, polls were peaceful throughout the day.
- West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has constituted a 19-member national working committee. The committee includes her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim but excludes senior leaders Derek O'Brien and Saugata Roy.
- Industrialist and former chairman of Bajaj Group, Rahul Bajaj passed away on Saturday afternoon at Pune, Maharashtra. He was 83.
- The case relates to misuse of funds of Reliance Home Finance, for which its then auditors Price Waterhouse & Co (PwC) had refused to sign the annual accounts and then resigned.
- India has sent a consignment of medical supplies containing PPEs and medications to the Pacific Island country.
- Atal Tunnel has officially been certified by the World Book of Records, as the 'World's Longest Highway Tunnel Above 10,000 Feet', the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has said. BRO DG Lieutenant General Rajeev Chaudhry received the certificate this week. The tunnel, which is 9.02 km long and connects Manali to Lahaul-Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, was inaugurated in 2020.
- Britain has asked its nationals in Ukraine to leave the country in the next 48 hours as Russia could invade any day now. The UK Foreign Office's warning came as the US said that Russia is ready to invade the country.
- The NCB has arrested 22 people, including software engineers, a financial analyst, an MBA graduate and one of their own personnel as it busted a pan-India drug trafficking network that uses the 'darknet' and cryptocurrency to courier narcotics at home
- Intel Corp Friday launched a new chip for blockchain applications such as Bitcoin mining and minting NFTs to cash in on the rising usage of cryptocurrencies.
- Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Friday restrained Reliance Home Finance Limited (RHFL), industrialist Anil Ambani and three other individuals from the securities market for allegedly siphoning off funds from the company
- There are 9.66 lakh electric vehicles (EVs) plying on the roads in states and Union Territories, among which Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Bihar lead with impressive numbers, the Union government said.
- In an unprecedented move, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar prorogued the state Legislative Assembly from February 12, implying that the state government will have to take permission from the governor for the next session and it should begin with his speech.
- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned construction of permanent nature on the floodplain of River Mahanadi till further order.
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