- With this, India’s daily positivity rate stands at 1.11 per cent. The total number of recoveries rose to more than 4.23 crore (4,23,07,686) after 16,765 Covid patients recovered on Sunday.
- The third and final day of vote counting has already started while Biju Janata Dal (BJD) continues to lead in the Odisha Panchayat Polls.
- As per the trends so far on the second day, BJD was highest at 553 followed by BJP at 31, congress with 29, and others with 07.
- For the first time in the poll history of Koraput district, an Independent woman candidate has emerged winner from a Zilla Parishad seat by defeating another Independent woman candidate backed by three major political parties.
- Ukraine has lodged a complaint against Russia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to get it to halt its invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. "Russia must be held accountable for manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression," Zelensky declared in a tweet.
- Aam Aadmi Party accused the BJP-ruled MCD to have refused to make its annual audit reports public for the last four years to cover-up its corruption.
- The Delhi Police has installed a digital e-kiosk at the Parliament Street police station here to smoothen the public-police interface and facilitate citizens, officials said on Sunday.
- State-owned Bharat Broadband Nigam Ltd has cancelled a 19,000-crore tender that was floated for connecting villages across 16 States with an optical fibre-based high-speed broadband network, following the lack of participation of eligible bidders.
- The Centre has increased the compensation for hit and run accident victims with effect from April 1. The compensation has been increased from ₹12,500 to ₹50,000 for grievous hurt and from ₹25,000 to ₹2,00,000 in case of death. The new scheme will be applicable for all roads and highways across India
- Political strategist Prashant Kishor visited the Kaleshwaram project in Telangana's Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Sunday. This comes amid speculations that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) may have hired Kishor ahead of the 2023 state Legislative Assembly polls. Kishore, who was accompanied by actor Prakash Raj, also visited other reservoirs such as the Mallanna Sagar reservoir.
- France and Canada on Sunday became the latest countries to close their airspace to all Russian aircraft in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are among the nations that have banned.
- The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is leading to a landslide victory in the panchayat polls for which counting is still underway. According to officials of the State Election Commission (SEC), counting for the 315 Zilla Parishad (ZP) zones started Saturday while counting for 305 ZP zones was underway Sunday. Counting of votes for the remaining zones will be taken up February 28.
- In a major move aimed to cripple Russia's economy, the US along with its key allies, including EU and the UK, have decided to disconnect key sanctioned Russian banks from the global financial system SWIFT and impose restrictive measures on its central bank in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
- Faced with a declining number of camels in Rajasthan, the state government has announced a ‘Camel Protection and Development Policy’ in its budget 2022-23.
- Maharashtra Congress' Nana Patole on Sunday demanded that the "role" of then Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, be investigated in the alleged illegal tapping of phones of select politicians after Pune police registered an FIR against Rashmi Shukla.
- The ruling BJD won 268 Zilla Parishad seats of the 300 declared so far with the counting for the panchayat polls continuing for the second day on Sunday, officials said.
- The court ruled that Bihar’s Lohar or Lohaar community is not the same as “Lohra or Lohra”, which are ST communities in several districts.
- EU countries will send "fighter jets" to Ukraine at Kyiv's request to help it counter the Russian air and land assault, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Sunday.
- Leaders of the G7 on Sunday threatened fresh sanctions against Russia as the top US diplomat Antony Blinken said the group of wealthy nations was "fully aligned" against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
- Police detained more than 2,000 people at anti-war protests held in 48 cities across Russia on Sunday, a protest monitoring group said, as people defied the authorities to show their anger over Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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