- India recorded 22,270 new COVID-19 cases and 325 related deaths yesterday, with the virus-related death count rising to 5,11,230 across the country.
- A delegation of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MPs on Tuesday met Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal in New Delhi and demanded the release of a pending subsidy of Rs 6,081.45 crore.
- As many as 58 students at Shiralakoppa in Shivamogga district who had refused to remove their hijab and staged a demonstration against the government pre-university college administration were suspended.
- The government has received proposals from five companies for setting up electronic chip and display manufacturing plants with investment of Rs 1.53 lakh crore, an official statement said on Saturday.
- Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have expanded by two-and-a-half times across nine mega cities, including Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, in the last four months, the Power Ministry said on Saturday
- NTPC has recorded a generation of 314.89 Billion Units upto 18th Feb’22, surpassing the maximum annual generation of 314 BU achieved in 2020-21. Last year, the generation was 270.0 BU till February 18, indicating improved performance and an increase in demand for power in the current year
- Amid the raging row over the Hijab issue in Karnataka, the state government has told the High Court that its order dated February 5 did not ban the headscarf but only delegated the powers to decide the school uniform to the College Development Committees (CDC).
- Eighty per cent of India's adult population has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday. The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 175 crore, according to official data. “With the mantra of ‘sabka prayas’ under the leadership of PM @NarendraModiji, the country is moving at a fast pace towards 100 per cent immunisation,” he said.
- The Delhi government hosted a tribute concert at the Central Park in Connaught Place here on Saturday to pay homage to Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar. The 92-yearold melody queen died at a private hospital in Mumbai early this month
- All 117 Assembly seats in Punjab and 59 in Uttar Pradesh will go to the polls on Sunday,
- Senior journalist and Indian Express national bureau chief Ravish Tiwari passed away following a two-year-long battle with cancer. He was 40. Tiwari died in Gurgaon on Friday night
- K.V. Rajendranath Reddy assumed charge as Director-General of Police of Andhra Pradesg, at the police headquarters in Mangalagiri on 19 Feb.
- TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's meeting his Maharashtra counterpart and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai on Sunday. He is also expected to meet Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar in the evening.
- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Saturday said he wrote to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offering more talks between NATO Council, Russia to defuse the Ukrainian crisis.
- The government Saturday dismissed as "speculative" media reports related to LIC IPO data claiming that Covid-related deaths in 2021 could be much higher than those recorded officially.
- Two soldiers and a “C” category terrorist were killed in a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, officials said on Saturday.
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday opened over 12,000 “high-tech” classrooms spread across 240 government schools in the Capital. He said the AAP government has built over 20,000 new classrooms in Delhi in the last seven years.
- Traders at the city’s Palika Bazar are upset over the market being featured in the notorious markets list of theUnited States Trade Representative (USTR), with most demanding that the government come forward and defend them “against the fake allegation”.
- Amid the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka, leaders of all faiths Hindu seers, Muslim clerics, and representatives of the church –came together on Saturday calling for peace and harmony in the State.
- Four people have been arrested from Pune for allegedly duping 2,000 investors to the tune of ₹ 40 crore in a cryptocurrency fraud, Nagpur police said on Saturday.
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