- India reported 19,968 new COVID-19 cases and 673 related deaths yesterday, with the virus-related death count rising to 5,11,903 across the country.
- Nearly 70 per cent polling was recorded till 5 pm in the assembly elections in Punjab, while in the third of the seven phase polls in Uttar Pradesh, it was over 61 per cent, according to official data.
- The District General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha, Krishna Yadav, was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district on Sunday.
- India’s relationship with China is going through a very difficult phase, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said .
- Rain and thundershower lashed several parts of the state, including the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, Sunday.
- The Odisha State Legal Services Authority (OSLSA), in collaboration with Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII), launched a legal aid clinic for transgenders in Bhubaneswar Sunday. The clinic is said to be the first of its kind in state
- Change is the need of the hour, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray said after the two leaders met here Sunday as part of efforts to bring together like-minded parties against the BJP at the national level.
- Citing the decline in Covid-19 cases, the Election Commission Sunday restored the number of star campaigners a party can field for campaigning in the ongoing polls in five states. Now, recognised national and state parties can field a maximum of 40 star campaigners. Other parties which are registered but not recognised can now have 20 star campaigners.
- The Maharashtra Police have filed an FIR against Sameer Wankhede, the controversial former NCB Zonal Director (Mumbai) at the Kopri police station of Thane district for getting a liquor license for his bar by allegedly furnishing false information. The FIR against Sameer Wankhede was lodged around 8 p.m. Saturday .
- World’s largest NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace, OpenSea Sunday confirmed that it has been hit by a phishing attack and at least 32 users had lost their valuable NFTs worth $1.7 million. OpenSea Co-Founder and CEO, Devin Finzer acknowledged the phishing attack, confirming that 32 users have lost NFTs so far .
- Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have withdrawn a net `18,856 crore from the Indian markets in February so far amid geopolitical tensions and chances of a rate hike by the US Federal Reserve. As per depositories data, overseas investors took out `15,342 crore from equities and `3,629 crore from the bonds market between February 1-18. At the same time, they invested `115 crore in hybrid instruments. This is the fifth consecutive month of foreign fund outflows.
- Five of the 10 most valued firms together added `85,712.56 crore in market valuation last week, with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) emerging as the biggest gainer. The market valuation of TCS jumped by `36,694.59 crore to reach `14,03,716.02 crore, while that of Reliance Industries (RIL) climbed `32,014.47 crore to stand at `16,39,872.16 crore.
- MINI India is gearing up for the launch of its first all-electric Cooper SE in India February 24, 2022. According to MINI, the first batch of 30 units allotted for India have already been booked.
- A case has been registered against 18 police personnel, including an SP, in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur for an alleged fake encounter. In October 2004, Dhanpal and Prahlad, both residents of Chachuapur village under Jalalabad police station, were shot dead by police on allegations of being members of the gangster Saragana Naresha Dhimar's gang.
- The Central University of Odisha (CUO) and the Council of Analytical Tribal Studies (COATS), Koraput, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Sunday for next three years to collaborate on research and development concerning tribals and tribal areas of Odisha, especially the undivided district of Koraput.
- The government will hire a transaction adviser to help manage the conversion of interest dues related to deferred spectrum payments and adjusted gross revenue into equity in Vodafone Idea Ltd, a senior government official said
- Tata group, the new owner of Air India, has begun the process of restoring pilot and air crew salaries in a wider restructuring of wages and allowances to align them with those of its three other airlines. Air India.
- The Centre’s move to prevent students applying for the national overseas scholarship (NOS) programme from pursuing humanities and social sciences courses related to Indian culture in foreign universities has attracted criticism from both the Opposition and the teaching fraternity.
- India is set to unveil an ambitious ₹1 trillion programme to build 5,795km of national highways in 117 so-called aspirational districts. The road ministry identified 221 projects for expansion, in addition to the 5,566km of highways already being built in these districts, comprising 222 projects at a total cost of ₹66,000 crore.
- Perhaps the oldest woman of the region, 114-year-old Indro Bai cast her vote in the Jalalabad Assembly segment in through postal ballot. Born in Sialkot district of Pakistan, before the Partition, she has been living in Ghubaya village that falls under the Jalalabad segment. She exercised her right of franchise on February 14 through the postal ballot.
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