- India reported a total of 13,405 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the virus tally to over 4.28 crore cases. According to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the number of active cases has fallen below two lakh after 49 days.
- A special Air India flight from Ukraine carrying nearly 240 passengers has landed in Delhi tonight, news agency PTI reported. The Boeing 787 aircraft left Ukraine's capital Kyiv at 6 pm and reached Delhi around midnight.
- The Election Commission on Tuesday further eased Covid-induced restrictions imposed on campaigning in assembly polls by allowing road shows with prior permission of district authorities.
- The National People's Party or the NPP will emerge as the single largest party in Manipur, asserted its party president Conrad Sangma. A comment which is likely to cause some concern within the BJP, its alliance partner.
- Farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki released hundreds of cattle at an open ground near the venue of a rally by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to highlight their problems in handling stray cattle.
- Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been given Z-plus security cover during his 21-day release on furlough from a Haryana jail where he has been serving a sentence, officials said on Tuesday.
- Russian lawmakers Tuesday authorised President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside the country - a move that could presage a broader attack on Ukraine after the US said an invasion was already underway there.
- The fourth phase of panchayat poll went off smoothly in the state Tuesday. As per preliminary reports, 73 per cent of 51.31 lakh voters exercised their franchise. The polling figure may change when the final figure comes in Wednesday, State Election Commissioner Aditya Prasad Padhi said. The remote Nagada village in Sukinda block in Jajpur recorded 83 per cent polling.
- The state Higher Education (HE) department Tuesday directed the Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC) to cancel the admission of 28 students on the ground of furnishing fake Persons with Disability (PwD) certificates.
- Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) Amar Patnaik and Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Supriya Sule are among the 11 Members of Parliament who will be getting the prestigious Sansad Ratna Award 2022, the Prime Point Foundation said Tuesday.
- The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear the case relating to the Pegasus surveillance scandal February 25, after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta requested for a new date before the Chief Justice NV Ramana, pointing out that he is supposed to be arguing a different part-heard case Wednesday
- The Ministry of Women and Child Development has extended the PM CARES for Children Scheme till February 28, 2022. Earlier, the scheme was valid till December 31, 2021.
- This is for the first time that a separate agriculture Budget will be presented in the state. In his last year’s Budget speech, CM Gehlot had announced to present a separate agriculture budget. The Budget is expected to include some big announcements related to farmers, they said
- Bird flu has resurfaced in India with cases being reported from Maharashtra's Thane and Palghar regions. Thousands of birds have been culled in Palghar alone. However, an expert said that the disease is unlikely to spread majorly in the country.
- The 21 Indian fishermen who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy last month for allegedly poaching in the country's territorial waters were released on the instructions from a magistrate court, officials said Tuesday.
- An elderly woman died at a polling station in the fourth phase of Odisha Panchayat polls in Berhampur Gram Panchayat under Nilgiri Block in Balasore district today. The deceased has been identified as Saraswati Barik.
- Overspeeding in Odisha capital will now attract a hefty penalty of Rs 7,000. The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) has installed Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Traffic Violation Detection System (TVDS) at 13 places here for identifying such traffic rule violations.
- The Meteorological Centre situated in Bhubaneswar predicted rainfall over several districts of Odisha from tomorrow.
- The Kulda opencast project (OCP) of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) in the western district of Sundergarh has become the first coal mine of company to achieve its targeted 16 million tonne (MT) dry fuel production for financial year 2021-22.
- Bollywood star John Abraham has joined hands with producer Dinesh Vijan for the first time ever for an upcoming action thriller titled ‘Tehran’. The movie is slated to release on January 26, 2023.
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