- Ten months after its landslide victory in West Bengal Assembly polls, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) steamrolled Wednesday the entire opposition in the civic elections, bagging 102 of the 108 municipalities, an SEC official said
- Thirty-two kilograms gold jewellery worth over `16 crore were seized by the GRP at the railway station here Wednesday. Four persons have been detained in this connection and they have been identified as Dixit Hasamukhlal Jain, Mahesh Uma Sare, Suresh Sahadev Khabe and Dipak Ananta Padel.
- The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to allow stone mining activities in the vicinity of Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha’s Balasore till implementation of the Comprehensive Wildlife Management Plan by the state government as approved by the standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL)
- India Wednesday abstained on a UN General Assembly resolution that strongly deplored Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the third abstention in less than a week by the country in the world body on resolutions on the escalating crisis between Moscow and Kyiv.
- Coal Ministry has received 26 bids for auction of eleven Coal Mines for Sale of Coal. Two or more bids have been received for five coal mines. The process of 4th tranche of auction of coal mines for sale of coal was launched by the Nominated Authority, Ministry of Coal on 16th December last year.
- The Election Commission is likely to take a decision on re-polling at nine booths in Manipur's Churachandpur district where clashes reportedly took place during elections.
- Foreign investors pulled out more than 35,500 crore rupees from the Indian capital markets so far in February. According to the depositories data, Foreign Portfolio investors, or FPIs, pulled out 31,158 crore.
- Petrol and diesel price hikes are likely to resume after state elections get over next week to bridge the Rs 9 a litre gap created by international oil prices soaring past USD 100 a barrel.
- Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, nearly 17,000 Indian nationals have left Ukraine's borders since the advisories were issued. He said, it includes some Indians who have not registered with the Embassy earlier.
- Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant and opening batter Prithvi Shaw all took to social media to cheer for the Indian women's cricket team ahead of their World Cup campaign opener against arch-rivals Pakistan on Sunday.
- Indian shooting ace Saurabh Chaudhary won the gold medal in the men's 10m air pistol event, opening the country's account in the year's first ISSF World Cup on 01 Mar.
- FIFPRO, the global footballers' union, announced that two Ukrainian footballers, 21-year-old Vitalii Sapylo and 25-year-old Dmytro Martynenko, have been killed in Kyiv amid Ukraine-Russia.
- The first tranche of the aid will be submitted to the Board for approval this week, followed by $200 million in fast-disbursing support for health and education, World Bank President David Malpass said in a joint statement with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
- The Centre Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that 96.8 per cent of India's adult population have been administered with first dose of the Covid vaccine and 81.3 per cent have been administered the second dose.
- India on Wednesday reported a total of 7,554 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,29,38,599, while the active cases dipped to 85,680, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
- A special CBI court has sentenced six convicts, including impersonators, candidates and middlemen, to five years in jail in connection with the Vyapam case.
- The Government Railway Police (GRP) seized gold jewellery worth over Rs 16 crore from Mumbai-Bhubaneswar Konark Express from the railway station
- The second-largest city of Kharkiv is witnessing bombardment even as the Kremlin faces increasing isolation on the world stage. Sources said, Russian troops have seized Ukraine’s Kherson, a strategically important city.
- Russia's invasion of Ukraine entered its eighth day today. Major cities are still under Ukraine's control and Russia has stepped up its offensive and is now bombing civilian areas too.
- Responding to a recently released study by Lancet, which claimed that 19 lakh children in India lost a parent or caregiver to Covid 19, the Ministry of Women and Child Development on Wednesday said that “the findings have no correlation to ground realities”
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