- Former Punjab Police chief getting a blanket protection from arrest in any case against him in future has been termed as "shocking" by the Supreme Court.
- India's COVID-19 case tally rose to 4,29,45,160 with 6,561 people testing positive for the infection in a day while active cases declined to 77,152 on Thursday.
- One hundred and thirty Russian buses are ready to evacuate Indian students and other foreigners from Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy to Russia’s Belgorod Region.
- Russia is ready to send 130 buses to evacuate stranded Indian students from war-torn Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy cities to its Belgorod Region, Russian National Defence Control Centre head Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said Thursday
- The Central University of Odisha (CUO), Koraput and the Forum for Integrated Development and Research (FIDR) India, Gurugram has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) through online mode for next three years to collaborate on establishing a Digital Tribal Literacy Centre for the tribal youth of Odisha.
- Dismissing petitions filed by the Odisha government challenging the Orissa High Court order of 2008, the Supreme Court Thursday held that the state had power to levy excise duty only on alcoholic liquor meant for human consumption.
- According to the data shared by the commissionerate police, cyber crooks siphoned off more than Rs1.39 crore from victims’ accounts in February, 2022. Denizens in the city have lost Rs1.31 crore in January this year.
- More than 1 billion people aged 12 to 35 years risk losing their hearing due to prolonged and excessive exposure to loud music and other recreational sounds, the World.
- In a setback to Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government’s plans to develop three state capitals, the Andhra Pradesh High Court Thursday directed it to complete implementation of Amaravati capital city master plan in six months.
- A whopping 93 per cent of Indians live in areas where air pollution levels exceed WHO standards, according to a global report. The report revealed that life expectancy in India, as a result, has been shortened by about 1.5 years.
- Companies’ push to flee Russian market .BP abandoned its $14 billion stake in Rosneft .Toyota halting production at St Petersburg plant. Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen suspended exports .Volvo Cars stopped deliveries, Ford halted operations .
- Companies’ push to flee Russian market - Harley-Davidson halted motorcycle shipments. Ikea paused Russian exports and imports .H&M, Nike paused sales in Russian stores . AP Moller-Maersk stops making Russian port calls .Apple stops selling iPhone and popular devices inside Russia .Dell Technologies suspended sales in both Ukraine, Russia . Netflix pauses future projects, acquisitions.
- The Supreme Court Thursday directed the Maharashtra government and the State Election Commission (SEC) not to act upon the interim report of Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission to reserve seats for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the upcoming local bodies election.
- The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a draft rule, the vehicle owners will have to display the fitness certificate and the validity of the registration mark in a prescribed manner on the vehicles. As per the rules, the fitness certificate should be displayed in the 'DD-MM-YYYY' format.
- A court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district has sentenced a 74-year-old man to 10 years of imprisonment for raping a teenager four years ago.
- The CBI has said that Indrani Mukerjea's plea claiming that her daughter Sheena Bora, whom she is accused of killing, is alive, is a "figment of her imagination" and "next to impossible".
- Senior Congress leader and Jatni MLA Suresh Routray announced the name of Madhusmita Acharya, daughter-in-law of late Congress MLA Kangali Charan Panda, as the party’s Mayor Candidate for BMC.
- The special clinic started functioning on Tuesday. This will function on every Tuesday from 2 pm to 5pm. Additional Professor, Medicine Dr. Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty will be the in-charge for special clinic in geriatric medicine.
- The State CT and GST Enforcement Wing on Thursday conducted raids on tobacco manufacturers and traders on the allegation of evading taxes in 30 districts.
- Kathak dancer, researcher and choreographer Aditi Mangaldas has been selected for the prestigious Mahari Award 2022. Aditi will receive the award during the three day dance festival 28th Guru Pankaj Utsav, scheduled to be held at Rabindra Mandap in Bhubaneswar from on March 15 to 17.
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