- President Ram Nath Kovind presented Padma Shri to five eminent personalities from Odisha at a civil investiture ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. While Baba Balia, Shyamamani Devi, Narasingha Prasad Guru and Aditya Prasad Dash received the award from the President, Guruprasad Mohapatra was conferred with the Padma Shri posthumously.
- Congress's Ghulam Nabi Azad, who received the Padma Bhushan award from President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today, said, "It feels good when the country or the government recognises someone's work".
- A Muslim family in Bihar has donated land worth Rs.2.5 crore for construction of the world's largest Hindu temple--Virat Ramayan Mandirin the Kaithwalia area of East Champaran district in the state.
- India reported a total of 1,581 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the COVID-19 tally to 4,30,10,922. According to Union health ministry data, the active cases declined further to 23,913 today.
- State Govts responsibility to allocate land to set up Kendriya Vidyalayas schools, Dharmendra Pradhan in Parliament said.
- Pramod Sawant was picked for the post of chief minister in Goa and will lead the BJP government in the state for a second straight term.
- Former Chief Minister of Manipur N. Biren Singh took oath as the Chief Minister of the state for the second time.
- Pushkar Singh Dhami to continue as CM of Uttrakhand.
- BJP leader S Phangnon Konyak is set to become the first woman Rajya Sabha MP from Nagaland after winning the Rajya Sabha seat
- The TMC-led West Bengal government has introduced a common blue-and-white uniform featuring the 'Biswa Bangla' logo in all state-run schools.
- Loans amounting to three thousand 119 crore rupees have been released to the beneficiaries by the lending institutions under the PM SVANidhi Scheme so far.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about the lowering of interest on the Employees' Provident Fund from 8.5% to 8.1% for 2021-22.
- The CBI on Monday recovered around ₹28 lakh cash and incriminating documents from the premises of a Senior Intelligence Officer after conducting searches at several locations.
- Reacting to 'The Kashmir Files', CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said the film is creating a situation that may cause "great harm" to India's social unity and integrity.
- Walking bare feet in the palatial Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, 125-year-old Swami Sivananda received a standing ovation when he received the Padma Shri award from President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday.
- The setback in the High Court notwithstanding, the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government on Monday once again said it desires to have three capitals, one in each region, to ensure inclusive and balanced growth.
- India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, who died in a helicopter crash in December last year, was posthumously conferred Padma Vibhushan. His daughters Kritika and Tarini received the award on the CDS's behalf.
- The Gujarat government has acquired 99.3 per cent of land in five districts for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed rail corridor, popularly known as the bullet train project, the state Assembly was informed on Monday.
- The Lok Sabha Monday took up for discussion the issue of special recognition for schools dealing with differently-abled children.
- The Union government has not taken any decision for the disinvestment of the National Aluminium Company (Nalco), Union Minister of Mines and Coal Pralhad Joshi told Rajya Sabha Monday .
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