India logged 27,409 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, 19.7 per cent lower than yesterday, according to data shared by the Union Health Ministry. This brings the country’s cumulative caseload to 4,26,92,943. As many as 347 deaths were reported in the country in the last 24 hours, increasing the total fatality count to 5,09,358. India’s recovery rate now stands at 97.82 per cent. In the last 24 hours, the active cases declined by 55,755 bringing the total active caseload at 4,23,127.
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- Canada PM Trudeau invokes emergency powers to tackle truckers protests
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Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi likely to meet at 4 pm today
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South Korean Covid deaths rise, hope rests on high booster rate
- South Korea reported its highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a month Tuesday as US health authorities advised Americans to avoid traveling to the country grappling with a fast-developing omicron surge. The 61 deaths reported by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Tuesday was the highest daily tally since the 74 reported on Jan. 19, when the country was emerging from an outbreak driven by the delta variant.
Switzerland’s Corinne Suter wins women’s Olympic downhill
- World champion Corinne Suter confirmed Switzerland’s alpine skiing dominance at the Beijing Games on Tuesday when she streaked to victory in the women’s Olympic downhill for the country’s fourth gold.
- The 27-year-old racer clocked 1min 31.87sec down the “Rock” course in Yanqing, finishing 0.16sec ahead of defending champion Sofia Goggia of Italy, whose silver capped a remarkable return to form after she injured her knee in a crash last month.
Vaccination certificate not required to visit Puri Jagannath Temple from Feb 21
- Keeping in view the declining trend of Covid-19 infections across the country, the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has decided that from February 21 devotees will not be required to carry double-dose vaccination certificate to enter the 12th shrine, a top official of the SJTA said.
Money laundering case | ED officials visit the residence of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar in Mumbai
UP Polls | Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Omprakash Rajbhar says he was attacked during filing of nomination of party candidate Arvind Rajbhar from Varanasi’s Shivpur constituency yesterday
- “Yogi Ji wants to get me killed. Goons of BJP & Yogi were sent there in black coats,” he says
Covid-19: The active cases comprise 0.99 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has further improved to 97.82 per cent, says Health ministry
- India’s cumulative Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeds 173.42 crore
Five people including four policemen died when a vehicle of Gujarat Police carrying an accused from Delhi to Gujarat met with an accident in Bhabroo area of Jaipur, tweets Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot
दिल्ली से गुजरात अभियुक्त लेकर जा रही गुजरात पुलिस का वाहन जयपुर के भाबरू क्षेत्र में दुर्घटनाग्रस्त होने से 4 पुलि… https://t.co/2baMDXGyhK
— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) 1644896547000
Markets Update
- Indian markets open in green: Sensex up by 460 points at 56,866, Nifty jumps 136 points to 16,980
Enforcement Directorate is carrying out searches at several places linked to the people associated with the underworld, in Mumbai in a money laundering case: Sources
Enforcement Directorate (ED) is carrying out searches at several places linked to the people associated with the un… https://t.co/Wl9MoazgO4
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Omicron found in 95% of samples in Mumbai in latest genome sequencing
- Omicron variant had triggered the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in late December 2021 and it now ebbed in the Maharashtra state capital.
- Mumbai reported 192 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the lowest daily count since December 13,
India’s daily covid-19 cases rise by 27,409, reach total of 42.6 million
Daily covid-19 death cases rise by 347, death toll reaches 509,358
Primary, upper primary schools to reopen in West Bengal from tomorrow
However, the night curfew will remain in force from midnight to 5 am till February 28, as per an order issued by the state government.
Security forces recover cache of arms, ammunition in J-K’s Poonch
A cache of arms and ammunition, including an AK-47 rifle and two pistols, was recovered near the LoC in Deri Dabsi village of Mendhar area in J&K’s Poonch district.
BSP candidate asks people to vote for BJP in audio clip
An audio clip of BSP candidate from Kundarki Assembly segment and sitting MLA, Haji Rizwan, has gone viral in which he can be heard appealing to his supporters to cast their votes in favour of BJP “to prevent Samajwadi Party’s Zia-ur Rahman, the grandson of Sambhal MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq, from winning the seat”.
US temporarily relocates its embassy in Ukraine
“We are in the process of temporarily relocating our Embassy operations in Ukraine from our Embassy in Kyiv to Lviv due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said
Canada’s Trudeau invokes emergency powers to quell protests
- Trudeau says he has invoked emergency powers to try to quell the protests by truck drivers and others who have paralysed Ottawa and blocked border crossings.
- Trudeau ruled out using the military and said that the emergency measures “will be time-limited, geographically targeted.
- For the past two weeks, thousands of protesters in trucks and other vehicles have clogged the streets of Ottawa, the capital.
- Members of the self-styled Freedom Convoy have also blockaded various US-Canadian border crossings
Japan’s economy grew 1.3% in Q4, 1.7% in 2021
- Japan’s economy rebounded to grow 1.3 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to December
- The third-quarter growth for the world’s third-largest economy was slightly lower than market expectations of 1.5 percent
- The economy grew 1.7 percent in real terms in 2021, the first annual expansion for the economy in three years.
G20 finance ministers, central bank governors to meet in Jakarta
- High-profile topics to be discussed in the meeting would be inflation, policy normalization and digitalization to help G20 members recover their economy from the pandemic situation
- The high-level meetings are held amid increasing daily Covid-19 cases in Indonesia.
Kerala trans couple tie knot on Valentine’s Day
- Trans couple Syama S Prabha and Manu Karthika tied the knot in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
- The groom Manu, a native of Thrissur, is working in an IT firm in Techno Park and Thiruvananthapuram native Syama is employed at the transgender cell under the Kerala Social Justice Department.
- Syama and Manu, plan to approach the High Court to get their marriage registered under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
IAS officer Vineet Joshi appointed as new CBSE Chairman
- IAS Vineet Joshi, Additional Secretary, Department of Higher Education, has been appointed as new chairman of Central Board of Secondary Education
- Joshi has replaced IAS Manoj Ahuja.
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