Breaking News February 15 | | Highlights

The J&K Tourism Department has restarted online mode of registration of tourism units, officials said on Monday.

An earthquake hit Bihar capital Patna on Monday night. READ MORE

The number of healthcare and frontline workers vaccinated against the coronavirus in the country has surpassed 85 lakh, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.

A total of 85,16,771 beneficiaries have been vaccinated through 1,83,664 sessions, according to a provisional report till Monday 6 pm.

State-run power giant NTPC on Monday said it would pay a compensation of Rs 20 lakh each to the families of labourers who died in the recent flash flood at its Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project in Uttarakhand.

Resignation of Dinesh Trivedi from Rajya Sabha accepted by Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu. He resigned on Feb 12. 

The budget session of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly will take place from March 5-19, an official said on Monday. MLA Commissioner and Secretary Andrew Simons said Governor Satya Pal Malik will address the House on the first day of the session.

He said seven days have been allotted for transaction of government businesses and four days for private members' businesses. 

An earthquake measuring 4.1 magnitude on the Richter scale was felt in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday. READ MORE

Night curfew will be imposed in four metro cities of Gujarat from midnight to 6 am from 16th to 28th February: Pankaj Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary of State Home Department.

Puducherry Health Minister and Congress leader Malladi Krishna Rao resigns as Member of Legislative Assembly.

Volkswagen Passenger Cars India on Monday launched the turbo edition of its flagship models hatchback Polo and mid-sized sedan Vento priced at Rs 6.99 lakh and Rs 8.69 lakh, respectively.

We have got reply from Google on some of the questions regarding the Toolkit Doc: Delhi Police

Sensex closes at 52,154.13, all-time high; up by 609.83 points

Many screenshots of the toolkit were available on open source and were investigated. When probe was able to fetch enough information, a search warrant was obtained from Court on 9th Feb, against Nikita Jacob, one of the editors of the toolkit google doc: Prem Nath, Jt CP Cyber Cell

Toolkit case: Delhi Police addresses media

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announces ex gratia of Rs 2 lakhs each to the kin of 15 persons who died in Jalgaon accident earlier today. 

4 deaths in 3 days in Harpalpur's Paretha village, Madhya Pradesh, allegedly due to consumption of poisonous liquor. 3 admitted to district hospital are stable. "SP, DIG and district admin visited village. Further action to be based on probe", said Chhatarpur DC Sheelendra Singh.

Tamil Nadu reported 470 new COVID-19 cases, 479 recoveries, and 6 deaths today.

• Total cases: 8,45,120
• Total recoveries: 8,28,441
• Death toll: 12,419
• Active cases: 4,260

Manipur reported 13 new COVID-19 cases and 4 recoveries today. 

• Total cases: 29,196
• Total recoveries: 28,748
• Death toll: 373
• Active cases: 75

Karnataka reported 414 new COVID-19 cases, 486 discharges, and 2 deaths today.

• Total cases: 9,45,270
• Total discharges: 9,27,150
• Death toll: 12,265
• Active cases: 5,836

4,612 new COVID-19 cases reported in Kerala today. The active cases in the State at 63,484, as per State government.

9,36,398 people have recovered so far.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the first Gender Park in Kozhikode, earlier today.

Jharkhand reported 33 new COVID-19 cases and 24 recoveries in the last 24 hours, as per the State Health Department.

• Total cases: 1,19,316
• Recoveries: 1,17,773
• Death toll: 1,082
• Active cases: 461

India reported 11,649 new COVID-19 cases, 9,489 discharges, and 90 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry.

• Total cases: 1,09,16,589
• Total discharges: 1,06,21,220   
• Death toll: 1,55,732  
• Active cases: 1,39,637  
• Total Vaccination: 82,85,295

The death toll rises to 20 in a fire incident that took place in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar firecracker factory on February 12. PM Modi and CM Palaniswami announced ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh and Rs 3 lakh each respectively to the kin of the deceased. Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh each respectively for critically injured.

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar visits Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati. State Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also present with him. The External Affairs Minister will attend various programmes in the state today.

15 people died, two injured after a vehicle overturned near Kingaon village in Yawal taluka of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra last night. More details awaited.

Ambedkar Mahasabha Trust donated a silver brick to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra yesterday to use it for the construction of the Ram temple.

Mumbai's air quality improves to 'moderate' from the 'poor' category. The air quality in Delhi continues to remain in the 'very poor' category, as per the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research.