Breaking News February 16 | Highlights

Dr. Kiran Bedi removed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry

Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, Governor of Telangana, given additional charge as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry

The Odisha government has relaxed the land ceiling limit, allowing companies to purchase 100 acres of private land in urban areas for setting up industries.

According to the notification issued by the Revenue and Disaster Management (R&DM) Department on Monday, after negotiation with land owners, private players can now purchase land up to 500 acres against the earlier cap of 200 acres of dry land or equivalent areas of irrigated land or wetland in rural areas.

The Haryana government will bring patients of the state suffering from cancer, HIV and serious kidney ailments under the ambit of its social security pension scheme.

Haryana's Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Om Prakash Yadav, on Tuesday said that on the lines of the old age pension, the state's cancer, kidney and HIV patients will be given a pension of Rs 2,250 per month. He said that about 25,000 beneficiaries suffering from cancer, serious kidney ailments and HIV will get the benefit.

The Karnataka government on Tuesday made it mandatory for passengers arriving from South Africa and Brazil to the state to undergo RT-PCR tests and 14 days quarantine in view of two more variants of COVID-19 being identified in these countries.

The initial public offer of telecom infrastructure provider RailTel Corporation of India was subscribed 2.64 times on the first day of subscription on Tuesday.

Bangladesh Navy ship Prottoy, commanded by Captain Ahamed Amin Abdullah, visited Mumbai for two days on Sunday and Monday.

The ship had a crew of 137 personnel and was docked at the Mumbai Port Trust for these two days, the Indian Navy said in a statement.

IndiGo on Tuesday said it will start flights connecting Durgapur in West Bengal with three cities across the country from April 22 onwards. It has signed an agreement with Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited (BAPL) to provide local marketing support to the airline "through their expertise" in Durgapur.

"The airline will operate its first direct flights from Delhi, Bengaluru, and a southern city to Durgapur from April 22, 2021, with bookings opening from February 13, 2021," IndiGo's press release said.

Durgapur will be 66th domestic destination of IndiGo, the press release noted. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi approves an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakhs each from Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for the next of kin of those who have lost their lives due to the bus accident in Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh. Rs 50,000 would be given to those seriously injured.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat met actor Mithun Chakraborty at the latter's residence in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Visuals from outside his residence.

Supreme Court directs AIIMS Gorakhpur to conduct the examinations for 11 first-year students whose attendance was low due to COVID-19.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launches the e-Chhawani portal in Delhi. CDS Gen Bipin Rawat is also present at the event. The portal aims to provide online municipal services to more than 20 lakh citizens across 62 Cantonment Boards through a multi-tenancy central platform.

Singh said, "Residents of Cantonment areas can register their complaints regarding civic issues and resolve them while sitting at home. Our government is committed to refine the system and improve the Ease of Living for people."

A small and low-intensity IED, kept by terrorists in a tipper vehicle, exploded at Pazalpora, Bijbehara in Jammu and Kashmir. No injuries reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Maharaja Suheldev Memorial and development work of Chittaura Lake in Uttar Pradesh, via video conferencing. UP CM Yogi Adityanath is also present at the event. Here are some pointers from his address:

• This Basant has come with new hopes and new enthusiasm for India that is moving forward, leaving behind the despair of the pandemic.
• The history of India is not just what was written by those who enslaved this country and those with a slave mentality. India's history is that too which the common people of India have kept in the folk stories of India, that which has been carried forward by generations.
• Today when India is entering the 75th year of independence, there can be no bigger an occasion to remember and take inspiration from the contribution of such great men (Maharaja Suheldev), their sacrifice, struggle, valour and martyrdom.
• It's a misfortune that those who dedicated their lives to protect India were not given their due position - the position they deserved. The injustice and manipulation done to those who created history, by those who wrote history is being corrected by today's India.

6 people injured in a fight between neighbours over the falling of a motorcycle in Delhi's Jahangirpuri area last night. A police investigation is underway.

All angles related to the Chamoli glacier burst should be investigated. We will form a department so that we can monitor and study all the glaciers through satellite, said Uttarakhand Irrigation Minister Satpal Maharaj.