The failure of the Congress to provide a genuine alternative, to voice the distress and disenchantment, is a recurring complaint across Kumaon.

🔴 Acting on a tip-off, a team of anti-narcotics cell of the Crime Branch nabbed the two accused from near a bus stand in Sangamwadi on Tuesday.

🔴 “Salcete is an area where BJP has no chance of winning. So BJP has got Congress tickets for its candidates so that they can go to BJP after winning,” Kejriwal said.

🔴 Gifts in digital assets will also be taxed, she added. The tax proposals will come into effect from April 1 after the passage of the Union Budget in Parliament.

🔴 The state also logged 5,548 more Covid-19 recoveries. The number of people cured of the disease in the state has now gone up to 19,54,736, the bulletin said. The recovery rate among coronavirus patients in West Bengal now stands at 97.86 per cent.

🔴 The editorial claimed that appointing Dhankhar as the West Bengal governor was a ploy by the BJP-led central government to show the state administration in poor light.

🔴 Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented the Budget for the 2022-23 fiscal with an aim at boosting growth amid continued disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic and rising inflation.

🔴 The need of the hour was to make electric vehicle mobility accessible to the people and the way to do so was through e-bikes, which offer over 60 km of range in a single charge and address a range of concerns.

🔴 Zero budget farming focusses on shifting agriculture practices from mono-crops to diversified multi-cropping system.

🔴 Prashant Girbane, director general of Mahratta Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), welcomed the Budget and called it growth-oriented.

"The budget has touched upon two significant parts of the healthcare ecosystem that will deliver a long-term positive impact on the health and wellbeing of the people of our nation," Dr Ashwin Naik, co-founder, Mission ICU.

🔴 Budget focus on digital learning and more content in regional languages

An official from the Chandan nagar police station said the woman's son was unmarried. An acquaintance of the family introduced the woman to a self-proclaimed godman from Daund in October last year.

Currently, Pune district has the second highest vaccination percentage in the state while Mumbai has the highest. As per the revised order, parks, safaris and tourist spots will open across the state.

🔴 Nida is a victim of triple talaq — instant divorce practised by some Muslim men —  and runs an organisation in Bareilly that provides legal support to women who are divorced in this manner.

🔴 The medical certificate of cause of death states: “Patient (came) with severe breathlessness and fever. The report (showed) suspected case of Corona”. However, the family’s claim for Rs 50,000 ex-gratia was rejected on January 17.

🔴 Both the families are from the same community, according to the police. The SHO of the police station concerned said the victim’s son first eloped with the prime accused’s daughter in April 2020.

🔴 The Governor further said the situation in Bengal became such that the Calcutta High Court had to direct the National Human Rights Commission to form a fact-finding committee to probe into alleged human rights violations in post-poll violence last year.

🔴 In all three regions of Punjab — Majha, Doaba and Malwa — candidates of the party have been at each other’s throats and in some cases, levelling serious allegations against each other.

🔴 Gair Mumkin Khad is a low-lying area that often turn into passage for rain waters or flood waters, and Daryas and Nallahs are streams. The approval was accorded at a meeting of the Administrative Council chaired by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Jammu on Saturday.

🔴 Police said Maulana Javarawala provided a pistol and cartridges to Chopda and Pathan who shot dead Kishan Bharwad (27) in Dhandhuka on January 25.

🔴 The government says it will help decongest Kerala’s roads, provide a sustainable commuting option, and along the way, develop ecosystems that will enable infra-progress.

🔴 On Friday, the state reported 12,131 new cases of Covid-19, a marginally lower than Thursday's tally. However, deaths marked a surge as 30 patients succumbed to the infection across the state.

🔴 Civic body to name Ballygunge road after former mayor Subrata Mukherjee