🔴 Bengal's positivity rate stands at 6.15 per cent. With 13,767 people being discharged in the past 24 hours, the total number of discharged now stands at 19,20,423.

🔴 Birbhum district president of the Trinamool Congress, Anubrata Mondal said, “He has lost his mind. A person with a sane mind cannot say such things. Everyone wants him ousted for the betterment of the institute.”

🔴 Questioning his intentions behind taking charge as the governor, the editorial referred to Dhankhar as a "former minister of the BJP", while claiming that "Amit Shah and other leaders gave him homework to disturb the government of Bengal."

🔴 According to local reports, coal brought illegally from Jharkhand was allegedly stored in the homes of some villagers from where they were smuggled to different states.

🔴 Dhankhar accused the Speaker of having "conducted himself in an unconstitutional manner" on several occasions, while also iterating that he was anguished over his address to the Assembly being "blacked out from live coverage" on two instances.

🔴 The BEOS profiling, also known as brain fingerprinting, is a neuro-psychological method of interrogation in which the suspect's participation in a crime is investigated by studying his brain’s electrical activity as a response to the accused being shown a video clip or sound clips among others.

🔴 The Omicron variant has shown high transmissibility and capability of evading the immune response generated by natural infection and vaccination.

🔴 Officials expect 25 per cent drop in production due to winter rain. Under the open general license, around 6.5 lakh tonnes of tur has arrived in the country.

🔴 Grown mostly in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat, pomegranate has emerged as a major export crop for drought-prone areas of the state.

🔴 Dr Tambe received the honour posthumously on Republic Day eve, for his work in the medical domain. His son, Sanjay Tambe, said that the family was excited when they heard the news but a part of them missed their father and wished it had happened when he was around.

🔴 His path-breaking work on deaths caused by the sting of the red scorpion was published in the 1980s in the Lancet journal and led to a deep interest in scorpion stings and snakebites.

🔴 Till a few days ago, the Congress leaders were talking about fighting the 2022 election under collective leadership, even as CM Charanjit Singh Channi and PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu had started making overt demands that the CM candidate should be declared.

🔴 Dera chief, sources said, has been challaned for conspiring in the case as SIT noted in the challan that the conspiracy was hatched in room number four of the administrative complex of Dera’s headquarters in Sirsa, and Dera chief knew about it being head of the sect.

🔴 The cheating took place in December last year.

🔴 At around 3 am on Friday India time, the High Commission in Ottawa issued a statement identifying the four as Jagdish Patel, 39, his wife Vaishali (37), their daughter Vihangi (11), and son Dharmik (3).

🔴 According to the police, the incident happened in Tarapur village. The victim has been identified as Soma, a farmer.

🔴 "During the inspection, Gupta also expressed his displeasure over certain files of the companies being missing," a press statement read.

🔴 Every writing and publishing activity leads to the release of greenhouse gases, and the major contributor is carbon dioxide and methane. According to Singh, this idea came from a conversation with a friend from the organisation, Sustain to Survive.

🔴 Dharam Pal stated that with the target of making Chandigarh the most liveable and healthy city, constant endeavours have been made to improve health and infrastructure in the city.

🔴 After the march past by various contingents of Police/Fire/NSS/NCC during the Republic Day Parade, a vibrant parade comprising tableaux from different departments emphasising on social messages and development followed.

🔴 'I am a first-time contestant with a clean image, accessibility and no anti-incumbency factor. I have been working in the area since past 31 years and I am aware of each and every area.'

🔴 In Kharar the competition was between lawyer Natrajan Kaushal and Vijay Sharma Tinku but the party chose the latter. Both are considered close to Channi.

🔴 Sohana had declared his immovable assets worth Rs. 6.53 crore. Parvinder Sohana’s wife Harjinder Kaur Sohana, who filed the nomination papers as a covering candidate, declared her movable and immovable assets worth Rs. 1.14 crore.

🔴 An approval by the EAC is a must for the project to go ahead. The panel is expected meet on Friday to discuss the steel plant