Delhi's air quality on Friday continued to deteriorate to its worst level 'Severe category', according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). It said that Air Quality Index is at 422 in Anand Vihar, 407 in RK Puram, 421 in Sector 8 of Dwarka, and 430 in Bawana. At ITO, the board said that AQI was at 448. All are in the 'Severe category'.
The Tamil Nadu government is taking steps to ban online games involving money, Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said on Thursday. Talking to reporters in Coimbatore, Palaniswami said taking into account that many persons have committed suicide due to online rummy, the government is taking steps to ban the online games played with money stakes.
At least one unidentified terrorist was killed during an ongoing encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. The gunfight, which began Thursday evening was reported from Lalpora area of Pampore. According to the details, the joint police team of Awantipora and Pulwama had received inputs about terrorists firing upon two individuals in Tral Awantipora and Wanpora Pulwama. 
The coronavirus pandemic is the most catastrophic event after the Second World War, it was inevitable that the people were going to experience a different world in the post-pandemic era, said Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla on Thursday. Shringla's statement came while he was speaking on the topic 'Leveraging Strategic Autonomy in a Turbulent World; at the Diamond Jubilee Seminar of the National Defence College, Shringla. 
The Supreme Court on Thursday said that an offence under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is not made out on the fact that the complainant is a member of SC or ST. A bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi said: "All insults or intimidations to a person will not be an offence under the Act unless such insult or intimidation is on account of victim belonging to Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe."
An on-duty traffic police personnel was dragged on the bonnet of a car in Pune after he attempted to stop the vehicle. The incident was reported from Pimpri-Chinchwad, where the policeman tried to stop the car after he spotted those inside the vehicle without masks. The driver of the car was later arrested as he tried to evade a fine for not wearing a mask.
Unruly scenes were witnessed in the Haryana Assembly on Thursday over the duration of the session and the farm laws enacted by the Centre with the opposition Congress staging a walkout from the House. During the first day of the second part of the monsoon session, the Congress objected to the two-day duration of the session. After the report of the Business Advisory Committee was tabled in the House, senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda rose from his seat and asked the Speaker why the duration of the session has been kept for just two days.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
