India recorded 11,903 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 311 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday, the country saw a total of 14,159 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate at around 98.21 per cent which is the highest since March 2020 and total recoveries data reached 3,36,97,740.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached New Delhi after concluding his five-day foreign visit to Italy and the UK on Wednesday where he enhanced India's self-declared renewable energy commitments at COP26 in Glasgow and outlined India's position on global issues at G20 Summit. 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be conducting a review meeting virtually with districts having low COVID-19 vaccination coverage on Wednesday. As per the Prime Minister’s Office, PM Modi will interact with District Magistrates of over 40 districts in Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, and other states with districts having low vaccination coverage.
Northwest India received 67 mm rainfall in the month of October against the normal of 23 mm, a massive 191.2 per cent departure against long period average (LPA), including 160 instances of very heavy rainfall and 36 of extremely heavy rainfall. Comparing the last five years, the frequency of extremely heavy rainfall has been maximum in 2021 for September and October, India Meteorological Department (IMD) data showed.
Delhi Police seized illegal firecrackers weighing around 879 kilograms from a man in the Sadar Bazaar area of Delhi on Tuesday in a joint raid with the district administration.
An earthquake of 3.6 magnitude hit Gulmarg in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday morning. The National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed that the earthquake occured at a depth of 10 kilometres and 227 kilometres north of Gulmarg. 
The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav called upon the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) to work closely to protect the interests of developing countries on Tuesday, and urged that climate finance cannot continue at the levels decided in 2009 and should be increased to at least 1 trillion dollars to meet the goals of addressing climate change.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...
