Breaking news: Twitter down, several users complain of outages

Social media platform Twitter has been down, with several users complaining of outages. In India, outage started at around 11.15pm but got fixed in some time. Downdetector tweeted at 10.43pm saying that several users are complaining of the outage. Its website currently shows that 2,018 outages were reported till 11pm on February 11.

Karnataka government extended holidays for degree and diploma colleges till February 16, reports ANI.

Canada's Ontario province declared  a state of emergency amid trucker protests due to which major border crossings with the US has been blocked, reports Reuters.

The Lok Sabha adjourned to resume its second part of the Budget Session on March 14 after a recess of one month.

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Under the country's Covid-19 vaccination drive, more than 172 crore doses have so far been administered. This included the over 42 lakh doses given till 7pm today. 

Delhi reported 977 new Covid-19 cases and 12 deaths in the last 24 hours as the national capital's total caseload reached 18,49,596 and the death toll reached 26,047.

Maharashtra Legislative Council chairperson Ramraje Nimbalkar said that the 12 BJP MLAs, who were previously suspended, have now been reinstated. 

“We have requested the President of India to refer the SC ruling to the constitutional bench for more clarity on the powers of state legislature,” he said. 

With 5,455 new Covid-19 cases and 63 deaths, Maharashtra's total caseload reached 78,35,088 and the death toll mounted to 1,43,355. 

Mumbai saw 367 new cases and one death. The city has so far reported 10,52,495 infections and 16,679 deaths.

Kerala reported 16,012 new Covid-1 cases and 27 deaths in last 24 hours, reports ANI. 

A few cops have been injured after militants attacked a police party with grenades in north Kashmir's Bandipore town. 

The Aam Aadmi Party's CM candidate in Punjab Bhagwant Mann reportedly sustained injury near his eye during a road show in Amritsar district after he was attacked by someone from the crowd with a tiny object. 

Tata Sons board renewed N Chandrasekaran's term as its executive director for the next five years, reports ANI. 

Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi's nephew Bhupinder S Honey sent to 14-day judicial custody in illegal sand mining case, reports ANI.

Navjot Singh Sidhu's daughter Rabia Kaur on Friday expressed her views on her father not being chosen as the Congress party's CM face in Punjab. 

Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal appealed to Goa's voters to vote for the AAP if they want an honest and development-oriented government in the state. 

The Supreme Court on Friday declined an urgent hearing to petition against Karnataka high court's interim order to ban hijab, other religious attire in schools and colleges in the state. 

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday that the Centre went in for a budget which would stand for continuity, which will be bringing in stability to the economy and predictability in taxation and also a vision for India at 100.

India continued a downward trend in its daily tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Friday after 58,077 fresh cases were added in the last 24 hours, taking the caseload to 42,536,137, according to the Union health ministry's dashboard. 

Defence minister Rajnath Singh will on Friday address rallies in Ghansali, Karnaprayag and Narendranagar assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand, which will go into elections on February 14. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday hold physical rallies in Uttarakhand's Almora and Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj. Phase-1 polling already concluding in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday while elections to all 70 assembly constituencies will take place on February 14. 

The Uttar Pradesh police has registered a case against the Congress party's door-to-door campaign in the state's Moradabad region for ongoing assembly elections. 

Moradabad Superintendent of Police (SP) Akhilesh Bhadoria told media on Thursday, “Congress candidate Rizwan had taken permission for a door-to-door campaign but it was seen that a roadshow-like situation had emerged with people atop of the car with him. As per Sector Magistrate's complaint, a case has been registered.”

United States President Joe Biden urged American citizens living in Ukraine to leave now as the threat of Russian invasion is looming, news agency AFP reported on Friday. 

External affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar will participate in the fourth Quad foreign ministers' meeting in Australia's Melbourne on Friday. 

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari has said that Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Sufiyan is responsible for the violence that broke out after the assembly elections in West Bengal last year.