LIVE: Members of Mulayam Yadav's family to cast votes at booth no 239 in UP's Saifai tomorrow

All members of Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav's family will cast their votes at booth number 239 in Saifai tomorrow for the ongoing Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, reported ANI.

As many as six people allegedly died and several injured in a collision between a passenger bus and a car near Nuaon on NH-84 in Bihar, reported ANI. The injured were sent to a nearby hospital.

Maharashtra on Saturday reported yet another dip in fresh Covid-19 cases after 1,635 people were found positive with the virus. Mumbai too reported a drop with 201 infections.

Germany has asked its citizens to leave Ukraine ‘urgently’, AFP reported citing an official. This comes amid the Russia-Ukraine tensions.

Delhi on Saturday reported a slight rise in daily Covid caseload after 635 infections were confirmed, up from 607 on Friday. The city logged two deaths, and the case positivity rate further dropped to 1.13%, according to the health bulletin data.

Bharat Biotech said on Saturday in a statement that Covaxin will be evaluated as a Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the United States. It added that US-based biopharma firm Ocugen is co-developing Covaxin as vaccine candidate for the nation.

Ex-AAP leader Kumar Vishwas gets Y-category security cover amid row over his 'separatist' allegation against Arvind Kejriwal, reports ANI.

Russia launches hypersonic missiles as part of nuclear drills amid Ukraine tensions. In a statement, Kremlin said that the annual exercises featured launches of Kinzhal and Tsirkon hypersonic missiles and a number of other weapons. The country hit sea and land-based targets as part of the strategic nuclear exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar says he finds it “surprising” that the Jharkhand government has rolled back Bhojpuri and Magahi as the regional languages of Bokaro and Dhanbad districts. “Bhojpuri is spoken in UP too. Bihar-Jharkhand was one. It (language) is for all. I find this surprising. If someone is doing this, I don't think it is being done in the state's interest. I don't know why is this being done,” he told ANI.

The BCCI on Saturday announced the squad for Test and T20I series against Sri Lanka. Rohit Sharma has been named as India's new Test captain, while Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane have been dropped.

Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Saturday that “it's good” that the BJP regime in Uttar Pradesh is providing the citizens of the state with ration, but they should “make people stand on their feet, with education and employment”. “We want to bring a law that will suspend officials who don't file an FIR within 15 days of harassment complaint by a woman,” she added at a public rally in Rae Bareli.

Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana and Judges of Supreme Court along with their family members visited Mughal Gardens in Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi earlier in the day at the invitation of President Ramnath Kovind and the First Lady Savita Kovind.

Multiple explosions could heard on Saturday morning in eastern Ukraine's separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Reuters reported citing a witness. The origin of the explosions was not clear, the report added.

A Muslim woman in hijab was hassled by a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while entering a polling booth during the local body elections in Tamil Nadu on Saturday. She later managed to exercise her franchise after police and members of other political parties intervened. Read more

An intruder has been caught by airport police at Mumbai. He jumped off the perimeter wall and started to run towards the runway when the CISF personnel on duty caught him. Mumbai officials say that he was caught within seconds after he jumped from the Kurla side of the runway. The man has been handed over to the airport police for investigation.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police has recovered a bike, which was stolen in 2020, parked in the parking lot of Dilshad Garden metro station, which, they suspect, was used to take the IED recovered at Ghazipur flower market last month, reported ANI.

Police have registered an FIR against at least 10 girls for violating prohibitory orders issued under Section 144 of CrPC by staging a protest against the hijab rule outside Girls Empress Govt PU College in Tumkur, Karnataka, on February 17, under Sections 143, 145, 188 and 149 of IPC.

The fire in the empty carriages of Swatantra Senani Superfast Express train at Madhubani railway station was doused at 9:50am, news agency ANI reported quoting East Central Railway CPRO. There were no casualties in the incident, the railways said.

India registered a further decline in daily infections with 22,270 new cases and 325 deaths in last 24 hours. Active cases stood at 2,53,739, accounting for 0.59 per cent of the total infections.

President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Odisha and Andhra Pradesh from February 19 to February 22. He is expected to be in Puri, Odisha today.