Highlights: Karnataka BJP MP meets with kin of Indian student who died in Ukraine

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla attended the Mahashivratri celebration in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday.

A special court has granted permission to the CBI to record the statement of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with its investigation into the ₹100 crore alleged extortion case, ANI reported.

Delhi reports 344 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the cumulative case count of the national capital to 18,60,236. Four new fatalities were also reported on Tuesday.

Maharashtra reports 675 new Covid-19 cases, and five deaths on Tuesday. Mumbai's daily toll reported at 77 with zero fatalities. The total Covid-19 case count of the western state reaches 7,866,380, according to health bulletin data.

BJP MP from Karnataka's Haveri Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi met with the kin of Naveen Shekharappa, the Indian MBBS student, who died in shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv this morning.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has denied the request of NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik's son Faraz Malik's lawyer's request to give his client a week's time to submit documents to the investigative agency related to the Dawood Ibrahim money laundering case, ANI reported.

The administrator of a Facebook page 'Mangalore Muslims' and another person have been booked for derogatory remarks against Karnataka high court judge hearing the hijab case, ANI reported on Tuesday.

₹1,33,026 crores gross GST revenue collected for February. “The revenues for the month of February 2022 are 18% higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year and 26% higher than the GST revenues in February 2020,” news agency said quoting Ministry of Finance.

The Karnataka Congress' padayatra, which demands implementation of the Mekedatu project across the Cauvery river, has now entered the state capital Bengaluru. State party unit president D K Shivakumar apologised to Bengaluru's residents as the padayatra will create traffic jams in parts of city till March 3 (Thursday). 

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted the Union government over the hike in price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). Taking to Twitter, Gandhi said that after LPG, the price of petrol and diesel will increase tomorrow.

Former Turkish Airlines boss Ilker Ayci on Tuesday declined to take over as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Air India two weeks after appoinment. 

The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has won 743 of the 829 Zila Parishad seats in the ongoing Odisha panchayat elections, the State Election Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday. Of the total 852 Zilla Parishad seats, the commission has completed the counting of votes in 829 seats, while that in the remaining seats is underway. 

President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday inaugurated the ‘Arogya Vanam’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

The Indian Embassy in Ukraine told all Indian nationals to leave the capital city of Kyiv urgently on Tuesday. 

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's son Zain died at the age of 26 on Monday morning. The software maker told its executive staff in an email that Zain, who was born with cerebral palsy, passed away. 

Thane district added 20 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which pushed the caseload to 7,08,302. No fresh deaths were seen and the toll remain unchanged at 11,875.

The country's total vaccinations against Covid-19 have exceeded 177.70 crore after 18,22,513 doses were administered in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday. 

A mild tremor of 3.4 magnitude was recorded in Gujarat's Kutch district on Tuesday morning, officials told news agency PTI. There were no reports of death or damage to property, they added. 

Maharashtra minister and senior NCP leader Nawab Malik has approached the Bombay High Court, seeking to quash the money laundering case registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). 

A delegation of former top defence officials of the United States will visit Taiwan amid the threat from China, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen is leading the delegation which will meet Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. 

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday summoned Maharashtra minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik's son Faizal in money laundering case. 

India on Tuesday saw a sharp decline in its daily Covid-19 tally after 6,915 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, pushing the caseload to 4,29,31,045, according to the Union health ministry's dashboard. The active cases have gone below the 1 lakh mark and stand at 92,472. 

Mizroram on Tuesday added 1,325 new Covid-19 cases which pushed the caseload to 2,14,653, according to the health department's bulletin. Till now, 657 patients have succumbed to the viral disease in the state.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will campaign in Manipur on Tuesday, a day after the first phase of the election concluded in 38 assembly constituencies.