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Welcome to the ABP News HIGHLIGHTS for Thursday, February 25, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated a slew of completed projects in Puducherry. Modi inaugurated a Blood Centre at state-run JIPMER, a Sports Authority of India (SAI) girls hostel at Lawspet & a reconstructed Heritage Mairie Building. After new clusters of Covid-19 cases were reported in Bengaluru, around 229 students and three staffers of a hostel in Maharasthra's Washim have been reported to be coronavirus positive on Thursday. The BJP today launched the 'Lokkho Sonar Bangla' crowdsourcing campaign' in Kolkata. Please refresh the page to find the important news alerts and latest updates from India and around the world.
On Day 2 of Ind vs Eng Pink-ball Test, England cricket team was reduced for 81 runs in their second innings. For India, spinner Akshar Patel took 5 wickets, also completing first-ever 10-wicket match haul in his career. Veteran R Ashwin picked 4 wickets, while Washington Sundar took just 1 wicket. Meanwhile, Ashwin today completed his 400 wickets in Test cricket.
In a major development, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government has decided to change all vehicles used by its department into electric vehicles in the span of next six months.
As per reports, all vehicles deployed in govt departments, municipal corporations and other institutions are to be converted. All petrol, diesel and CNG operated vehicles will be changed to electric vehicles.
The decision was made under Delhi government's electric vehicle policy.
England captain Joe Root's exceptional five-wicket haul bundled up India for just 145 on the second day of the Pink-ball Test at the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad. On Day 2, India lost their 7 wickets for just 46 runs and ultimately was reduced to 145 runs. Skipper Root was the pick of bowlers as he bagged the highest 5 wickets for England while Leach took 4 wickets.
In the first innings, India had ended the first day's play after scoring 99 runs for 3 wickets and had a lead of 33 runs in the first innings. For India, Rohit Sharma batted handsomely and made 66 runs.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that there have been many complaints asking the government to regulate the content of social media and the new guidelines will empower the ordinary users to register the grievances against the use, misuse, and abuse of content.
Puducherry deserves a government whose high command is the people of Puducherry not a small group of Congress leaders sitting in Delhi. NDA assures Puducherry - the next government will be a people-powered government. In 2016, Puducherry didn't get a people's govt. They got a govt that was busy serving the Congress high command in Delhi, their priorities were different. Your former CM was an expert in lifting the slippers of his top party leaders", PM Modi in Puducherry.
Famous Siddhivinayak temple stops offline darshan for devotees on the coming Angaraki Chaturthi. Only those devotees who have registered online have QR code will be allowed. This comes amid rising covid cases.
BJP has been denied to conduct Parivartan Yatra from Barrackpore. According to reports, the West Bengal police have denied permission to the saffron party to conduct any such rallies today.
Australia's parliament passed landmark legislation Thursday requiring global digital giants to pay for local news content, in a move closely watched around the world.
The law passed easily after a last-gasp deal that watered-down binding rules Facebook and Google had fiercely opposed in return for the tech giants agreeing to pay local media companies.
The disengagement of armies of India and China from north and south banks of Pangong Tso is a "very good end result" and a win-win situation for both sides, Army chief General MM Naravane said on Wednesday but stressed that there is a long way to go and the next steps towards it are de-escalation and de-induction of troops.
Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, who is lodged in a London prison as he contests his extradition to India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated Rs 14-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, will find out the UK court’s ruling in the nearly two-year-long legal battle today.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday lifted a freeze on green cards issued by his predecessor during the pandemic that lawyers said was blocking most legal immigration to the United States.
Former President Donald Trump last spring halted the issuance of green cards until the end of 2020 in the name of protecting the coronavirus-wracked job market a reason that Trump gave to achieve many of the cuts to legal immigration that had eluded him before the pandemic.
PM to inaugurate & lay the foundation stone of several projects in Tamil Nadu & Puducherry today. Under PM Awas Yojana (Urban) tenements at Veerapandi & Thirukumaran Nagar in Tiruppur, Rajakkur Phase-II in Madurai & Irungalur in Trichy to be inaugurated", Housing&Urban Affairs Ministry
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Welcome to the ABP News HIGHLIGHTS for Thursday, February 25, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Tamil Nadu and Puducherry today to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development initiatives. According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for 4 laning of NH45-A - 56 km Sattanathapuram - Nagapattinam package of Villupuram to Nagapattinam project covering Karaikal district in Puducherry at around 11:30 AM.
Home Minister Amit Shah will visit poll-bound state Assam today. Amit Shah will attend two religious events and address public gatherings in Nagaon and Karbi Anglong districts. As per reports, the Union Home Minister will address a public meeting at Batadrava.
Nirav Modi's extradition verdict to be out today, he will know whether he'll be deported back to India where he is wanted for fraud and money laundering in the ₹ 14,000-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam. Since his arrest, the fugitive diamond merchant has made six attempts to get bail, of which all got denied. Modi even approached the High Court but was denied bail again and was deemed a flight risk, his extradition case began in March 2019.
The highest in 129 days, a total of 8,807 fresh Covid-19 cases were added to Maharashtra’s daily tally on Wednesday. The state reported 80 deaths, the highest in two months since December 24, when 89 deaths were reported.
With this, the total cases in the state jumped to 21,21,119 and the toll touched 51,937.
People have got great relief today as the petrol prices have not increased for two consecutive days. On Thursday, Petrol is available at a price of Rs. 90.93 paisa per litre in the National Capital Delhi while the price of Diesel is Rs. 81.32 paisa per litre.
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