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Breaking News LIVE: Earthquake In Bihar; Mild Tremors Felt In Patna

Welcome to the ABP News LIVE for February 15, 2021: 3.5-Magnitude earthquake tremors were felt in Bihar. Disha Ravi's arrest in the Greta Thunberg Toolkit case has sparked a political outrage and many opposition leaders have come out in support. Students in Bengaluru will hold protests seeking her release. The automatic toll plaza payment system FASTag has become mandatory from today, and those who don't install FASTag in their vehicles or have a tag that does not work will have to pay twice the fee for the category of the vehicle they are driving. Maharashtra recorded 4,092 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, which took the state's infection tally to 20,64,278, while 40 deaths pushed the count to 51,529. A week after the glacier burst in Uttarakhand triggered massive flash floods 51 bodies have been recovered from the Tapovan tunnel and only 24 have been identified.

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Breaking News LIVE: Earthquake In Bihar; Mild Tremors Felt In Patna

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Welcome to the ABP News LIVE Blog, Monday, 15th February 2021:  Delhi Police arrested 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi from Bengaluru in relation to the Greta Thunberg 'toolkit' case and revealed that Disha Ravi is an Editor of the Toolkit Google Doc and a key conspirator in document's formulation and dissemination. Students in Bengaluru will hold protests in support of Disha Ravi and many opposition leaders have come out in support of her. 

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said the deadline for implementation of FASTag would not be extended further, adding the vehicle owners should immediately adopt the e-payment facility. Gadkari’s remarks came as the government announced all lanes in the fee plazas on National Highways shall be declared as “FASTag lane of the fee plaza” with effect from Monday midnight.

The national capital saw a price hike in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) domestic cylinder on Sunday (February 14). The price of LPG cylinder was raised by Rs. 50 per unit. This is the third such incident of price hike since December 2020.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate 'Abhyudaya' scheme today (February 15) and interact with registered candidates under the scheme, said an official release.

The programme of the free coaching centre for competitive examinations --IAS, IPS, PCS, NDS, CDS, NEET and JEE will be held at 10 am Monday, the statement said on Sunday.

An Indian Private satellite will be launched to space by the end of February will carry a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a copy of the Bhagwad Gita, and names of 25,000 citizens.  The Satish Dhawan Satellite, or SD SAT, will be launched by the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV).

 Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are expecting an addition to their family. Meghan is pregnant with her second child, a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed to CNN on Sunday.

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh in  live session with Rohit Sharma, the cricketer made a ‘casteist remark’ against spinner Yuzvendra Chahal in 2020. The word uttered by Yuvraj were deemed disrespectful towards the Dalit community. He later issued an apology for the same.

But now, after eight months, Yuvraj has been slapped with an FIR by the Haryana police. An advocate from Haryana’s Hisar registered a complaint against the cricketer.

22:31 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Bihar Earthquake: Tejashwi Yadav wishes for safety of people

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav in a tweet wished for everyone's safety and requested everyone to take precautions and go to safe open places if needed.

22:30 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Earthquake in Bihar

22:27 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Bihar Earthquake

When people felt the tremors, they came out of their homes. As of now, no loss of life and property has not been reported from anywhere. The epicenter of the earthquake is being reported around Patna.

22:20 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Earthquake in Patna

Earthquake of reportedly 3.5 magnitude hits Bihar. Mild tremors were felt in the state capital Patna. It is being reoprted that the quake was registered 20km North West of Nalanda.

 

19:42 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

People Above 50 To Get Coronavirus Vaccine In March: Union Health Minister

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday announced that the government will administer vaccines to those above 50 years of age in March. The Health Minister also informed that no new cases of dreaded Coronavirus have been reported in 188 districts of the country, in last 7 days.

16:28 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Woman Named Puneet helped Nikita Jacob

16:27 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Nikita Along with Disha and Shantanu Created the Doc

A team reached Mumbai and conducted searches at her (Nikita Jacob) residence on 11th Feb. She and her associates Shantanu & Disha had created the doc. The email account created by Shantanu is the owner of this doc & all others are its editors: Prem Nath, Jt CP Cyber Cell

15:55 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Warrant Against Nikita Jacob was issued after collecting evidence

Many screenshots of the toolkit were available on open source & were investigated. When probe was able to fetch enough information, a search warrant was obtained from Court on 9th Feb, against Nikita Jacob, one of the editors of the toolkit google doc: Prem Nath, Jt CP Cyber Cell

15:07 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

CM Uddhav announced Rs 2 Lakh ex-gratia in Jalgaon accident

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announces ex gratia of Rs 2 lakhs each to the kin of 15 persons who died in Jalgaon accident earlier today: State CMO

13:40 PM (IST)  •  15 Feb 2021

Vijay Rupani Tests Covid Positive

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