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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will deliver her fourth budget speech after she tables the Union Budget in Parliament. This year's Union Budget comes at a time when the country is battling a third wave of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), and all citizens of the country will look forward to the same.
The Budget session began on January 31 with President Ram Nath Kovind addressing both Houses of Parliament. Following that, Sitharaman tabled the economic survey. Presented every year prior to the Budget session, the survey focuses on the economy of the country in the last year, the primary challenges it is likely to face, and their probable solutions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India is fighting the new wave of COVID with "great success" and asserted that the people's trust on indigenous vaccines was "our strength".
In his monthly 'Mann Ki Baat' radio broadcast, Modi said, "Now the cases of corona infection have also started decreasing, this is a very positive sign."
It is a matter of pride that till now about four-and-a-half crore children have been administered the first dose of coronavirus vaccine, he said.
"This means that about 60 per cent of youth in the age group of 15 to 18 years have got their vaccines within three to four weeks. This will not only protect our youth but will also help them to continue with their studies," he said.
Another good thing is that within 20 days, one crore people have taken the precaution dose as well, Modi said.
The national capital Delhi on Sunday logged 3,674 cases with a positivity rate of 6.37 per cent and 30 additional fatalities, according to data released by the city's health department.
The number of cases in the national capital has risen to 18,27,489, with a death toll of 25,827.
After reaching a new high of 28,867 on January 13, the number of daily cases in Delhi has started declining. On January 14, the city reported a positive rate of 30.6 per cent, the highest during the pandemic's current wave.
It only took ten days for daily instances to fall below 10,000.
Meanwhile, Mumbai recorded 1,160 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 10,45,630, with the death of 10 such patients bringing the total to 16,612, according to the civic authority.
During the day after recovery, a total of 2,530 patients were discharged. The health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation stated in a statement that 10,15,451 individuals had recovered from the virus in the city so far.
In the city, there are 10,797 current COVID-19 cases.
On Sunday, 46,307 tests were done, bringing the total number of tests to 1,52,43,823.
One hundred and nine of the 1,160 new cases are asymptomatic, while 160 require hospitalisation. 29 of them are on life support. Only 2,268 of the 37,573 beds are occupied. The case doubling rate in Mumbai is 375 days, and the recovery rate is 97 per cent.
IS Chahal, Mumbai's civic commissioner, said the city's positivity rate had dropped to 2.5 per cent.
Notably, Kerala continued to report over 50,000 daily COVID cases with the state logging 51,570 fresh infections taking the tally to 59,83,515 on Sunday.
The southern state also reported 14 COVID-related fatalities over the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 53,666, according to the state health bulletin.
Among the districts, Ernakulam topped the COVID chart with 9,704 cases, followed by Thrissur with 7,289 and Thiruvananthapuram with 5,746 cases.
"Currently, there are 3,54,595 active COVID-19 cases in the state out of which only 3.4 per cent are admitted to hospitals," the health department said in a release, as quoted by news agency PTI.
Meanwhile, 32,701 patients recuperated from the disease on Sunday taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 55,74,535.
Maha COVID-19 cases dip to 14,372, but deaths jump to 94; active tally below 2 lakh
Mumbai, Feb 1 (PTI) Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 14,372 new COVID-19 cases, down from 15,410 the previous day, but deaths linked to the infection rose sharply to 94 from 39 the day ago, the state health department said.
With this, the state's COVID-19 caseload reached 77,35,481, while the death toll increased to 1,42,705, the department said in a bulletin.
On Monday, the state had reported 15,410 cases on the back of 1,26,761 coronavirus tests and 39 fatalities.
No new case of the highly contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus was reported in the state and its tally remained unchanged at 3,221, the health department added.
Mumbai reported 803 cases and seven fatalities, while Pune city recorded 2,091 new patients and one fatality. Of the eight administrative circles (each consisting of multiple districts), Pune reported 4,710 cases, Nashik (2,960), Nagpur (2,230), Mumbai (1,961), Aurangabad (823), Kolhapur (628), Akola (571) and the Latur circle (489), the bulletin said.
The Mumbai circle recorded 31 fatalities, Pune (12), Nagpur (11), Nashik (eight), Kolhapur, Akola and Latur (ten each) and the Aurangabad circle (two), the department said.
It said 30,093 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recovered cases to 73,97,352.
With this, the tally of active cases dropped below the 2-lakh mark to stand at 1,91,524 in the state, where the coronavirus recovery rate is 95.63 per cent.
The department said 1,52,942 coronavirus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count in Maharashtra to 7,47,82,391.
The bulletin added that currently 10,69,596 people are in home isolation and another 2,731 in institutional quarantine.
Coronavirus figures of Maharashtra are as follows: Positive cases: 77,35,481, new cases: 14,372, death toll 1,42,705; active cases: 1,91,524; total tests: 7,47,82,391.
Andhra Pradesh extends night curfew till February 14
Andhra Pradesh extends the night curfew between 11pm to 5am till February 14, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, ANI reported.
TMC organisational election on Wednesday, Mamata Banerjee to be re-elected chairperson
Kolkata, Feb 1 (PTI) Trinamool Congress will hold its organisational election on Wednesday after a gap of five years and Mamata Banerjee, who is the party's founding chairperson, will be re-elected to the post, party sources said.
After the election Banerjee will spell out the road map of the party regarding its expanding footprint nationally, they said.
The TMC organisational poll will be held amid the simmering differences between its generation next leaders and a section of old guards, which forced Banerjee to instruct all its MPs and leaders not to embarrass the party by airing their views and differences in public.
According to party sources, Banerjee had told the TMC parliamentary party meeting, held virtually last week, that she will henceforth look after the party organisation despite her busy schedule.
"TMC will hold its organisational polls in Netaji Indoor Stadium in the city tomorrow. We have invited other political parties to come and witness the organisational polls, except the BJP," its secretary general Partha Chatterjee said on Tuesday.
The BJP state unit declined to attach much importance to it and said the party is "least bothered about getting an invitation for TMC's organisational polls".
A TMC leader said that after her election as TMC chairperson, Banerjee will be authorised to appoint the other office bearers of the party.
The details and modalities of the organisational election, including the issuing of the notification for it, were decided a few days ago. The list of voters and observers was compiled last week.
Born out of the womb of Congress in 1998, the TMC after two unsuccessful attempts in 2001 and 2006, came to power by defeating the 34-year-old Left Front regime in 2011 and riding the crest of massive public outrage against the communists.
It stormed to power for the third consecutive term in May last year after bagging 213 out of the 294 seats in the state assembly.
Congress releases list of star campaigners for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh election
Congress released the list of star campaigners for the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections to be held on February 14.
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 1, 2022
List of 30 leaders of Congress campaigners included the names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sachin Pilot. pic.twitter.com/PrjnG6E3Dg
Congress releases list of star campaigners for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh election
Congress released the list of star campaigners for the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections to be held on February 14.
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 1, 2022
List of 30 leaders of Congress campaigners included the names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sachin Pilot. pic.twitter.com/PrjnG6E3Dg
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