 | Uddhav government says SOPs for COVID-19 care centres will be formed by March 31Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis said he had written four letters to chief minister on the rise in incidents of crime against women in COVID-19 care centres. |
 | Command and Control Centre in VisakhapatnamThe three-capital plan envisages executive capital in Visakhapatnam, legislative capital in Amaravati and judicial in Kurnool. |
 | Six-year-old in Karnataka hears for the first time on World Hearing DayThe young boy, who has been diagnosed with profound hearing loss since birth, was gifted with hearing aids with the efforts from Swastha Centre for Special Education and Rehabilitation, Suntikoppa. |
 | PayPal to hire over 1,000 engineers for India development centres in 2021PayPal will hire 1,000 engineers for the development centres in these three cities over the course of the year across software, product development and data science. |
 | COVID-19 vaccination: Non-empanelled private hospitals can give jabsThe states and Union territories were also urged not to store, preserve, conserve or create a buffer stock of the COVID-19 vaccines, the Union Health Ministry said in a statement. |
 | Ready, steady, jab: 93 COVID vaccine centres across Telangana to open at 9 am in second phaseEach of these 93 centres will have a capacity of 200 beneficiaries and the registrations will be done on the CoWIN app only. |
 | Bihar judicial records and free legal advice in digital modePatna Sahib MP and Union IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the status of 18.09 crore cases and 13.59 crore orders have been uploaded on NJDG. |
 | Nearly 70 per cent expenditure on health to come out of patients' pockets: Finance Commission reportIn its report, the top panel has made strong remarks on the poor healthcare system, saying even 73 years after independence the quality healthcare has remained elusive for many. |
 | Rs 20 crore for Regional Centre for empowerment of physically challenged in Tripura: Union MinisterThe Tripura government has allotted six acres of land for the construction of a new building of the centre. |
 | Private hospitals to double up as COVID vaccination centresHospitals empanelled for state-run health insurance schemes will also be the vaccination centres in this phase of the programme, set to begin from March 1, the states were told on Friday by Centre. |
 | Private hospitals empanelled under health schemes as Covid vaccination centresPrimary and community health centres, Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres sub-division hospitals, district hospitals and medical college hospitals will be designated as vaccination centres. |
 | Smaller cities including Visakhapatnam, Agra and Lucknow saw more pollution this winter: AnalysisThe analysis has considered 99 cities where data availability for two consecutive winters meets the minimum criteria of requirement for 75 per cent of data completeness. |
 | Mahindra rolls out its Krish-e centres in five Karnataka districtsThe company’s statement said Krish-e aims to increase farmers income through digitally enabled services, across the complete crop cycle. |
 | Centre bats for long-term green clearance to projectsThe proposal comes even as the Environment ministry has claimed to have streamlined the green clearance process to cut down the time for according approvals to projects in various sectors. |
 | Over 7,000 coronavirus mutations in India, many have serious risks: ScientistRakesh Mishra, Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, said among the variants, N440K is spreading a lot more in South. |
