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1 ! "# ! $ ! ! ! %# ! " & ! ' ( ) * ' + # $ %& , - ) . ' * / ' 01 ! 2 ' 3 / ' / / 45 ,46-7 For the first time since thethird Covid-19 wave hit thecountry, the number of dailycases has shown a decline inseveral States such asMaharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka,We s t B e n g a l a n d G u j a r a tamong others. However,experts feel that cases willagain spike on Tuesday asMonday s report was the out-come of lowest testing on country recorded1,79,723 new coronavirus caseson Monday, raising the tally crore. This included 4,033cases of Omicron variantreported across 27 States andUnion country reported 146deaths linked to the virus.

2 Thesteep rise in the past week wasprimarily due to the case surgein urban centres such asMumbai, Delhi, Kolkata,Bengaluru, and Monday, Delhi saw adip reporting 19,166 cases dur-ing the last 24 hours. Thenational Capital reported22,751 cases in the last 24hours. The positivity rate inDelhi stood at 25 per cent, thehighest since May 5. The cityalso reported 17 are currently 65,806active Covid patients in theCapital, the highest since May15. As many as 44,028 patientsare in home-isolation and therecovery rate stands at cent. Around 14,076patients were discharged inthe past 24 saw a dip in coro-navirus cases for the third dayrunning recording 13,648 caseson Monday.

3 This is around 30per cent lower than Sunday scount. But the positivity ratestood at a very high at 23 percent. Mumbai on Mondayreported 13,648 new Covid-19cases, around 30 per cent or5,826 less cases than the pre-vious day count. The city stally of infections now stands at9,28,220 and the death toll at16, on Mondayreported 33,470 new Covid-19cases, which is nearly 11,000lower than the previous Bengal recordedaround 19,286 caases onMonday, lower than Sunday snumber of 24,000 plus State saw 8,187 recoveriesand 16 case count alsocame down slightly from12,000 plus cases on Sunday to11,698 new cases and 4 deathsin the last 24 hours.

4 KarnatakaChief Minister M BasavarajBommai also tested positive forCovid-19 with mild symp-toms . But daily cases increased )-8 ,798:- Ahead of the Assembly pollsin Punjab, actor-philan-thropist Sonu Sood s sisterMalvika Sood on Mondayjoined the Congress, withPunjab Chief MinisterCharanjit Singh Channi battingfor her candidature from Mogafor the February 14 Assemblypolls, saying the party s sittinglegislator Harjot Kamal will besuitably Sood s joining theparty will be a game-changer ,said Punjab Congress presidentNavjot Singh Sidhu, who alongwith Channi, travelled to theSood s residence in moga dis-trict for the event.

5 It is very rare that a party(state) chief and the ChiefMinister both have gone tosomeone s home to grant thehonour, and she deserves it, said and Malvika metSidhu and Channi at moga , butthe actor was not present at thepress conference when his sis-ter joined the Congress. 45 ,46-7 The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to heara PIL seeking action against those who madehate speeches during the recent DharamSansad held at Haridwar in Uttarakhand. Abench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana tooknote of the submissions of senior advocate KapilSibal that no action has been taken against thosewho made the hate speeches despite the regis-tration of an FIR.

6 I have moved this PIL in respect of whathappened in Dharam Sansad in Haridwar onDecember 17 and 19. We are living in difficulttimes where slogan in the country has changedfrom Satyamev Jayate to Shashtramev Jayate, Sibal said. All right, we ll take up the matter, the CJI said. Sibal also told the bench that though theUttarakhand Police has registered an FIR, noarrests were made against the speakers whomade vitriolic speeches. After the CJI asked whether any enquiry wasalready on in the case, Sibal said, The FIRs havebeen filed, no arrests have been made. This isin the State of Uttarakhand. No action will betaken without the intervention of your lordships.

7 The hate speeches were allegedly deliveredbetween December 17 and 19, 2021, in Haridwarby Yati Narsinghanand and in Delhi by HinduYuva Vahini .The petition has sought an independent,credible and impartial probe by a special inves-tigation team into the hate speeches against theMuslim community. ! ! " 45 ,46-7 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) haschargesheeted four Bangladeshis and oneIndian operative of Bangladesh-based Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in connectionwith a case related to the arrest of a JMB terror-ist in five chargesheeted accused Bangladeshinationals are Najiur Rahman Pavel, alias Joseph,Mikail Khan alias Sekh Sabir, Rabiul Islam, aliasRabiul Isalm, Md Abdul Mannan Bachu, aliasMannan, and Indian national Lalu Sen alias case was originally registered as FIR dated July 10, 2021 at STF PoliceStation, Kolkata, in connection with hatching ofcriminal conspiracy by three Bangladeshi nation-als who had illegally entered India along with theirassociates of JMB/AQIS, to recruit.

8 Motivateyoung Muslim youth in order to establish Caliphate and for the furtherance of terroristactivities in India and Bangladesh. ;8 9<=<Acourt in Myanmar sentenced oustedleader Aung San Suu Kyi to four moreyears in prison on Monday after finding herguilty of illegally importing and possessingwalkie-talkies and violating coronavirusrestrictions, a legal official Kyi was convicted last month on twoother charges and given a four-year prison sen-tence, which was then halved by the head ofthe military-installed cases are among about a dozenbrought against the 76-year-old Nobel PeacePrize laureate since the army seized power lastFebruary, ousting her elected government andarresting top members of her found guilty of all the charges.

9 She couldbe sentenced to more than 100 years in Kyi s supporters and independent ana-lysts say the charges against her are contrivedto legitimize the military s seizure of s verdict in the court in the cap-ital, Naypyitaw, was conveyed by a legal offi-cial who insisted on anonymity for fear ofbeing punished by the authorities, who haverestricted the release of information about SuuKyi s trials. !" " # " $ % & # ! ! "# # $ 45 ,46-7 The Delhi DisasterManagement Authority(DDMA) on Mondayannounced that restaurantsand bars would remain closedfor dine-in services but takeaway services would continuein the national a high-level meeting,chaired by Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal, it wasdecided that a lockdown wouldnot be imposed in the to the minutesof the meeting, ways to strict-ly enforce existing restrictionsto check rising cases of Covid-19 and the latest variantOmicron in the Capital a series of tweets, Baijalinformed, Chaired the 31stmeeting of the DDMA toreview the Covid-19 situationin Delhi along with Hon bleCM @ArvindKejriwal, Hon bleDyCM @msisodia.

10 Hon bleMinisters @SatyendarJain &@kgahlot, Dr VK Paul-NITIA ayog, Chief Secretary,Prof Balram Bhargava-ICMR,Dr Randeep s DDMA meeting decid-ed to close restaurants andbars and to allow takeaway facilities only. It was also decid-ed to allow operation of onlyone weekly market per day perzone. Baijal also announced thatonly one weekly market wouldbe allowed to operate per dayin each zone. The Delhi HealthDepartment was advised tomake adequate arrangementsfor additional manpower inhospitals and to scale up thevaccination efforts, includingfor those in the age group of 15-18 years, Baijal is vital to mention herethat Delhi is functioning under yellow alert as per the GRAP system that has been in placesince December , the city registered19,166 fresh Covid-19 cases onMonday and 17 deaths, accord-ing to the Covid-19 health bul-letin of the Delhi positivity rate was record-ed at 25 per Delhi Governmenthas also said that the Covid-19health infrastructure is robustin the city.