TNI Morning News Headlines – February 16, 2022

Odisha News

Odisha reports 852 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday including 495 quarantine and 357 local contact cases.

Khordha reported 153 new Covid cases followed by Sundargarh 127 in the last 24 hours.

Odisha reports 181 Covid cases in 0-18 years of age group.

Odisha reports 19 more deaths; death toll mounts to 8,945.

Mahila Police seeks permission from SDJM court Bhubaneswar to take ‘fake doctor’ on 7-day remand who had married 14 women in 7 states.

Odisha Panchayat Polls 2022: Voting underway; 67.51 lakh voters to decide the fate of 726 Zilla Parishad candidates today.

Sarpanch election countermanded after death of a woman sarpanch candidate of Jasapada panchayat under Cuttack Sadar block.

India News

India reports 30,615 fresh COVID cases (11% higher than yesterday’s numbers), 82,988 recoveries, and 514 deaths in the last 24 hours.

PM Modi offers his prayers at the Ravidas Temple in New Delhi’s Karol Bagh on the occasion of ‘Ravidas Jayanti’.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah takes the salute at 75th Raising Day Parade of Delhi Police in Delhi.

Assembly Elections 2022: PM Narendra Modi to address rallies in Punjab’s Pathankot, Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur today.

Naxals have released an engineer and a worker of private construction company, who were abducted in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district last week.

India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage crosses 173 cr mark.

Last rites of singer-composer Bappi Lahiri will be performed tomorrow.

Bappi Lahiri, Composer-Singer, dies in Mumbai Hospital at 69.

Sensex currently trading at 58,178; Nifty trades at 17,367. Sensex gains 88.53 pts to 58,230.58 in opening trade; Nifty up 31.40 pts at 17,383.85

World News

Global Covid caseload surpassed 415.1 million.

Government asks Indians to leave Ukraine amid Russia threat.

Oil inches closer to $100 as Russia-Ukraine tensions simmer.

Cyber attack hits Ukrainian government sites, major banks.