- In Punjab, Journalists and other media personnel have written to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann alleging that they were getting calls from the state intelligence wing, asking for personal details and names of media houses they work with.
- The Consumer affairs ministry has issued a warning not only to manufacturers and advertisers of products prohibited for advertising but also to celebrities featuring in their surrogate ads.
- President of the National Christian League has moved the Punjab HC seeking protection for churches and their properties, including statues of Christ, citing attacks in Tarn Taran district and elsewhere in the state.
- Dalit politician Jagdish Chandra of the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP), was allegedly kidnapped and brutally beaten to death by his wife Geeta Singh’s family. Police inquiry says they were unhappy with their daughter’s marriage to Chandra from a lower caste.
- A large number of Cormorant birds, their nests, hatchlings, and eggs were destroyed after a tamarind tree was axed down for widening NH-66 in Kerala’s Malappuram. Condemning the act, the State forest department has arrested three persons engaged in the work.
- In Ugergynd village of Newa in Pulwama district, terrorists shot at a migrant worker from West Bengal, injuring him with gun wounds.
- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while inspecting a fair price shop at Birkoor village in Telangana, questioned collector Jitesh Patel on why PM Modi’s photo is not displayed in the ration shop.
- As per recent medical reports, 13 of 100 children born in Chennai between 2021 and 2022 were below the normal recommended weight of 2.5 kg, indicating health risks of undernourishment and childhood mortality.
- Dutch investor and Lambretta enthusiast Walter Scheffrahn plans to bring the iconic scooters back to Indian roads by the end of 2023.
- Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov expressed satisfaction with Indo-Russian relations. He recalled how India shunned western-backed efforts to involve it in bringing restrictions on Russia’s energy sales.
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