Amid growing concern over rising Covid-19 cases in Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday ordered a slew of restrictions, including capping limit on indoor and outdoor gatherings, increased COVID testing and night curfew.

The chief minister capped indoor gatherings to 100 and outdoor to 200 persons from March 1, along with strict enforcement of mask-wearing and social distancing, with testing to be ramped to 30,000 a day.

Uttar Pradesh is set to get the third international airport as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has given all the necessary clearances for the Kushinagar Airport to operate international flights, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri informed on Tuesday.

Kushinagar Airport gets necessary clearances from DGCA to become 3rd licensed international airport of UP. Will boost tourism in the region & facilitate travel on Buddhist circuit by providing direct aviation connectivity to the city where Lord Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana., Puri said in a tweet on Tuesday.

No Chinese company has been given the green signal to invest in India and no such proposal has been under consideration to be accepted as of now. India will continue to closely watch China's next steps along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and will not rush to lift restrictions on investments from Bejing, our reporter quoted government sources.

This comes a day after some reports were published in international media stating that India was set to clear 45 investment proposals from China, including those from Great Wall Motor and SAIC Motor Corp.

Surpassing Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Motera has become the largest cricket stadium in the world. Located in Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, the Motera Stadium will be inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday as the ground gets ready for the third Test match between India and England.

The stadium will be inaugurated on February 24 by President Ram Nath Kovind in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

With the BJP set to retain power in six Gujarat municipal corporations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday termed the victory very special and said for a party that has been serving in a state for over two decades to record such a phenomenal win is noteworthy.

The BJP on Tuesday appeared on course to retain power in six municipal corporations, winning 472 of the 576 seats where results were declared till evening.

The protesting farmers will gherao the Parliament if the central government doesn't repeal the farm laws, Bharatiya Kisan leader (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has warned. There will be forty lakh tractors this time instead of 4 lakh, he added.

Tikait has also asked the protesting farmers to be ready as there can be a call to march to Delhi anytime.

Amid the ongoing farmers' protest against the Central agri laws, Congress leader and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday said that the party has decided to bring a no-confidence motion against the BJP-JJP government in Haryana.

The Congress leader claimed that two independent MLAs who were supporting the Haryana government, have withdrawn their support.

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson says it will be able to provide 20 million US doses of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine by the end of March, assuming it gets the greenlight from federal regulators.

J&J disclosed the figure in written testimony ahead of a Congressional hearing on Tuesday looking at the country's vaccine supply. White House officials cautioned last week that initial supplies of J&J's vaccine would be limited.

The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 111.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.47 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 111,705,909 and 2,473,742 respectively.

Shares of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries (RIL) rose 2 per cent to hit an intra-day high of Rs 2,048.70 on the BSE after the company said it has begun the process of carving out the O2C business into an independent subsidiary and expects to get the necessary approvals for the same by the second quarter of the next financial year.

The company said the O2C business will be turned into a separate entity that will be 100 per cent owned by RIL and will result in no change in the company's shareholding.

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