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1. India passes a grim milestone today as it becomes only the third country to report over 4 lakh Covid deaths after the US and Brazil. Half of the fatalities are reported during a second wave that overwhelmed the healthcare system and crematoriums. 2. The central government has sent six high-level multi-disciplinary public health teams to six states reporting a high number of COVID-19 cases. The teams will assist the states of Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur in COVID-19 control and containment measures. 3. Navjot Singh Sidhu today puts out nine tweets attacking Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh over the state's power crisis. 4. The Enforcement Directorate attaches assets worth over Rs 65 crore in the Maharashtra state cooperative bank case of 2019. There are links here to the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar as the opposition says central agencies are being used to target them yet again. 5. An Army jawan is killed in an encounter with terrorists in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir as security forces launch anti-terror operations. 6. Petrol prices hiked yet again, the price now crosses Rs 105 a litre in Mumbai.
