INDIA
– Nationwide COVID Vaccination of children between 15 and 18 years begins; besides Aadhaar & other national identity cards, children can use school ID cards for registration
– Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla releases CyberPravah – newsletter of Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre
– Ayush Ministry makes available ‘Ayush Aahaar’ at its canteen in New Delhi
– Education Minister and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launches NEAT 3.0 (National Educational Alliance for Technology 3.0)
– Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science & Technology at Chandigarh University
– PM pays tributes to Rani Velu Nachiyar, the Sivaganga queen in Tamil Nadu who waged war against the British, on her birth anniversary
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– RBI releases framework on offline digital payments; will be capped at Rs 200 per transaction
– India’s December jobless rate hits four-month high of 7.9%: CMIE
– India achieved highest-ever monthly exports of $37 bn in Dec 2021: Piyush Goyal
WORLD
– Fire ravages South Africa’s historic 138-year-old Parliament complex in Cape Town
