# High covid-19 positivity

• Daily covid-19 cases touched a 24 day high at 41,649 cases on saturday.

• Health secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to several states that all districts reporting a positivity rate of more than 10% in the last few weeks ought to consider strict restrictions.

• Only 10.8% of India’s adult population has received both doses of a covid-19 vaccine.

# National film archive of India (NFAI)

• In a major acquisition, the pune based national film archive of India (NFAI) has added more than 450 glass slides of films from the golden heyday of Telugu cinema.

• These glass slides constitute a veritable pictorial history of the golden age of telugu cinema from the late 1930s to mid 1950s.

• NFAI is the country’s premier film repository.

# Pulwama mastermind

• Two jaish-e-mohammad terrorists, including one of the masterminds of the 2019 pulwama attack was killed.

• One of the killed terrorists was an expert in making improvised explosive devices (IED).

• The two slain JeM terrorists are Mohammad Ismal alvi, from JeM chief Azhar massod’s family and other one sameer Dar was a local from pulwama.

# United nations security council

• India will begin its month long presidency of the united nations security council.

• India is set to hold high level meetings and briefings to bring focus on its three priorities which include maritime security, counterterrorism and peacekeeping.

# UN warns hunger

• Hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in next three months.

• Most affected will be Tigray region in Ethopia, southern madagascar, yemen, south sudan and northern nigeria.

• The food and agriculture organisation and world food program said in a new report on “hunger hotspots”.