News in Short

• Facebook restricted Russian state media’s ability to earn money on the social media platform as Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine reached the streets of Kyiv.
• Facebook’s parent company Meta said that Russia would hit its services with restrictions after it refused authorities’ order to stop using fact-checkers and content warning labels on its platforms.
• Social media networks have become one of the fronts in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, home to sometimes misleading information but also real-time monitoring of a quickly developing conflict.

• Dabangg Delhi beat Patna Pirates 37-36 to clinch its maiden Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) title in Bengaluru.
• Naveen Kumar and Vijay’s raiding brilliance came to the side’s aid once more as the duo bagged Super 10s and scored a total of 27 points.
• Bengaluru Bulls captain Pawan Kumar Sehrawat took home the Best Raider award, while Dabang Delhi KC’s star player Naveen Kumar won the MVP award.

• The UN Security Council voted on the draft resolution sponsored by the US and Albania and supported by several other nations including Poland, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Luxembourg and New Zealand.
• Eleven countries voted in favour of the resolution while three countries, including India abstained from voting.
• By abstaining, India retained the option of reaching out to relevant sides in an effort to bridge the gap and find the middle ground with an aim to foster dialogue and diplomacy.

• President Joe Biden nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the first Black woman selected to serve on a court.
• Jackson would be the current court’s second Black member and just the third in history. She would replace liberal Justice Stephen Breyer.
• She would be only the sixth woman to serve on the court, but she would join three others already there, including the first Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

• In a first, a union law secretary Anoop Kumar Mendirattahas been appointed as a judge of a high court.
• Besides Mr Mendiratta, three other judicial officers – Neena Bansal Krishna, Dinesh Kumar Sharma and Sudhir Kumar Jain – have also been elevated as judges of the Delhi High Court.
• Mendiratta has been working on deputation as Law Secretary of India since October 2019. This is the first time that a union law secretary has been appointed as a high court judge.