The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved an extension in service of Vinay Mohan Kwatra (IFS:1988) as Foreign Secretary for six months beyond April 30, 2024 i.e. up to October 31, 2024 or until further orders.
SBI sends all electoral bonds data to the Election Commission of India by 5:30 pm, according to media reports.
Congress releases second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal says "Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi to contest from Jorhat, Assam. Nakul Nath to contest from Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara. Rahul Kaswa to contest from Rajasthan's Churu. Vaibhav Gehlot to contest from Jalore.
BJP's Nayab Singh Saini takes oath as new Haryana Chief Minister after ML Khattar, entire cabinet step down. Nayab Singh Saini, 54, is considered a confidante of Manohar Lal Khattar and will be replacing the BJP strongman whose second term as chief minister was going to end in October.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) could approve Paytm's request for third-party application license this week. The central bank is unlikely to extend the deadline of March 15 set for Paytm's banking unit, Paytm Payments Bank, to shut down its operations, Reuters said citing sources. Customers will be able to continue using the Paytm app to make payments through the unified payment interface (UPI) after the banking arm winds down, facilitated by the third-party application provider license.
A Tejas aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed near a student hostel in Rajasthan, news agency ANI reported today. A pilot was ejected from the aircraft safely, officials said. This is the first crash of the LCA Tejas since its first test flight, 23 years ago, in 2001. Tejas was inducted into the Indian Air Force in 2016.
Bharatiya Janata Party's Nayab Singh Saini is set to be the next Haryana chief minister after Manohar Lal Khattar submitted his resignation today, according to media reports.
Rumours have been swirling in political circles about the possibility of a break in BJP's ties with the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) over disagreements on seat-sharing for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of railway projects worth Rs 85,000 crore from Ahmedabad. PM Modi also flagged off 10 new Vande Bharat trains on his visit to Gujarat. Ten new Vande Bharat trains between Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Mysuru- Dr MGR Central (Chennai), Patna- Lucknow, New Jalpaiguri-Patna, Puri-Visakhapatnam, Lucknow - Dehradun, Kalaburagi - Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru, Ranchi-Varanasi, Khajuraho- Delhi (Nizamuddin) ill be flagged off by PM Modi. PM Modi will also flag off freight trains on the Dedicated Freight Corridor from various locations - New Khurja Jn, Sahnewal, New Rewari, New Kishangarh, New Gholvad, and New Makarpura.
Hours after the Centre implemented the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, Security measures was tightened in many parts of Delhi with paramilitary personnel conducting night patrols and flag marches in the northeastern parts of the city, Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar and other areas. Protests were held across the country, including Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh, after the CAA bill was passed in Parliament on December 11, 2019. After the central government implemented the CAA on Monday, notifying the rules four years after the law was passed, police in Delhi's northeast district identified 43 hotspots and conducted patrols there.
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