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4:55 PM

How can anyone say I have no family when I have brothers, sisters like you?: PM Modi at outreach programme

"My govt's schemes for toilets, cooking gas benefited deprived sections of society," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an address to beneficiaries from disadvantaged sections. PM Modi was attending the nationwide outreach programme for credit support to disadvantaged sections through virtual means.

4:29 PM

News update: PM attends outreach programme for credit support to disadvantaged sections

PM Modi virtually attended a nationwide outreach programme for extending credit support to disadvantaged sections.

4:06 PM

IBM announces job cuts in two of its divisions: Report

IBM has reportedly announced layoffs in the the company's marketing and communications division without informing about the specific number of job cuts.  The decision to fire employess was disclosed in a seven-minute meeting by Jonathan Adashek, the chief communications officer at IBM, to the employees in the department. 

3:28 PM

Union Cabinet gives nod to two corridors of Delhi Metro Phase-IV projects

The Union Cabinet has approved two corridors of Delhi Metro Phase-IV projects: Lajpat Nagar to Saket G-Block and  Inderlok to Indraprastha.

2:53 PM

News update: Delhi HC rejects Congress' relief plea on I-T dept action on banks accounts

The Delhi High Court has upheld the ITAT order refusing to stay the Income Tax Department's notice to Congress for recovery of outstanding tax of over Rs 100 crore.

2:42 PM

Bihar: Transformer installed in Patna civil court explodes

2:37 PM

Nayab Singh Saini government wins trust vote in Haryana Assembly amid JJP whip

The Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) had issued a whip, asking its 10 legislators to remain absent from the House during voting on the confidence motion. However, when the issue of trust vote was taken up, five of its MLAs left the House. In the 90-member state assembly, the BJP has 41 MLAs and it also enjoys the support of six of the seven independents as well as of lone Haryana Lokhit Party legislator Gopal Kanda.The JJP has 10 legislators in the House while the main opposition Congress has 30.

2:19 PM

News update: CM Nayab Saini wins confidence vote in Haryana Assembly

2:15 PM

Jobs meant for us will go to them; law and order situation will crumble: Delhi CM on CAA implementation

1:50 PM

New Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini's appointment challenged in high court

The BJP on Tuesday appointed Nayab Singh Saini as the new chief minister of Haryana following the resignation submitted by former CM Manohar Lal Khattar. Amid the ongoing political crisis in Haryana, Saini's appointment by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has been challenged in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, according to LiveLaw

1:41 PM

Stone-pelting on bus after 2 groups quarrel over temple loudspeaker volume in Maharashtra

A state transport bus was allegedly pelted with stones after an altercation between members of two communities over the volume of a loudspeaker at a temple in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city, police said on Wednesday.

 

Two cases have been registered against several persons in connection with the incident which took place at around 8.30 pm on Tuesday in Chikalthana area close to the city airport, they said.

1:22 PM

Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra reaches Maharashtra; here's what he said

12:56 PM

Here's what the State Bank of India stated in its affidavit submitted to SC in electoral bonds case

From April 1 to 11, 2019 total number of Electoral Bonds purchased was 3346 and a total number of bonds redeemed was 1609, SBI states in its affidavit.

 

SBI further tells Supreme Court that from April 12, 2019 to February 15, 2024 total number of Electoral Bonds purchased was 18,871 and the total number of bonds redeemed was 20,421.

 

 

12:53 PM

SBI electoral bond case: Chairman files affidavit in SC, says details submitted to ECI

Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI) files an affidavit in the Supreme Court apprising that in compliance of the top court’s order, date of purchase of each Electoral Bond, the name of the purchaser and the denomination of the Electoral Bond purchased has been furnished to the Election Commission of India.

 

The bank has also furnished the detail to the Election Commission regarding the date of encashment of the Electoral Bonds, the name of political parties who have received the contributions and the denomination of the said bonds, affidavit states.

 

SBI says that the data has been furnished in respect of bonds purchased and redeemed between April 12, 2019 to February 15, 2024.

 

 

12:30 PM

Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if threatened: Putin says in state media interview

Speaking in an interview with Russian state television released early Wednesday, Russia 's President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia is ready to deploy nuclear weapons if there is a threat to Russian statehood, sovereignty, or independence. Putin said he hoped that the US would avoid any escalation that could trigger a nuclear war, but emphasized that Russia's nuclear forces are ready for it.