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22:22 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: PM Kristersson hails historic day as Sweden joins NATO

On Thursday, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson celebrated a significant milestone in Swedish security policy as the country officially joined the NATO alliance, becoming its 32nd member. Following a ceremony in Washington, D.C., Kristersson emphasized the importance of unity and solidarity for Sweden as a NATO member. This statement was delivered in Washington after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (READ MORE)

21:47 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Construction at Ram temple complex in Ayodhya to end by Dec 2024

On Thursday, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust announced that the construction of the Ram temple complex in Ayodhya will be finished by December of this year.

21:44 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Railway jobs scam LIVE: CBI arrests official for duping over 23 people

The CBI has arrested the chief depot material superintendent of the Central Railways posted in Mumbai for allegedly duping more than 23 people on the pretext of providing them jobs in the railways, officials said on Thursday. The agency has taken Rajesh Ramesh Nayak into custody, they said.

19:35 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Sweden will soon become NATO member, prime minister says

Sweden will soon become the 32nd member of the NATO alliance, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in a post on social media platform X on Thursday.

19:16 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Ireland to vote on removing 'sexist' references to women from constitution

Ireland is poised to vote on Friday - International Women's Day - to replace constitutional references on the importance of a woman's "life within the home", the latest attempt to update its socially conservative 1937 founding document. (REUTERS)

18:44 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Court summons Delhi CM Kejriwal on March 16 after fresh complaint by ED

On Thursday, a Delhi court summoned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in response to a new complaint filed by the ED. The complaint accuses him of evading summonses in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam. The court stated that there are "sufficient grounds" to proceed against him.

16:24 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: New Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif approves plan to privatise PIA 

According to a media report on Thursday, Pakistan's recently-elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has given the green light for privatising Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the country's third-largest public sector loss-making entity, before June 15. (READ MORE)

16:13 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Airbus gets DGCA nod for H160 helicopter in India

The aviation regulator DGCA has granted approval to Airbus for its latest H160 helicopter model in India. Currently, various entities in the country are operating over 100 Airbus helicopters, including the single-engine H125.

15:52 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Pakistan gets first Sikh minister in Punjab province

On Thursday, Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora, a veteran legislator with three terms under his belt, took the oath as a provincial minister, marking a historic moment as the first Sikh to hold such a position in post-partition Punjab. According to a report on Dawn.com, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif's cabinet has appointed Arora to oversee the portfolio of minorities in the Punjab province.

13:35 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: 3 convicts of Delhi murder case get life sentence by Tis Hazari Court


Delhi's Tis Hazari Court awards life sentence to three convicts in the murder case of 2018. The court has imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000 on each convict. (ANI)

13:23 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Erasmus Prize 2024 awarded to Amitav Ghosh


The Premium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. He receives the prize for his passionate contribution to the theme 'imagining the unthinkable', in which an unprecedented global crisis - climate change - takes shape through the written word.

10:58 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Three band members die due to electrocution in UP's Agra

Three band members on their way to a wedding in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district died due to electrocution on Wednesday.

10:18 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Delhi court issues summons to Arvind Kejriwal on March 16 for not complying with ED summons

Delhi court has summoned CM Kejriwal on March 16 for his non-compliance to ED summons. CM Arvind Kejriwal has previously been summoned by ED 8 times. (READ MORE)

09:53 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Chhattisgarh LIVE: Fire breaks out at govt girl's porta cabin in Bijapur

A massive fire broke out in a government residential girls porta cabin school in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a police official said.

09:29 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: ED raids premises of SP's jailed MLA Irfan Solanki, his brother in Kanpur

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided the premises of Samajwadi Party's jailed MLA Irfan Solanki in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur. According to the officials, the premises of Solanki's brother, Arshad, was also raided. (READ MORE)

09:01 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Assam CM inaugurates country's largest Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana

The Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, inaugurated the country's largest Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana in the Naharkatia area of Dibrugarh.

08:30 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
PM Modi LIVE: Prime Minister Modi in Srinagar today, participate in 'Viksit Bharat Viksit Jammu Kashmir'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday where he will unveil development projects worth more than Rs 6,400 crore and address a public meeting.

08:30 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Customs seizes over 2 kg of gold at Mumbai airport

The Airport Commissionerate, Mumbai Customs Zone-III, has seized over 2.08 kg of gold valued at 1.14 crore in three different cases at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) here, said officials. The officials said that the seizures were done on Tuesday and Wednesday.

08:28 (IST) 7 Mar 2024
Breaking News LIVE: Karkardooma Court discharges 11 accused in 2020 Delhi riot case

Delhi's Karkardooma Court has discharged 11 men accused of rioting, and burning shops and vehicles in the Dayal Pur area of northeast Delhi during riots in February 2020. The accused, also charged with criminal conspiracy, were discharged due to lack of evidence.