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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)
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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.
Three band members on their way to a wedding in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district died due to electrocution on Wednesday.
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)
A massive fire broke out in a government residential girls porta cabin school in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a police official said.
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)
The Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, inaugurated the country's largest Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana in the Naharkatia area of Dibrugarh.
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.
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.
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.