06:37 pm: Cabinet will create a new thrust policy to identify 12 Champion Service Sectors All of this will be supported with an amount of Rs 5000 Crore initially to grow: Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce and Industry (ANI)
06:36 pm: Cabinet approves doubling of Government guarantee from Rs 9,500 crore to Rs.19,000 crore for procurement of pulses and oilseeds at MSP (ANI)
06:10 pm: Cabinet approves MoU between India and Vietnam on Economic and Trade Cooperation (ANI)
05:52 pm: Q3 GDP growth is at 7.2 per cent, up from Q2's 6.5 per cent (ANI)
05:45 pm: Out of the blue arrest is made today, 11 years after the so-called incident & after due appearance before CBI & submission of all documents. FIR till today does not mention or name Karti Chidambaram as an accused: Randeep Surjewala (ANI)
05:44 pm: PM & his ministers using political witch-hunt & malicious intent to deflect heat from bank scam & losses to public exchequer. Political persecution of P Chidambaram & his son by puppet CBI to serve agenda of their political master is nothing but cog in this wheel: R Surjewala (ANI)
05:44 pm: I am not a 'Hindustan Leaver' like others. CBI arrested me on the grounds of my return: Abhishek Manu Singhvi (Counsel for Karti Chidambaram) in Delhi's Patiala House Court (ANI)
05:43 pm: Abhishek Manu Singhvi tells Court that it is most bizarre case against Karti Chidambaram by CBI. The arrest is motivated. He hasn't been given a single summon in last 6 months & allegations made by CBI that he is not cooperating, when no summon has been issued after August 2017 (ANI)
05:37 pm: Nirav Modi refuses to join CBI investigations in PNB scam case: Officials (PTI)
05:37 pm: Eight core infra sectors grow by 6.7 per cent in January against 3.4 pc in the same month last year (PTI)
05:18 pm: Appointment Committee of the Cabinet also approved the extension of senior advocates Maninder Singh, PS Narsimha, Tushar Mehta and Pinky Anand as Additional Solicitor General for the Supreme Court of India till 30.06.20 (ANI)
05:17 pm: Appointment Committee of the Cabinet approved the proposal for the appointment of senior advocates Vikramjit Banerjee, Aman Lekhi and Sandeep Sethi new Additional Solicitor General for the Supreme Court of India till 30.06.20 (ANI)
05:06 pm: IPS officer Shivanand Jha appointed as the new Director General and Inspector General of Police of Gujarat (ANI)
05:01 pm: Chief ministers and deputy CM's of BJP ruled states arrived for meeting with BJP National President Amit Shah in Delhi (ANI)
04:53 pm: Karti Chidambaram's Chartered Accountant S Bhaskararaman files bail plea in the INX Media case. Enforcement Directorate had arrested S. Bhaskararaman from a hotel in Delhi on February 16 (ANI)
04:35 pm: Metro services will not be available till 2.30 pm on all lines of Delhi Metro on 2nd March. Metro train services will start at 2.30 pm on all lines and will continue normally thereafter (ANI)
04:19 pm: Odisha's Bijepur bypoll results: BJD's Rita Sahu scores victory over BJP rival by 41,933 votes
04:10 pm: 10 IPS officers transferred in Uttar Pradesh (ANI)
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04:00 pm: Sensex falls 162.35 points to close on 34,184.04; Nifty slips to 10,492.85
