07:12 pm: No where in country has a sitting Lokayukta been attacked. First time a CM has helped a convict which is not only shameful for a CM but also mockery of the democracy. GUV should take cognisance and legal action against him and he should resign on moral grounds: BS Yeddyurappa, BJP (ANI)
07:09 pm: SR Kar appointed as the new Director General of Press Information Bureau (PIB). He will take charge on 1st May, 2018 (ANI)
07:04 pm: US hiring surge adds 313,000 jobs in February, most in 1 ½ years, as jobless rate stays 4.1 percent (AP)
07:00 pm: We've to reach the intersection of prosperity, business and development just like Sangam in Allahabad. We're not here to see a punctured cycle on an elephant. Farmers and businessmen have benefited immensely because of better security in UP: Piyush Goyal in Jhusi, Allahabad (ANI)
06:57 pm: It is our government's duty to serve the people and in UP the priority is welfare of the poor for which the Yogi govt is working tirelessly. We have now made UP a corruption free state: Union Minister, Piyush Goyal, in Jhusi, Allahabad (ANI)
06:45 pm: Erdogan says Turkey can enter 'at any moment' centre of Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin (AFP)
06:30 pm: Mauritius president to resign after being implicated in financial scandal: PM (AFP)
06:09 pm: CBI application seeking permissions to bring Indrani Mukerjea and Peter Mukerjea to Delhi for confrontation & for identification of some locations in Delhi in presence of Karti Chidambaram is dismissed as not pressed: CBI Special Court (ANI)
06:00 pm: Even after divorce, for the benefits of their children, they will talk together. They will discuss about their children's welfare. Here also, the people of Andhra Pradesh are children to Chandrababu Naidu and Narendra Modi: JC Diwakar Reddy, TDP on party quitting central ministry (ANI)
05:55 pm: We have made two amendments in the case. Added life sentence and life imprisonment for convicts in offences against girls below 12 years of age, also made a provision that convict can't leave the prison for life even after completing 14 years of sentence: Rajasthan HM GC Kataria (ANI)
05:45 pm: There should be more woman in the Armed Forces: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (ANI)
05:41 pm: CBI recovered fresh documents in INX Media Case after conducting searches on 7th and 8th March and submitted the seized documents to the court (ANI)
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05:29 pm: US govt announces rewards on 3 Pakistani terrorists. A state dept release says $5 million reward for information leading to the identification or location of TTP Chief Maulana Fazlullah, $3 million each for Abdul Wali of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Mangal Bagh of Lashkar-e-Islam: Reuters
05:25 pm: Karnataka High Court postpones hearing of bail plea of Mohammad Harris Nalapad and six others to March 13 (ANI)
05:17 pm: Opposition can never see the good in this budget. It governed for 15 years andthe problems which we are solving today had been created by them in the first place: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis (ANI)
05:14 pm: There had never been such large scale investment in agriculture and infrastructure. Backward classes are going to be benefited. Large number of employment opportunities will be generated through this budget and will take Maharashtra forward: Maha CM after presentation of state budget (ANI)
05:09 pm: Karnataka CM should resign immediately on moral grounds. Misrule shouldn't continue. I'm going to ask the Governor for President's rule. Why did he come up with a flag in 4th year of his regime? If he wanted to have a state flag he could've done it earlier: BS Yeddyurappa, BJP (ANI)
05:07 pm: Statue of Dr BR Ambdekar vandalised by some unidentified miscreants in Haridwar, new statue reinstalled at the spot. Police investigation underway (ANI)
