Breaking News, March 11

 The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will remain closed on Friday for vehicular traffic due to slated maintenance, officials said.

Puducherry Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan accorded her approval on Thursday to a proposal to declare as 'all pass' this academic year, students of classes 1 to 9 in the Union Territory.

SBI will conduct e-auctions of 12 bad accounts this month to recover dues of over Rs 506 crore under sale to asset reconstruction company (ARC) mechanism.

The Nepal government has banned expedition teams on the Mt Everest climb from taking photographs and videos of persons outside their group.

United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine unions, has given a call for a two-day strike from March 15 to protest against the proposed privatisation of two state-owned lenders.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Sudesh Dhankhar receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at Command Hospital in Kolkata. 

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray took his first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy offered a prayer to Lord Shiva at Gudivada town in Krishna, on the occasion of Mahashivratri.

Sattur AIADMK MLA Rajavarman joins AMMK party in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Rajavarman didn't get an AIADMK ticket to contest this Assembly election from his seat.

BJP leaders Tathagata Roy and Shamik Bhattacharya reach SSKM hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal where Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee is admitted. 

30 shanties were gutted in a fire at a slum near Bhagat Singh Colony in Jalandhar, Punjab. No casualties have been reported, said Fire Station Officer Jaswant Singh.

Activist Shubham Kar Chaudhari moves Delhi court for an anticipatory bail in Toolkit case, hearing to take place on Friday. Recently, he was granted transit bail by the Bombay High Court.

A CRPF jawan died by suicide in Badgam, Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday morning. He was mentally disturbed and was not assigned any weapon. While others were busy, he took another jawan's weapon and shot himself. Jawan hailed from Kerala and had joined back last week after a long leave. 

The portals of Kedarnath Temple to open on May 17, according to Uttarakhand Char Dham Devasthanam Management Board. 

Prime Minister Modi spoke at the launch of the kindle version of Swami Chidbhavananda's Bhagavad Gita. Here are the highlights from his speech: 

• The Gita makes us think. It inspires us to question. It encourages debate and keeps our minds open. Anybody who is inspired by Gita will always be compassionate by nature and democratic in temperament. 
• In the recent past when the world needed medicines, India did whatever it could to provide them. India is humbled that Made in India vaccines are going around the world. We want to heal as well as help humanity. This is exactly what Gita teaches us. 
• At the core of Aatmnirbhar Bharat is to create wealth and values, not only for ourselves but for the larger humanity. We believe that an Aatmnirbhar Bharat is good for the world.

The idol of Mahatma Gandhi was found damaged in the premises of a school in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.

"No one was seen crossing the school boundary and watchman was on duty till 8 pm. Earlier, an incident was reported where monkeys broke the arm of the idol and it was repaired," said Mandsaur SP Siddharth Choudhary.

There is a possibility that it was done by monkeys. A case has been registered. We are investigating different aspects.