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The court’s order came weeks after Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party was ousted from power by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court on Tuesday ordered the authorities to register an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders for allegedly misusing public funds to put up large party hoardings in Dwarka in 2019. The matter was heard by additional chief judicial magistrate Neha Mittal. The court’s order came weeks after Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party was ousted from power by the Bharatiya Janata Party after over 10 years of rule in the national capital.…

Pakistan train hijack: BLA said in a statement gunmen bombed the railway track before storming aboard the train. Armed militants belonging to the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) stormed a train in Pakistan’s restive mountainous region on Tuesday, taking scores of passengers hostage. The BLA, which seeks independence for the Balochistan province bordering both Afghanistan and Iran, said it had killed 20 soldiers and shot down a drone. The group has claimed to have taken 182 hostages. “Civilian passengers, particularly women, children, the elderly, and Baloch citizens, have been released safely and given a secure route,” it said in a statement.…

Mutual expulsions of diplomats have become increasingly common since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russia on Monday expelled two British diplomats from their embassy in Moscow for allegedly engaging in spying activities that threatened its security. The UK denied the accusations as “malicious and baseless”. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) statement accusing the two British diplomats of providing false personal data while seeking permission to enter the country and of indulging in “alleged intelligence and subversive activities that threatened Russia’s security.” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a separate statement that it summoned a British embassy…

Several X users complained about not being able to load pages and refresh the timelines. The Elon Musk-led social media platform X (formerly Twitter) suffered second outage for several users across the world. According to DownDetector, which tracks tech outages across the world, at least 2,028 complaints about X snag were received by 3:20 pm. Several users complained about not being able to load pages and refresh the timelines. “Twitter went down for an hour but seems to be okay now?” an X user posted on social media. “Everyone going to X now Twitter is down,”@huzy14w, an X user, posted.…

Ranya Rao’s alleged involvement in the gold smuggling case has triggered a political slugfest in Karnataka. Ranya Rao, a Kannada actress accused of smuggling gold into India from Dubai, told a court that she was verbally tortured and threatened by the officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). The actress, the stepdaughter of a senior IPS officer, was arrested last week while allegedly smuggling gold bars worth ₹14.56 crore at the Bengaluru airport. She was today sent to judicial custody till March 24. Ranya Rao told the court today that she was “traumatised and emotionally broken” in the DRI…

The notice comes amid the ongoing debate over the proposed three-language formula under the New Education Policy. DMK MP Kanimozhi on Monday filed a notice for breach of parliamentary privilege against union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in response to his remarks on the National Education Policy issue. The notice comes amid the ongoing debate over the proposed three-language formula under the NEP, which has sparked an intense row between the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government. Before filing the notice, Kanimozhi said the DMK government had raised concerns over NEP and refused complete acceptance of the policy. “They (central government)…

Lalit Modi is wanted by Indian law enforcement agencies in connection with allegations of embezzlement of crores of rupees during his stint as the IPL chief. Former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Kumar Modi on Monday took to social media to share pictures of him from Vanuatu, after the island nation’s prime minister Jotham Napat directed the Citizenship Commission to cancel the passport issued to him. “Vanuatu a beautiful country. You must put on your bucket list. Away from all the pollution and noise. Truly heavenly country,” Modi posted on X. On March 7, Modi filed an application with…

According to rescue officials, the deceased was found trapped in a machine inside the collapsed section of the tunnel. One body has been recovered from the debris inside the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) Tunnel in Telangana’s Nagarkunool, where a collapse on February 22 trapped eight workers. “We found one dead body stuck in the machine, with only the hand visible. The rescue teams are currently cutting the machine to retrieve the stuck body,” said the unidentified official. The rescue operation inside the partially collapsed tunnel entered its 16th day on Sunday. Earlier today, Cadaver dogs were roped in to…

Elon Musk’s comments comes at a time when the future of the 32-member NATO, which will mark its 76th anniversary in April, hangs in the balance. Elon Musk has pushed for the United States’ exit from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), saying that it “doesn’t make sense for America to pay for the defense of Europe.” The billionaire, who co-chairs the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was responding to an X post that called for US to “Exit NATO *now*!” “We really should,” Musk said. On March 2, Musk had responded a post on X which said,”It’s time to…

The DMK MPs also agreed to work with the Opposition’s INDIA bloc and other democratic forces to uphold Tamil Nadu’s rights on delimitation. Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Sunday chaired a meeting of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MPs on the issues of delimitation and National Education Policy, and resolved to bring together parties from “affected states” to “resist attempts that penalise population control”. The DMK MPs also agreed to work with the opposition’s INDIA bloc and other democratic forces to uphold Tamil Nadu’s rights on delimitation. “At today’s DMK MPs meeting, we resolved to: Stand united in…