Highlights: Rahul Gandhi to address election rally in Meghalaya tomorrow

The Reserve Bank of India has announced that all international travellers visiting India will be able to make local payments using Unified Payments Interface (UPI) while they are in the country. Read more

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday alleged that MP Shrikant Shinde, son of Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, has given a contract to attack him. Read more

The Haryana Police on Tuesday registered an FIR against 30-40 Rajasthan cops in connection with the killings of two Muslim men in Bhiwani district of Haryana. Read more

Union defence minister Rajnath Singh had a conversation with UK Secretary of State for Defence on matters related to future growth of bilateral defence relationship.

Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai along with party workers holds a candlelight march against the DMK government in Chennai

A junior doctor in Assam's Dibrugarh district has been beaten mercilessly following a Facebook comment. The incident happened at Boiragimath area on Monday evening, police said.

Congress leaders and party workers staged a massive protest in front of the Enforcement Directorate( ED) office in Raipur on Tuesday against the raids at the premises of over eight Congress leaders.

The Congress accused that the raids are going on at the behest of Bharatiya Janata Party and the aim to harass Congress leaders of state.

Around 5,000 leaders and workers gathered in front of the ED office and raised slogans against BJP and the agency.

According to the Associated Press, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow is suspending its participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty and that Russia stands ready to resume atomic weapons tests if the United States does so.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at 76 locations today in Punjab, Haryana, UP, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi/ NCR region to dismantle the nexus between terrorists, gangsters and drug smugglers/traffickers based in India and abroad.

The damage on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway in and around subsidence hit Joshimath continues to worsen, with fresh cracks reported by locals in 10 km stretch of Joshimath-Marwari and a ten feet deep pit developing near a railway guest house, people known to the matter said.

The development came amid the government stepping up preparations for the Badrinath yatra scheduled to begin in April this year. The Badrinath shrine, is one of the four ancient pilgrimage sites referred to as 'Char Dham' which also included Yamunotri, Gangotri and Kedarnath, will open on April 27.

However, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) which has been keeping a watch on the developments said the cracks found on the highway at various spots are “not new” and wouldn’t affect the upcoming Badrinath yatra.

Punjab budget session to commence on March 3. Budget to be presented on March 10, announces CM Bhagwant Mann after a meeting of the state cabinet.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is delivering his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address on Tuesday, a speech many anticipate will set the tone for the year ahead and shed light on how the Kremlin sees its bogged-down war in Ukraine. (AP)

A four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs at Amberpet areas in Hyderabad on Sunday afternoon, the police said.

The visuals of the gory incident, captured in the closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, that went viral on the social media on Monday showed the boy identified as Pradeep, being surrounded by stray dogs which attacked him from all sides, pulling him down on the road and mauling him.

Two persons were kidnapped from the residence of a Naga People's Front (NPF) candidate and a vehicle was torched in Mon district of poll-bound Nagaland, a top police officer said on Tuesday. One person was later released by the kidnappers while an operation was on to rescue the other, he said.

“There was an incident of two persons being taken away from the residence of the Naga Peoples Front (NPF) candidate from Tizit assembly constituency last night,” Mon superintendent of police T Uniel Kichu told PTI.

SC agrees to hear plea by Uddhav Thackeray to restrain Eknath Shinde camp from taking over Shiv Sena properties, bank accounts.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong witnessed the launch of cross-border connectivity between the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of India and PayNow of Singapore via video conferencing. 

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Income Tax department is conducting raids at Uflex Limited. 64 locations have been covered in this search. Searches are going on Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand & Himachal Pradesh, ANI reported.

In a major crackdown against gangster syndicate, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) launchred searches at over 70 locations across several states on Tuesday.

The searches were being conducted in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Read more

The United States and its allies urged the UN Security Council to condemn North Korea's unlawful ballistic missile launches, but China and Russia blamed the US for escalating tensions with stepped-up military exercises targeting Pyongyang, reported AP. 

Three persons were detained for allegedly spreading rumours regarding presence of a bomb in Hazrat Nizamuddin - M.G.R.Chennai Central Garib Rath Express train late on Monday night, officials said.

As per the police, Hazrat Nizamuddin - M.G.R.Chennai Central Garib Rath Express (12612), was stopped at the Dholpur station in Rajasthan for three hours, after a passenger claimed that there was a bomb on the train. (ANI)