Highlights: KCR's daughter K Kavitha leaves ED's office after 9 hours of questioning in Delhi liquor policy case

Fire broke out at a paint shop in Jaitpur in Southeast Delhi, earlier on Saturday, ANI reported. 11 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and a dead body was recovered from the shop.

Two cheetahs, a male cheetah Oban and female cheetah Asha out of the 8 cheetahs that were released on September 17 in Kuno National Park from Namibia were released into the open forest on Saturday.

BRS MLC and Telangana chief minister KCR's daughter K Kavitha left the Enforcement Directorate office after she was questioned for nine hours over Delhi liquor policy case.

Forest fire broke out at Bagwan near Maletha in Tehri district on the Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway in Uttarakhand on Saturday.

The Rudraprayag district administration on Saturday started preparations for the Chardham Yatra which is set to begin on April 22.

"The district administration has started clearing the snow at the Kedarnath Dham and the pedestrian routes of Kedarnath," informed the officials.

In an earlier event, the Uttarakhand Tourism Development Council (UTDC) said that it would issue tokens for darshan during the Chardham Yatra, reported ANI. 

The Indian government has appointed Siddhartha Mohanty as the interim chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) for three months starting March 14, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Mohanty is presently a managing director of the country's largest insurance company. The term of incumbent chairman MR Kumar ends on March 13, reported Reuters. 

The Uttar Pradesh Congress will stage a protest against alleged rising inflation, unemployment among other "raging issues" outside the Raj Bhawan here on Monday, the party said.

Talking to reporters, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Brijlal Khabri on Saturday said statistics indicate that the graph of injustice and atrocities has increased in the state but the BJP government is completely asleep.

Industrialist friends of the government are being helped with public money while the vice-chancellors of universities under the protection of the government are indulging in corruption, he alleged. (PTI)

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a letter to the States and Union Territories on Saturday expressed his concerns over the rising trend in other Influenza-like Illnesses & Severe Acute Respiratory Illnesses (ILIs/SARIs) being witnessed in some States/UTs across the country.

In the letter Bhushan said that it is important to raise community awareness regarding adherence to respiratory and hand hygiene, promoting early reporting of symptoms, and limiting the contact of those people who are suffering from respiratory illness, reported ANI. 

Union minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday described the spread of misinformation and lies during the COVID-19 pandemic as "infodemic", and said thousands of people lost their lives due to it across the world. Thakur was speaking at the Youth 20 (Y20) consultation meeting organised at a private university in Pune city, reported PTI. 

Three days after the oath ceremony of the newly elected government in Meghalaya, the cabinet ministers were given their respective portfolios on Saturday, with chief minister Conrad Sangma keeping finance, forests and environment, information technology departments. Read more.

Justice Munib Akhtar of the Supreme Court of Pakistan addresses the meeting of Chief Justices of the Supreme Courts of Member States of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), via video conferencing.

BRS workers and supporters protest against Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay for his reported derogatory comments against BRS MLC K Kavitha. The protesters also burnt his effigy.

Net direct tax collection as of March 10 reaches ₹13.73 lakh crore, 83 pc of the revised target for FY23: CBDT

K Kavitha has reached the ED office for questioning in excise policy probe.

CBI has summoned Tejashwi Yadav today for questioning in land-for-jobs case. This comes a day after his Delhi's residence was raided by ED in the same case.

In the wake of the accident off the Mumbai coast two days ago, the defence forces have halted the operations of the ALH Dhruv helicopters till the time investigators find the reason for the incident and precautionary checks are carried out.

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence intercepted 11 pax who brought 6.62 kgs of gold from Sharjah on an Air Arabia flight on March 10. It was recovered from their pockets, shoes & rectum. The gold is worth ₹3.8 crore, ANI reported.

"1.300 kg of heroin from a vehicle in Karimganj along the Assam-Mizoram border. We recovered 100 soap cases containing drugs from the secret chambers of the vehicle," SP Karimganj told news agency ANI. Three people were apprehended in the matter.

Meta Platforms is planning additional layoffs to be announced in multiple rounds over the next few months, which could match the 13% job cut tally from last year.

MSCI ESG Research said on Friday it recently changed some of its environmental, social and governance assessments of Adani Group entities, after the Indian conglomerate was caught up in a short-selling storm in recent weeks. Read more.

China's Xi Jinping who secured his third term as president on Friday, nominated Li Qiang to become premier, media reports said.

US regulators on Friday (local time) shut down Silicon Valley Bank, as markets fretted over possible contagion from the biggest banking failure since the 2008 financial crisis.

“Modi government is making a sinister attempt to kill democracy by misusing ED-CBI against opposition leaders,” said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on ED searches on premises of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad's family.