Breaking highlghts: In Punjab, only AAP CM pick Bhagwant Mann to take oath Wednesday, MLAs will take oath later

Four terrorist associates belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) were arrested from Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said. This comes a day after two JeM terrorists were killed in an encounter in the south Kashmir district's Chewa Kallan area, while another was apprehended alive. The militants were holed up inside a local madrasa.

Punjab CM designate Bhagwant Mann to tender his resignation from MP post on March 14 in Delhi. He is a Member of Parliament from the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency. 

After a grave setback in the just-concluded assembly election, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a farmers’ platform that fiercely opposed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will hold its first deliberations in the national capital on March 14 to discuss future plans, especially to re-start its agitation.

The Indian Railways on Sunday announced that due to some Static and Dynamic Data Compression, all the services of the Delhi Passenger Reservation System (PRS) will be unavailable for a few hours between March 13 to 14, reports ANI.

In Punjab, only AAP CM pick Bhagwant Mann to take oath Wednesday, MLAs will take oath later, reports ANI.

A team of the Mumbai Police’s cyber cell reached the residence of the leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly and former chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis, on Sunday to record his statement in the transfer posting case.

Former Union ministers Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo will be TMC candidates for Loksabha by-election from Asansol and Assembly by-election from Ballygunge, respectively, reports news agency ANI.

The Azad Maidan police have registered a case against Union minister Narayan Rane's sons Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nitesh Rane and Nilesh Rane for allegedly connecting name of NCP chief Sharad Pawar to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 hit north-northwest of Andaman and Nicobar's Diglipur on Sunday, informed the National Center for Seismology (NSC).

KT Rama Rao, Telangana’s information and technology minister, has warned of cutting power and water supplies to cantonment areas if the inconvenience caused to citizens does not stop.

India reported 3,116 new Covid cases and 47 related deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry data. The fresh infections recorded on Saturday is the lowest daily rise since May 2020.

China on Saturday recorded nearly 3,400 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases, the highest in two years, according to the country's National Health Commission.

Kurdish security forces said that 12 ballistic missiles were fired at Arbil, the capital of autonomous Kurdistan, from outside Iraq, reported AFP