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• 5 Mar 2022, 10:23:17 PM IST

  Delhi reports 274 positive cases, zero deaths and 390 recoveries

• 5 Mar 2022, 09:56:25 PM IST

  HANSA-NG, India’s first indigenous flying trainer, completes sea-level trials

  India’s first indigenous flying trainer 'HANSA-NG' designed and developed by CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, has successfully completed the sea-level trials at Puducherry from February 19 to March 5.

• 5 Mar 2022, 08:51:51 PM IST

  ‘Whenever BJP see any Muslim party worker they link them with Dawood’: Sharad Pawar on Nawab Malik's arrest

  Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said 'Nawab Malik's arrest is politically motivated. Whenever they (BJP) see any Muslim party worker they link them with Dawood...PM Modi should explain why Narayan Rane didn't resign when he was arrested as BJP keeps asking for Nawab Malik's resignation', reports ANI. 

• 5 Mar 2022, 07:41:40 PM IST

  Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani makes first public appearance

  The Taliban acting interior minister — designated a terrorist by the US — said in a rare public appearance Saturday that security police guilty of misconduct in Afghanistan were being penalised after a string of abuse allegations.

• 5 Mar 2022, 07:04:20 PM IST

  Covid-19: Maharashtra reports 535 new cases, 963 recoveries and 10 deaths 

• 5 Mar 2022, 06:03:57 PM IST

  Anti-money-laundering body puts UAE on global ''gray'' list

  A global body focused on fighting money laundering has placed the United Arab Emirates on its so-called “gray list” over concerns that the global trade hub isn't doing enough to stop criminals and militants from hiding wealth there, reports PTI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 04:59:54 PM IST

  Court dismisses Tahir Hussain's bail plea in Northeast Delhi violence case

  A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of ex-MCD councillor Tahir Hussain (suspended AAP leader) in a money laundering case registered by the ED in connection with the alleged funding of North East Delhi violence, reports ANI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 04:35:50 PM IST

  Maha: Civic authorities to intensify vaccination for infants, toddlers in Bhiwandi

  Vaccination drive for children aged up to two years old will be intensified in the limits of the Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation (BNMC) in Maharashtra’s Thane district in the next three months, reports PTI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 04:04:59 PM IST

  Islamic State claims responsibility for Shia mosque attack in Pakistan

  Pakistan's Interior Minister on Saturday vowed to arrest the masterminds behind a deadly suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State terror group on a crowded Shia mosque during Friday prayers, reports PTI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 03:51:59 PM IST

  CGST officials bust fake input tax credit racket of ₹13 crore, one arrested

  A team of CGST Commissionerate, Raigad, Mumbai Zone, busted a fake input tax credit (ITC) racket and arrested the proprietor of a Kalamboli-based firm- Zaid Enterprises, reports ANI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 03:37:13 PM IST

  All India Insurance employees including various other orgs to protest against the proposed IPO in LIC

• 5 Mar 2022, 03:09:27 PM IST

  Mother Dairy to hike milk prices in Delhi-NCR by ₹2 per litre from Sunday

  Leading milk supplier Mother Dairy has increased milk prices in Delhi-NCR and other cities by ₹2 per litre with effect from Sunday due to higher input costs, reports PTI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 03:00:02 PM IST

  Delhi HC grants bail to accused in alleged purchasing of ganja on Telegram App

  The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to an accused allegedly involved in purchasing ganja from the online social media group created on Telegram App, reports ANI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 02:30:08 PM IST

  Five with links with jehadi group affiliated to Al Qaeda arrested in Assam: Director General of Police B J Mahanta

  Five persons have been arrested in Assam for their suspected links with a Jihadi outfit of Bangladesh having affiliation to Al-Qaid, reports news agency PTI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 02:09:51 PM IST

  PM Modi to flag off Pune Metro on March 6

  “The project will provide world-class infrastructure for urban mobility in Pune; the foundation stone of this project was laid by PM in 2016,” news agency ANI quoted Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying.

• 5 Mar 2022, 02:08:04 PM IST

  Several students are still stuck in Kharkiv, say evacuated students

• 5 Mar 2022, 12:25:38 PM IST

  Worried about SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav: Sena leader Sanjay Raut

• 5 Mar 2022, 11:55:36 AM IST

  Ex-NSE boss Chitra Ramakrishna's anticipatory bail rejected

  Special CBI court dismissed anticipatory bail plea of former managing director and chief executive officer of National Stock Exchange (NSE) Chitra Ramkrishna in connection with the NSE co-location case, reports ANI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 11:26:25 AM IST

  Saudi Arabia hikes oil prices as crude surges on Ukraine war

  Saudi Arabia raised oil prices for all regions after crude surged in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to more than $115 a barrel, reports Bloomberg.

  State-controlled Saudi Aramco hiked its Arab Light crude for next month’s shipments to Asia to $4.95 a barrel above the benchmark it uses. That’s an increase of $2.15 a barrel from March and the highest premium for the key grade since Bloomberg started compiling data in 2000. The energy company had been expected to raise pricing by $1.70, according to a survey of traders and refiners.

• 5 Mar 2022, 10:47:55 AM IST

  China to handle Covid clusters in a ‘targeted, science-based’ manner

  China will cope with local Covid-19 outbreaks in a "science-based, targeted" manner to maintain the normal order of life, according to a government work report released at the open of the country's annual meeting of parliament on Saturday.

• 5 Mar 2022, 10:29:23 AM IST

  Blast outside expelled BJP leader’s residence in Manipur

  Unidentified miscreants lobbed a crude bomb at the residence of expelled BJP leader Ch Bijoy in Lamphel area in Manipur’s Imphal West district, police said as per news agency PTI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 09:56:06 AM IST

  National Medical body allows foreign medical graduates to apply to complete internships in India

  Amid the ongoing evacuation of Indian medical students from Ukraine, National Medical Commission (NMC) will allow foreign medical graduates with incomplete internships due to compelling situations like the Covid-19 & war to apply to complete internships in India if they clear the screening test FMGE, reports ANI.

• 5 Mar 2022, 09:14:24 AM IST

  India reports 5,921 new Covid cases, 289 deaths in last 24 hours

  India reported 5,921 new case of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. With 63,878 active cases in the country, the caseload has further dipped to 0.15%.  India further logged 289 deaths in last 24 hours, taking the total Covi-19 death toll to 5,14,878. The recovery rate remains stable at 98.65%.

• 5 Mar 2022, 07:59:22 AM IST

  China's military budget to increase by 7.1% in 2022

  China's military budget, the second largest in the world after the United States, is set to increase by 7.1% in 2022, Beijing announced on Saturday as per news agency AFP.

  Some 1.45 trillion yuan ($230 billion) has been set aside for national defence, a government budget report said, as part of a rise in spending for departments to "ensure that they are able to perform their duties".

• 5 Mar 2022, 07:10:41 AM IST

  Pakistan continues to remain on FATF's grey list

  The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has once again retained Pakistan on the increased monitoring list, also known as the "grey list" and called the country to work on "complex money laundering investigations and prosecutions." 

  This decision was made after the conclusion of the four-day FATF Plenary from March 1-4, reports ANI.