Highlights: Delhi reports 274 new Covid-19 cases, zero deaths

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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".

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.