Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of March 12
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11:57 am: Congress President Rahul Gandhi approves proposal for the candidature of Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Lekhram Sahu to contest the Rajya Sabha election from Bihar and Chhattisgarh respectively (ANI)
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11:46 am: Supreme Court asks Center to file its response on a lawyer's plea, seeking probe into the alleged leak of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) question papers leak scam (ANI)
11:38 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur to inaugurate a Solar Power Plant (ANI)
11:32 am: TTV Dhinakaran files caveat in the Supreme Court, in connection with the Delhi High Court's order over party symbol matter (ANI)
11:29 am: Application for recall of the order is not maintainable since it seeks reopening of the case on merits: CBI to Supreme Court (PTI)
11:28 am: CBI seeks dismissal of Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict's plea in Supreme Court for recall of its May 1999 order upholding his conviction (PTI)
11:25 am: NYPD spokesman confirms all five passengers in helicopter crash into New York's East River are dead; pilot was able to escape (The Associated Press)
11:23 am: Supreme Court asks Gujarat govt to respond within six weeks to the plea of Bilkis Bano, who had sought enhancement of compensation in the gang-rape case (ANI)
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11:18 am: Delhi High Court grants bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in the Delhi Chief Secretary assault case (ANI)
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11:10 am: RJD leaders Manoj Jha and Ashfaque Karim file nomination papers for Rajya Sabha in Bihar's Patna (ANI)
11:06 am: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12 pm following uproar over the issue of Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh (ANI)
11:02 am: This is not an issue of the Maharashtra farmers alone, but of farmers all over India: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on All India Kisan Sabha protest in Maharashtra (ANI)
11:01 am: 16 Garuds reached Tamil Nadu's Kurangani forest at 3 am and rescued few people at night. At the moment, the garuds are trying to lift the dead bodies to a higher plain. 2 helicopters will bring the bodies down. One helicopter has doused the fire: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (ANI)
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10:51 am: French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Varanasi
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