Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of March 16
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07:25 pm: Britain claiming Putin ordered ex-spy poisoning 'unforgiveable': Kremlin (AFP)
07:18 pm: FM says Centre had agreed to the mode suggested by Andhra for receiving special package funds but the state did not revert with details (PTI)
07:14 pm: We have been waiting endlessly for a response from Andhra Pradesh to resolve the special package issue, says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (PTI)
07:11 pm: RBI says current account deficit widens to USD 13.5 bn or 2 per cent of GDP in Q3 from USD 8 bn or 1.4 per ecnt a year ago
07:04 pm: During meeting there was a feeling, that maybe the time has come that Punjab unit should function on its own, however we couldn't have a consensus, so the decision has been deferred: Kanwar Sandhu, AAP after the meeting of AAP+ MLAs on Arvind Kejriwal's apology to Bikram Majithia (ANI)
06:58 pm: Rajasthan: Police in Ajmer busted a gang which used to clone fingerprints and send fake candidates for examinations (ANI)
06:51 pm: Court in Chandigarh holds Jagtar Singh Tara guilty for assassination of former Punjab CM Beant Singh. Quantum of sentence to be pronounced tomorrow (ANI)
06:40 pm: CM has said so many times to build an accommodation for priests who come for Kumbh but the officials are misleading. If there is a permanent accommodation then the govt will not have to spend money after every 12 years. If they don't do it we'll boycott: Mahant Narendra Giri (ANI)
06:34 pm: We recently lost a renowned scientist, cosmologist Stephen Hawking. He emphatically said on record that our Vedas might have a theory superior to that of Einstein’s E=mc2: Dr.Harsh Vardhan, Union Science and Technology Minister (ANI)
06:25 pm: Seven US troops killed in Iraq helicopter crash: US official (AFP)
06:11 pm: RBI cites larger trade deficit at USD 44.1 b and halving of FDI inflows at USD 4.3 b for higher CAD in Q3 (PTI)
06:00 pm: Wrote to PM Modi seeking time on sealing issue but he never responded, it is a two-minute job for him to solve this crises. If sealing is not stopped by 31st March we will sit on strike with the traders: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in Assembly (ANI)
05:56 pm: We will begin our Satyagraha on 23 March on issues of farmers: Anna Hazare (ANI)
05:51 pm: Central Bureau of Investigation arrested an Assistant Manager, North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Limited (NERAMAC) for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh. Case registered under section 7 of PC Act, 1988 (ANI)
05:47 pm: We will wait for anti-corruption unit's report on Mohammed Shami: Indian Premier League (IPL) Chairman Rajeev Shukla (ANI)
05:40 pm: All our together, we will talk to them, they will understand: Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia over the question of resignation of AAP Punjab leaders and Arvind Kejriwal's apology letter to Bikram Singh Majithia (ANI)
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05:20 pm: Iraqi asylum seeker guilty of London Tube bombing (AFP)
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