Breaking News, March 4

Election Commission of India wrote to West Bengal Chief Election Officer stating that no person from civic police or green police or student police shall be engaged in any election-related duty.

Income Tax Department carried out search & seizure operations today on two groups of civil contractors in Southern Tamil Nadu. Searches & surveys were conducted in 18 premises mainly in Madurai & Ramnad districts. Based on intelligence inputs about the existence of cash, which is likely to be distributed for election purposes, searches were mounted on the business groups. The action resulted in the finding of unaccounted cash of Rs 3 crores which was seized: IT Department

Narcotics Cell arrests three drug traffickers including two women with 306 grams of heroin in Delhi.

The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 1.77 crores today, says Union Health Ministry

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at BJP Headquarters for party's Central Election Committee meet.

The first meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee to finalise names of candidates for the first two phases of polls in West Bengal and Assam assembly elections to be held on 6th March

West Bengal: A fire broke out at a hotel in Darjeeling. Three fire tenders reached the spot and doused the fire. No casualties or injuries reported. Cause of fire is yet to be ascertained. 

Tamil Nadu BJP President L Murugan writes to EC requesting to restrain Rahul Gandhi from campaigning in the State for violating the Model Code of Conduct and to issue a direction to register FIR against Gandhi under 124A IPC.

• Pakistan PM Imran Khan nominates Sadiq Sanjrani as PTI's candidate for Chairman of the Senate: Pakistan's Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz
• Pakistan's National Assembly session summoned for Saturday for PM Imran Khan to seek vote of confidence from the parliament, reports Dawn newspaper

A BJP delegation comprising of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and BJP leaders Bhupender Yadav, Om Pathak, Shishir Bhajoria & others to meet Election Commission of India officers at Nirvachan Sadan today.

Central Board of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) recommends 8.50% rate of interest to its subscribers for year 2020-21, said Ministry of Labour & Employment

Bengaluru ranked top on government's Ease of Living Index; Pune second, Ahmedabad ranked third among 111 cities

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman receives her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj

Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur took the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in AIIMS, Delhi