Breaking News, February 24 | HIGHLIGHTS

The biennial elections to two Rajya Sabha seats from Jharkhand will be held on March 21, an official said on Saturday. Two Rajya Sabha MPs from the state - Samir Oraon of the BJP and Diraj Prasad Sahu of the Congress - will complete their tenure on May 3, necessitating the conduct of fresh elections to fill up the posts, the Election Commission said.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra reached Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr.

A TMC delegation, which visited trouble-torn Sandeshkhali on Saturday, assured people that they will get justice and no wrongdoers will be spared. The delegation comprising Sujit Bose and Partha Bhowmick, ministers of the West Bengal government, visited the area and spoke to the locals.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday travelled by a local train from Ghatkopar in Mumbai to Kalyan in neighbouring Thane district. The minister shared on X a few pictures of her journey by the local train, lifeline of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday inaugurated the fifth campus of the Birla group-run engineering institute BITS Pilani, with which the national institute of eminence also diversifies into law, management and design. Located in the nearby Kalayan area of the megapolis, the Rs 1,600-crore campus spread across 60 acres will accommodate 5,000 students at full capacity, said Kumar Mangalam Birla, the group chairman and the chancellor of the institute.

Members of the BJP Kisan Morcha on Saturday took out a procession here to protest against the alleged atrocities by Trinamool Congress leaders at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal. The march originated from Girish Park in north Kolkata and treaded various adjoining areas.

Mutilated bodies of two railway gangmen, engaged in track maintenance work, were found on a railway track in Jharkhand's Bokaro district, police said. Their bodies were found near Telo railway station, around 120 km from Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, in the early hours of Saturday.

In a major shot in the arm for the saffron party, a three-time Congress MLA from Tamil Nadu, S Vijayadharani, joined the BJP on Saturday (February 24) and asserted that the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very important for the country. She is the MLA from Vilavancode, which is part of the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat, a constituency the BJP has won in the past.

The National Investigation Agency on Saturday attached properties of two people accused in a narco-terror case in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday announced the cancellation of the recently held examination to recruit police constables in the state.

AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami garlands the statue of party's former General Secretary and former CM of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa on the occasion of her 76th birth anniversary.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an e-PACS event and said, "Cooperative sector is instrumental in shaping a resilient economy and propelling the development of rural areas."

Home Minister Amit Shah addresses the public at the inauguration of 'World's largest food storage scheme in the cooperative sector and computerization of PACS'

"A 19-year-old train attendant, Deepak Parte arrested by CSMT Railway Police for allegedly molesting a college student. The case was registered by Thane Railway Police and the case transferred to CSMT Police. Further investigation is underway," informed the Mumbai Railway Police.

Haryana Police fired tear gas shells at protesting farmers in Haryana's Hisar late on Thursday night.