Breaking News, March 11 | HIGHLIGHTS

Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir will begin fasting for the holy month of Ramzan on Tuesday after the crescent was sighted on Monday evening, Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir Nasirul Islam said.

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Ricther scale hit Western Nepal on Monday evening. However, there was no report of any damage or casuality.

A fire broke out in a three-storey residential building in Kamathipura in south Mumbai at 10pm on Monday, though there was no report of injuries to anyone, a civic official said.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has challenged a Delhi High Court order upholding the summons issued to him as an accused in a criminal defamation case, whether he wanted to give an apology to the complainant in the matter.

The Delhi Police apprehended seven people, including a woman, and claimed to have busted a sex racket in Jagat Puri area of Shahdara.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai on Monday said the state unit's election committee has passed a resolution urging members of the Gandhi family to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli and Amethi.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Maharashtra government application seeking a stay on a Bombay High Court order that acquitted former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and others in the Maoist links case.

A special NIA court in Mumbai on Monday issued a bailable warrant against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, for failing to appear before it despite repeated warnings.

PM Modi addressed the gathering on the occasion and said that projects worth Rs 10 lakh crore have either been inaugurated or laid the foundation stone of only in the three months of 2024.

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will consider submission for early listing of a petition seeking to restrain the Centre from appointing new election commissioners as per a 2023 law, the provisions of which have already been challenged in the apex court.

The Lok Sabha election in West Bengal is all set to witness some interesting battles on various seats including in Bishnupur where TMC and BJP have fielded former husband and wife in the constituency. The battle of exes will be fought between TMC's Sujata Mondal and BJP’s Saumitra Khan. Khan’s name was listed in the BJP’s first list of candidates released last week while Mondal’s name was announced in TMC’s Kolkata rally on Sunday (March 10).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 19 km long Haryana Section of Dwarka Expressway and lay the foundation stone of 112 National Highway projects spread across the country worth about Rs 1 lakh crore on Monday (March 11). He also held a roadshow ahead of the inauguration.

The Congress on Monday moved the Delhi High Court challenging the dismissal of its plea by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) against the imposition of penalties for discrepancies in certain tax returns.

Police have registered a case against a garment shop owner in Navi Mumbai on the charge of sexually harassing a 34-year-old woman customer, an official said on Monday. The victim went to the shop of the 36-year-old accused in Airoli area on March 9.

Maharashtra Congress leaders Vijay Wadettiwar, Balasaheb Thorat and Varsha Gaikwad today will meet DGP Maharashtra Rashmi Shukla to request enhanced security for Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the state.

Police have arrested a 34-year-old tanker driver for allegedly pilfering petrol from the vehicle in Navi Mumbai township of Maharashtra, an official said on Monday.

After BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik issued a one-line statement saying that "rumours" and "lies" were worst aspects of politics, the BJP top brass called its state unit leaders and those in charge of elections in Odisha to Delhi for a discussion.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla arrives in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh for the darshan of Ram Lalla at the Ram Temple.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Student's Union (JNUSU) elections will be held on 22nd March; results on 24th March.

BJP will hold its Central Election Committee meeting today evening at the party headquarters in Delhi.

The President will attend the National Day celebrations of Mauritius on 12th March, as Chief Guest.

Along with the CM, many BJP officials and leaders will offer prayers in the Ram Mandir.

Stone pelting took place at Akbar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow on Sunday (March 11) during an anti-encroachment drive by the police and administration who faced an alleged attack by the residents of the area, the officials said. The alleged incident occurred in the evening when a team of the Lucknow Development Authority and the administration, accompanied by the police, was demolishing illegal structures in the locality along the Faizabad Road.

The state general secretary of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party's (SBSP) women cell Nandini Rajbhar was allegedly stabbed to death over a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar, the police said on Sunday (March 10). The incident took place at around 3 pm yesterday at her residence in the Kotwali Khalilabad area. The police said that she suffered multiple stab wounds on her body. Nandini, 30, was allegedly stabbed by unidentified people over the dispute that was reported nearly 10 days ago, IG Ram Krishna Bhardwaj said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 19 km long Haryana Section of Dwarka Expressway and lay the foundation stone of 112 National Highway projects spread across the country worth about Rs 1 lakh crore on Monday (March 11). He will visit Gurugram today at around 12 noon and participate in a public gathering.