News Highlights: SC to deliver verdict on pleas on AIADMK leadership tussle tomorrow

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SC to deliver verdict on pleas on AIADMK leadership tussle tomorrow

Supreme Court to deliver its verdict tomorrow, 23rd February on a batch of pleas relating to the tussle between former Chief Ministers O Panneerselvam (OPS) and Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) over AIADMK leadership.

PM Modi to address 12 post-budget webinars from February 23

Biden meets NATO leaders as Putin talks up China ties

US President Joe Biden was due to meet eastern European leaders on Wednesday to discuss support for Ukraine, while President Vladimir Putin held talks with China's top diplomat in Moscow.

Jitendra Singh lays foundation stone of Rs 120-cr hospital

Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi appointed as Drugs Controller General of India

Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi was appointed as the Drugs Controller General of India, ANI reported.

Setback for Uddhav Sena as SC refuses to stay EC order on party name and symbol

"They have succeeded before EC. We can't stay the order at this stage," says Supreme Court while refusing to suspend the Election Commission's February 17 order recognising Eknath Shinde group as Shiv Sena with 'bow and arrow' symbol.

SC begins hearing Uddhav Thackeray's plea against EC order on Shiv Sena party name and symbol

Supreme Court begins hearing the plea filed by Uddhav Thackeray against the Election Commission order on the "Shiv Sena" party name and "Bow and Arrow" symbol to CM Eknath Shinde

Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 hits Nepal

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter Scale hit Bajura, Nepal around 1:45 pm today: Nepal's National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center

Australian wicketkeeper-batter Alyssa Healy to lead UP Warriorz in WPL

Gujarat High Court orders Oreva Group to pay Rs 10 lakh to kin of Morbi tragedy victims

The Gujarat High Court Wednesday ordered the clock-making firm Oreva Group to pay Rs 10 lakh as interim compensation to each family of 135 victims who were killed in the suspension bridge collapse, and Rs 2 lakh to 56 individuals who sustained injuries. The amount is in addition to Rs 10 lakh already paid by the state government.

Case against 3,500 BJP leaders, caders in Tamil Nadu over candle light march

Ruckus over renaming of Tipu Sultan Circle in Karnataka's Yadgir

Maharashtra to 'investigate' threat call to Sanjay Raut

"We will investigate the threat call to Sanjay Raut. We will also investigate if this is a stunt, the state police will take care of security," says Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde.

Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna presents Budget in Assembly.

G20 can contribute to finding solution to global challenges of geo-political tensions, says Anurag Thakur

Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur on Wednesday said the G20 can contribute significantly to find a solution to global challenges such as climate change and geo-political tensions. Speaking at the inaugural session of the G20 Second Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD) Meeting here, he noted that the theme of India's G20 Presidency is ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (one earth, one family, one future).(PTI)

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea on Karnataka hijab matter

Case against 30-40 unidentified Rajasthan cops for allegedly assaulting Bhiwani accused's pregnant wife

Anurag Thakur bats for diplomacy and dialogue at G20 meet

Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy announces 2024 presidential bid

Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has launched his 2024 presidential bid with a promise to “put merit back” and end dependence on China, becoming the second community member to enter the Republican Party's presidential primary after Nikki Haley.

Ramaswamy, 37, whose parents migrated to the United States from Kerala and worked at a General Electric plant in Ohio, made the announcement during a live interview on Fox News’s prime time show of Tucker Carlson, a conservative political commentator.

He is the second Indian-American to enter the Republican presidential primary.(PTI)

Air India flight from Newark to Delhi diverted to Stockholm due to oil leak in one of engines, says senior official

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia to be prosecuted in snooping case

Ministry of Home Affairs has given sanction to prosecute Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 'Feedback Unit' alleged snooping case.

Jaishankar questions BBC documentary timing, slams Opposition over China crisis

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that his father K Subrahmanyam had been removed from the post of Secretary (Defence Production) in the Union Government by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1980, possibly because he had been very upright.

Jaishankar said during an interview with the ANI news agency that his father had also been superseded during the term of Rajiv Gandhi as the prime minister and a bureaucrat junior to him had been appointed as cabinet secretary. He had also dismissed allegation by the Congress and the other opposition parties that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government had failed to respond adequately to China’s bid to push the Line of Actual Control westward to encroach into the territory of India.

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Sania ends career with first round defeat in Dubai

Sania Mirza closed her glorious career with a first-round defeat at the WTA Dubai Duty-Free Championships, losing the contest in straight sets along with American partner Madison Keys here Tuesday.

Sania and Keys lost 4-6 0-6 to the formidable Russian pair of Vernokia Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova in exactly one hour.

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Fire breaks out in the slums of Kamla Nagar in Mumbai. Ten fire tenders are at the spot.