DH Evening Brief: March 5, 2022

Five persons including a Bangladesh national were arrested in Assam's Barpeta district for their alleged links with Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a terror outfit based in neighbouring Bangladesh having links with Al-Qaeda.

. Holding tricolour, scores of Indian students gathered at open space in Sumy State University to make their “last” appeal on the tenth day of the Ukraine war – we are moving to the Russian border 600 km away and if something happens, the Indian government and embassy are responsible.

. Beneath Shane Warne's fittingly one-and-a-half times larger than life bronze statue, stunned fans in his native Melbourne made votive offerings of flowers, beer, cigarettes and a meat pie Saturday, remembering an imperfect hero whose outsized skill and personality transcended cricket.

. Violence erupted in some places of Manipur hours before the second phase of assembly polls began on Saturday, as a BJP supporter was gunned down allegedly by a Congress worker, while a crude bomb exploded outside the residence of an expelled saffron party leader, police said.

. Russia declared a partial ceasefire on Saturday to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, Russia's defence ministry said.

. Against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has said foreign medical graduates with incomplete internships due to situations beyond their control like Covid-19 or war can finish the same in India.

. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls as "pro-incumbency", saying the people themselves are fighting for continuation of the government.

. Reparation is seemingly obvious in Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s maiden Budget that contains some ‘damage control’ measures in the run-up to the 2023 Assembly polls.

. A Special CBI court in Delhi on Saturday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Chitra Ramakrishna, the former CEO-MD of National Stock Exchange (NSE), in connection with a fraud case.

. Russian President Vladimir Putin has intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on the war in Ukraine, blocking Facebook and Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports.

DH Evening Brief: March 5, 2022

Bangladesh national, four others arrested in Assam for alleged links with terror group affiliated to Al-Qaeda

Indian students stuck in Ukraine's Sumy appeal to Centre for help

Flowers, beers, ciggies and a meat pie: Australian fans mark Warne's death

Operation Ganga: IAF flight with 210 Indian nationals reaches Hindon airbase from Romania

BJP worker gunned down in Manipur hours before start of assembly polls

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