A look at the headlines right now:
- Budget 2017: Centre promises Rs 1-lakh crore rail safety fund in five years, scraps service charges for e-tickets: The Opposition said the Budget has ‘nothing for farmers’, while Modi called it ‘perfect’.
- British MPs back Bill allowing PM Theresa May to begin Brexit process: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called the result ‘absolutely momentous’.
- FIR will be registered against Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, says Pakistan minister: Details about the cases under which the JuD chief will be booked will be made available in a few days, said Federal Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir.
- Donald Trump’s immigration order is not the best way to protect US, says UN chief Antonio Guterres: The secretary-general said freezing refugee resettlement played to the advantage of terrorists groups seeking to recruit members.
- Six Odisha police personnel killed after explosion on highway near AP border, Maoists suspected: The blast comes two weeks before the three-tier panchayat polls in the district, which Maoists in the Malkangiri region have wanted people to boycott.
- Mishap averted at Delhi airport as IndiGo aircraft enters wrong taxiway: The incident took place at 5.40 am when the Visakhapatnam-bound flight entered a runway where a Jet Airways aircraft was already parked.
- Sadhvi Pragya acquitted of all charges in murder of right-wing activist Sunil Joshi in 2007: All other seven accused were also exonerated in the case by a Madhya Pradesh court on Wednesday.
- Kerala man sets medical student on fire in classroom, both die: He doused his ex-girlfriend with petrol at the School of Medical Education in Kottayam, before setting her ablaze and then self-immolating.
- Facebook-owned Oculus loses virtual reality case to ZeniMax, to pay $500 million in damages: The video game developer had accused the firm of copyright infringement for using its computer code to create a VR headset.
- Chennai oil spill: Workers manually clear coastline, around 20 tonnes left to clean up: The Coast Guard had earlier said they believed only one tonne of oil had spilled in the sea.
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