A look at the headlines right now:
- Centre announces major healthcare scheme in Budget, promises farmers an increase in crop prices: The government left income tax unchanged, while introducing Standard Deduction for salaried class.
- Congress wins Rajasthan’s Mandalgarh seat in bye-poll elections; TMC wins Naopara and Uluberia in West Bengal: In a blow to the BJP government in Rajasthan, the Congress was also headed for a win in two Lok Sabha seats – Ajmer and Alwar.
- Chief justice introduces new subject-wise roster system in Supreme Court, will hear PILs himself: Four senior top court judges had claimed that Dipak Misra had assigned important cases arbitrarily.
- Arun Jaitley pegs fiscal deficit at 3.3% of GDP, after breaching 2017-’18 target: During the Budget speech, he announced a crackdown on cryptocurrency, and a new ‘Gobar Dhan’ scheme to help farmers manage and reuse cattle dung.
- Congress demands special investigation team probe in Judge Loya’s death: Pointing to ‘mysterious’ deaths of two of Loya’s friends and discrepancies in medical reports, the Congress said ‘circumstances are telling their own story’.
- Ex-Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh, wife named as accused in chargesheet: The Enforcement Directorate had earlier claimed that it had recorded the statements of several witnesses and had investigated bank transactions.
- 12-hour bandh in Nagaland underway after EC issues notification for Assembly polls: The bandh was near-total in Dimapur but failed to elicit much of a response in state capital Kohima.
- Petrol bomb thrown at de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house in Myanmar: The leader was not at her house at the time of the incident. The bomb caused minor damage to the lakeside property.
- Seventy-one schools shut in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowshera as Pakistan violates ceasefire, say officials: Heavy shelling was reported in Kampla, Lam and Anwas Bhandar areas of Rajouri district’s Nowshera town.
- Kochi college suspends classes after north Indian students claim they were tricked into eating beef: Some students have claimed that they were told that the beef cutlets being served at a college event were a vegetarian dish.
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