23 Mar, 23:16 (IST)

The Delhi High Court on Saturday, March 23, said that the Citizenship Act of 1955 supersedes the provisions outlined in the Passport Manual of 2020, affirming that subordinate legislation cannot override primary legislation. The high court bench of Justice Subramaniam Prasad delivered the verdict in response to a plea filed by two minor children challenging the authorities' decision to revoke their Indian passports and refusing to reissue them.

23 Mar, 22:17 (IST)

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana on Saturday announced two more candidates for the May 13 Lok Sabha elections. The party fielded Kyama Mallesh for the Bhongir seat and Kancherla Krishna Reddy for the Nalgonda constituency.

23 Mar, 21:05 (IST)

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday said that he has no doubts about the victory of BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections by winning over 400 seats. "I have no worries about NDA's victory in this Lok Sabha election. Our focus now lies in determining the extent of our success, with expectations soaring above 400 seats," he said.

23 Mar, 20:19 (IST)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, March 23, pledged to punish the perpetrators of the barbaric attack that killed 143 people and injured several others in a concert hall near Moscow. Putin also urged the international community to stand with Russia.

23 Mar, 19:25 (IST)

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday moved the Delhi High Court challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. It must be noted that on Friday, March 22, a trial court had remanded Arvind Kejriwal in ED's custody till March 28 "for his detailed and sustained interrogation".

23 Mar, 18:43 (IST)

In response to the tragic shooting at a concert in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned the "bloody, barbaric terrorist act" that claimed the lives of numerous innocent individuals. Putin declared March 24 as a day of national mourning.National Mourning Day

23 Mar, 18:00 (IST)

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday, March 23, said that he will visit Siachen area on March 24 and celebrate Holi with the armed forces personnel deployed there. "Tomorrow, 24th March, I shall be in Siachen, the world’s highest battlefield. Looking forward to celebrate Holi with the Armed Forces personnel deployed there," Singh said in his post on X.

23 Mar, 17:17 (IST)

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday, March 2, said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the "kingpin and key conspirator" in the excise policy case in collusion with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ministers, leaders and other persons. The probe agency also claimed that Kejriwal was directly involved in the conspiracy of formulation of the excise policy to "favour certain persons".

23 Mar, 16:29 (IST)

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Saturday, March 23, said that it is "unfortunate" to deal with a neighbour like Pakistan that blatantly uses terrorism as an instrument of statecraft. Speaking at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), EAM Jaishankar said that "every country wants a stable neighbourhood, it's logical".

23 Mar, 15:38 (IST)

In a significant boost to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), six former Congress MLAs of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, who were disqualified for defying a party whip, joined the BJP today, March 23. As per news agency IANS, three Independent legislators, who resigned from the House of 68 a day earlier, may join the saffron party soon.

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Mumbai, March 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred the Order of the Druk Gyalpo, Bhutan's highest honor. The King of Bhutan bestowed the honour upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi, making him the first foreign government leader to receive it from the Himalayan nation.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to 6-day Enforcement Directorate custody by the Rouse Avenue Court in connection with the now-scrapped liquor policy-linked money laundering case. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo will remain in probe agency custody till March 28 (Thursday). He will be produced before the court at 2 pm on March 28. A delegation, comprising several leaders of the INDIA bloc on Friday met the Election Commission of India (ECI) to register their protest against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest by the Enforcement Directorate and the alleged targetting of opposition leaders ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP will fight the Lok Sabha elections in Odisha as well as state assembly elections alone, party's state unit chief Manmohan Samal said on Friday. BJP's Odisha unit chief Manmohan Samal further said his party would win all 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state as well as all 147 legislative seats in the assembly elections. This comes amid pre-poll alliance talks between the ruling BJD and the opposition BJP for the Lok Sabha, Assembly elections.

Several people were injured after gunmen, wearing combat uniforms, fired shots at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday, according to Russian news agencies. RIA Novosti reported that three gunmen in disguise fired shots at Crocus City Hall, a huge concert hall located on the western edge of the Russian capital, news agency The Associated Press reported. After his anti-India rhetoric, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has struck a reconciliatory tone, saying India will continue to remain his country’s “closest ally” and urged New Delhi to provide debt relief to the archipelago nation.

Israel's spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the US planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the UN Security Council, intensifying pressure on its ally. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday in Cairo he believed talks mediated by the US, Qatar and Egypt could still reach a ceasefire deal between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel.