Amritpal Singh on the run, manhunt launched to nab him: Punjab Police. A total of 78 persons have been arrested and several detained so far in connection with the crackdown launched against the chief of suspected pro-Khalistan outfit ‘Waris Punjab De’, Amritpal Singh and his aides, Punjab Police said on Saturday, adding that the Khalistan sympathiser is still on the run.
1. President Droupadi Murmu to interact with members of Self-Help Groups at Kavaratti.
2. Union Home Minister Amit Shah to lay foundation stone of Junagadh district bank headquarters & inaugurate APMC Kisan Bhawan in agriculture camp at APMC Dolatpara in Junagadh.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah to offer prayers at Somnath temple & e-inaugurate various development works with launch of Somnath Trust’s mobile app; and will also attend Gujarat Central University Convocation Ceremony.
3. Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said 11 Indian carriers will operate 22,907 domestic flights weekly as part of this year’s summer schedule, up 4.4% from 21,941 weekly flights in the ongoing winter schedule.
4. ISRO Young Scientist Programme: The registration process will be done online and students will be required to register themselves on– isro.gov.in/YUVIKA.
5. ISRO plans ‘SPACE TOURISM’ by 2030 at ₹6 crore per passenger: ISRO chairman, S Somnath said that the per-ticket cost for a trip to space is likely to be around ₹6 crore. It is not specify whether the space tourism would be sub-orbital (reaching an altitude of 100 km, the edge of space) or orbital (400 km), the cost suggests it will be the former. Typically, on such trips, tourists spend around 15 minutes at the edge of space, experiencing a few minutes in a low gravity environment, before descending.
6. H3N2 Virus: Gurugram Reports 2 New Cases; Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka Issue Alerts amid Surge. At least nine people have died due to the H3N2 influenza virus across the country.
7. Three-day, 3rd annual edition of International SME Convention 2023 (ISC) to begin in New Delhi; Union MSME Minister Narayan Rane, to be chief guest for inaugural event with Guests of Honour.
8. The National Highway Authority of India opened T5 tunnel for traffic, a 870-metre tunnel that bypasses landslide-prone stretch of the mountainous road between Panthial and Magerkote, on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district.
9. Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to distribute financial aid under Jagananna Vidya Deevena for eligible students at a programme scheduled to be organised at Tiruvur in NTR district.
10. Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed AP Value Added Tax (amendment) Bill 2023 and AP Para Veterinary and Allied Council Bill 2023 while three Bills were tabled on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh Right in Land and Pattadar Pass Books (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams, (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) (Amendment) Bills 2023, were tabled by the revenue minister.
11. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar announced an ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh for the families of four migrant labourers killed after their bus overturned in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday
12. Asia’s largest tulip garden in Kashmir to open for visitors in Srinagar.
13. Himachal Pradesh government has shut down 285 schools with zero student enrolments across the state in order to rationalise schools and staff. A notification was issued on Friday which said the staff working at the affected institutions have been transferred to other schools.
14. Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said the state will be the first to provide a subsidy of ₹50 lakh to private operators to buy electric buses. He said the state will provide a ₹10 lakh subsidy to the private operators on the purchase of electric taxis. He announced ₹50 lakh subsidy on the purchase of electric trucks.
15. Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the party’s first list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls, which is likely by May, will be announced on March 22, the day of Ugadi festival.
CRIME /MISHAP REPORT
1. Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh’s father on Saturday said that Punjab Police has asked the family to tell Amritpal to surrender. “We don’t know where Amritpal…is. We’re concerned… something may happen to him,” he said. Notably, police have said that a massive manhunt has been launched to arrest Amritpal, adding that 78 people linked to his outfit have been arrested.
2. Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu called the leak of Geography question paper circulated on social media fake and CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that it was an “attempt to disrupt the entire atmosphere”. Pegu claimed that the 2021 question paper was edited and circulated causing confusion. Sarma added that Assam Police will investigate the matter and take appropriate action.
3. Finance Ministry on Saturday said that GST officials in Delhi have unearthed a fake invoicing racket after conducting inspection at the registered premises of three bogus companies. “Preliminary enquiry conducted so far into the transactions of these firms has revealed tax evasion of ₹17 crore approximately,” an official statement said. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the case.
4. Former Asansol mayor and BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari has been arrested from Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh by Asansol Durgapur Commissionerate in connection with a stampede. The incident happened during a blanket distribution program on December 14, 2022, in Asansol.
5. The probe into the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) question paper leak reportedly stumbled upon shocking evidence that as many as 15 competitive examination papers were allegedly leaked by Pulidindi Praveen Kumar, the prime accused working in the Commission.
6. At least 35 people were injured after a bus carrying 65 passengers overturned and fell into a ditch in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad on Saturday. The passengers were pilgrims on their way to Kannauj after a trip to Rishikesh and Haridwar.
7. A trainer aircraft crashed in a forest area in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Saturday. Both the pilots (instructor and trainee) have died in the crase. The reason behind the crash is not known yet.
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1. Hyper Stealth Technologies Private Limited (HSTPL) has become the first iDEX winner to receive an order from the Indian armed forces. The company specialises in the manufacturing of stealth management solutions.
2. Government is reportedly close to finalising a Rs 2,000 crore project that seeks to boost the telecom infrastructure in the border areas. The project would bring 4G to more than 1000 outposts and intelligence posts.
3. Andhra pradesh CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will release funds for the Jagananna Vidya Deevena scheme by pressing a button at a function near the market yard at Thiruvuru on Sunday. It will be transferring Rs 698.68 crore to around 9.86 lakh students towards the October-December 2022 quarter directly into the bank accounts of mothers of students.
4. Reserve Bank of India on Friday said it has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) for non-compliance with certain provisions issued by the National Housing Bank (NHB).
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. Ishaan Khatter starrer Pippa not releasing on OTT. Pippa was deferred from its theatrical release. The film was supposed to release on December 2, 2022.
2. Singer Selena Gomez has become the first woman to cross 400 million followers on social media platform Instagram. Previously, Kylie Jenner had the most number of Instagram followers and she is currently followed by 382 million people.
DEFENCE
1. Royal Navy warship HMS Tamar arrived in Chennai on Friday on a 13-day visit. The Royal Navy and the Indian Navy will engage in a variety of activities including professional and social interactions and sports fixtures. The British ship will leave on March 29. The ship recently participated in multilateral naval exercise “La Pérouse” in the Indian Ocean region.
2. Last tributes were paid with full military honours to Lt Col VVB Reddy and Major Jayanth A of Army Aviation, who lost their lives in the line of duty on 16 March, in the Arunachal Army chopper crash in West Kameng district while on an operational sortie in Tezpur, Assam.
3. Retired Army officers, many from the Army Aviation Corps (AAC), have demanded that the Ministry of Defence come clean on the schedule of delivery of Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) to replace the ageing fleet of Cheetahs, Cheetals and Chetaks. This demand was raised after Thursday’s crash of a Cheetah near Bomdila in Arunachal Pradesh.
4. An encounter broke out between terrorists and security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. So far, there were no reports of any casualty on either side.
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TRIPURA: Agartala
Union territory: 1 Nov 1956
Formation of state
21 January 1972
Districts : 8
Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya
CM : Manik Saha (BJP)
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