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• Feb 27, 2022 04:08 PM IST

  Ghulam Nabi Azad’s nephew joins BJP in Jammu

  Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s nephew Mubashir Azad joined BJP in Jammu on Sunday. He said he was “influenced” by PM Narendra Modi’s “developmental works at the ground level,” according to PTI.

• Feb 27, 2022 03:49 PM IST

  Odisha adds 251 new Covid cases, lowest single-day surge this year

  Odisha on Sunday added 251 new cases, which pushed the caseload to 12,84,867, according to the state health department’s bulletin. Sunday’s case count has been the lowest since the beginning of this year. 

• Feb 27, 2022 03:25 PM IST

  12,000 displaced due to floods in northern Malaysia

  As many as 12,000 people have been displaced because of floods in Malaysia’s northern states. The government has said that authorities are being mobilised to evacuate victims.

• Feb 27, 2022 02:55 PM IST

  Ukraine crisis: Jharkhand CM writes to PM Modi, lists state residents who are stranded

  Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren writes to PM Modi and informs him about the list of people from the state – along with their details- who are stuck in Ukraine; requests him to instruct concerned officials of Govt of India to take steps for their safe return. #RussiaUkraineConflict pic.twitter.com/Sdiic6D7ct

  — ANI (@ANI) February 27, 2022

  Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, mentioning details about the state’s resident who are stranded in Ukraine. 

• Feb 27, 2022 02:36 PM IST

  Uttarakhand polls: Police summon 4 army personnel for tampering postal ballots

  The Pithoragarh police on Sunday summoned four army personnel for allegedly tampering with the postal ballots in an army centre in Jammu. This comes after former senior congress leader and former  Uttarakhand chief Harish Rawat shared the video online. 

  I am making a small video viral for everyone’s information, in this how one person is ticking all votes in one centre of the army and even doing the same signature of all the people, See a sample of that, will the election commission want to take cognizance of it?” Rawat said on Tuesday. 

• Feb 27, 2022 02:15 PM IST

  Sanjay Raut renews attack on Centre over I-T raids on Sena corporator

  Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday renewed his attack on the Union government over the income tax raids carried out at party corporator Yashwant Jadhav’s premises. 

• Feb 27, 2022 02:14 PM IST

  Finland to close airspace to Russian airplanes

  The Finnish government announced on Sunday that it is closing its airspace to Russian airplanes after Moscow’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine. 

• Feb 27, 2022 11:54 AM IST

  Fourth ‘Operation Ganga’ flight leaves for Delhi from Bucharest”

  “Fourth ‘Operation Ganga’ flight is wheels up from Bucharest. 198 Indian nationals are coming back to Delhi,” tweeted external affairs minister S Jaishankar

• Feb 27, 2022 10:34 AM IST

  Trains services hit in Mumbai due to power cuts, 1st major outage since Oct 2020

  Local train services in Mumbai has been severely impacted due to a major power outage since October 2020. Railways officials said that the entire Churchgate to Andheri corridor was disrupted as no train was operating since 9.42am. An electricity grid failure has put much of Mumbai without power. Read more…

• Feb 27, 2022 10:32 AM IST

  BJP chief’s Twitter account hacked, crypto donations sought for Russia, Ukraine

  The Twitter account of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Jagat Prakash Nadda was hacked on Sunday morning, with several tweets asking for donations in cryptocurrency to help Russia and Ukraine. Read more…

• Feb 27, 2022 09:56 AM IST

  Seoul identifies projectile fired by North Korea as ballistic missile

  North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday, Seoul said, resuming a weapons-testing blitz while the world focuses on Ukraine, reported news agency AFP.

• Feb 27, 2022 09:08 AM IST

  India adds 10,273 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours

  India on Sunday continued a downward trend in its daily tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) after 10,273 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours, pushing the caseload to 4,29,16,117, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard. The active cases in the country dropped below the 1,20,000 and stand at 1,11,472. 

• Feb 27, 2022 08:27 AM IST

  PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ broadcast today

  The 86th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ will be broadcast at 11am. It will be aired on the entire network of AIR and Doordarshan and also on AIR News and mobile app.

• Feb 27, 2022 06:47 AM IST

  Australia arrive in Pakistan for first cricket tour in 24 years

  The Australian cricket team arrived in Pakistan for the first tour in 24 years. Australia have had not visited Pakistan since 1998 because of security concerns.

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