BREAKING: India Ratings cuts GDP growth forecast to 7% for FY23

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• Mar 30, 2022 05:39 PM IST

  India Ratings cuts GDP growth forecast to 7 per cent for 2022-23

  India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) on Wednesday cut India’s GDP growth forecast for the 2022-23 financial year to 7 – 7.2 percent from its earlier estimate of 7.6 percent. 

• Mar 30, 2022 05:00 PM IST

  Pakistani minister says ‘Imran Khan will not resign’

  Pakistan Minister Fawad Chaudhry asserted that Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan will not be resigning. “Imran Khan is a player who fights till the last ball. There will not be a resignation. There will be a match, both friends and foes will watch it,” he wrote on Twitter. 

• Mar 30, 2022 04:22 PM IST

  Punjab government’s major decision in the education sector

  Punjab government orders private schools in the state to not increase the admission fee this semester.

• Mar 30, 2022 04:06 PM IST

  NSA Ajit Doval met Foreign Policy Adviser to the German Chancellor today

  NSA Ajit Doval met Jens Plötner, Security and Foreign Policy Adviser to the German Chancellor today in New Delhi. The two sides discussed a wide range of bilateral issues as well as major global developments, including in their respective regions: Sources pic.twitter.com/eVY9AsoNXE

  — ANI (@ANI) March 30, 2022

  NSA Ajit Doval met Jens Plötner, Security and Foreign Policy Adviser to the German Chancellor today in New Delhi. 

• Mar 30, 2022 03:38 PM IST

  Protests outside Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house

  BJP workers dismantled barricades as they huddled outside Delhi CM and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s house during a protest, this afternoon

  Visuals courtesy: CCTV, Delhi CM house pic.twitter.com/bjtMkysXR9

  — ANI (@ANI) March 30, 2022

  BJP workers dismantled barricades as they huddled outside Delhi CM and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s house during a protest. 

• Mar 30, 2022 03:24 PM IST

  Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan will address the nation today

  Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan will address the nation today, reported Pakistan media quoting its Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. According to the media, Imran Khan will address the nation in the evening to take them into confidence over a ‘foreign conspiracy’ letter aimed at toppling the incumbent government. 

• Mar 30, 2022 03:10 PM IST

  Russian foreign minister holds bilateral meeting with Indonesian counterpart in China

  Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov holds a bilateral meeting with foreign minister of Indonesia Retno Marsudi in Tunxi, China. 

• Mar 30, 2022 03:03 PM IST

  Cabinet approves USD 808 million for RAMP

  Union Cabinet approves USD 808 million for Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance (RAMP).

• Mar 30, 2022 03:00 PM IST

  Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to visit India tomorrow

  Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to visit India tomorrow, says government. 

• Mar 30, 2022 02:29 PM IST

  Union cabinet clears 3% hike in DA for govt employees, pensioners

  Union cabinet clears 3 per cent hike in Dearness Allownace for central govt employees, pensioners. 

• Mar 30, 2022 02:26 PM IST

  IMD issues heat wave warning in Maharashtra

  Heatwave warnings have been announced in some districts in Madhya Maharashtra including Ahmednagar, Solapur, Jalgaon, and Marathwada districts including Aurangabad, Hingoli, Parbhani, and Jalna for next 3 days. No heatwave warning in Mumbai for the next 5 days: Jayant Sarkar, IMD (ANI)

• Mar 30, 2022 01:45 PM IST

  AAP claims Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s house attacked by ‘BJP goons’

  SHOCKING!

  CM @ArvindKejriwal‘s HOUSE ATTACKED BY BJP GOONS!#BJPKeGunde broke CCTV cameras, security barriers & boom barriers at Delhi CM’s House, all in the presence of Delhi Police.

  — AAP (@AamAadmiParty) March 30, 2022

• Mar 30, 2022 11:44 AM IST

  Increasing fuel prices on PM’s daily ‘to-do’ list: Rahul Gandhi

  प्रधानमंत्री की Daily To-Do List

  1. पेट्रोल-डीज़ल-गैस का रेट कितना बढ़ाऊँ
  2. लोगों की ‘खर्चे पे चर्चा’ कैसे रुकवाऊँ
  3. युवा को रोज़गार के खोखले सपने कैसे दिखाऊं
  4. आज किस सरकारी कंपनी को बेचूँ
  5. किसानों को और लाचार कैसे करूँ#RozSubahKiBaat

  — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 30, 2022

• Mar 30, 2022 11:04 AM IST

  South says North Korea faked launch of so-called ‘monster’ missile

  North Korea faked the launch of what analysts have dubbed its “monster missile” last week, Seoul’s military said Wednesday, adding that the test was, in reality, likely the same intercontinental ballistic missile Pyongyang fired in 2017.

  “US and South Korean intelligence has determined that what was fired on March 24 was a Hwasong-15,” the defence ministry official told AFP.

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• Mar 30, 2022 10:15 AM IST

  ‘Stability of international order in question,’ says PM Modi

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that ‘regional cooperation has become a greater priority’ as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis has ‘raised questions about the stability of the international order’ in virtual address at the BIMSTEC summit.

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• Mar 30, 2022 09:40 AM IST

  Congress MP Manickam Tagore gives adjournment notice in LS

  Budget session of Parliament : Congress MP Manickam Tagore gives adjournment notice in Lok Sabha to discuss “the plight of investors affected due to realty majors going insolvent and direct government to intervene in the matter”

• Mar 30, 2022 08:52 AM IST

  Telangana CM writes to PM Modi to help medical students from Ukraine complete their education

  Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to help medical students who have returned from Ukraine to complete their education by allowing them to join medical colleges in India, news agency ANI reported.

• Mar 30, 2022 08:44 AM IST

  India records 1,233 fresh Covid cases, 31 deaths in last 24 hours

  India records 1,233 fresh Covid cases in last 24 hours. Active caseload dropped to 14,704 or 0.03 per cent as per health ministry data. 31 new deaths were also reported in the last 24 hours.

• Mar 30, 2022 08:21 AM IST

  Journalist-turned-terrorist among two killed in Srinagar encounter

  Security forces neutralised two terrorists during an encounter in the Rainawari area of Srinagar on early Wednesday morning. Jammu and Kashmir police said that one of the terrorists, identified as Rayees Ahmad Bhat, was a former journalist who ran an online news portal ‘Valley News Service’ in Anantnag.

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• Mar 30, 2022 08:06 AM IST

  Petrol and diesel prices on March 30: Top updates

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• Mar 30, 2022 08:02 AM IST

  Petrol now at ₹106 per litre in Chennai, ₹110 in Kolkata

  In Chennai, the price of petrol is ₹106.69 & diesel is ₹96.76. Meanwhile, in Kolkata, the price of petrol is ₹110.52 and diesel is ₹95.42 per litre.

  Chennai – Petrol: ₹106/ltr | Diesel : 96.76/ltr

  Kolkata – Petrol : ₹110.52/ltr | Diesel: 95.42/ltr

  Delhi – Petrol: ₹101/ltr | Diesel : 97.27/ltr

  Mumbai – Petrol : ₹115.88/ltr | Diesel: 100.10/ltr

• Mar 30, 2022 07:22 AM IST

  Petrol to cost ₹101 per litre in Delhi, ₹115 in Mumbai

  Price of petrol & diesel in Delhi at ₹101.01 per litre & ₹92.27 per litre respectively today. In India’s financial capital Mumbai, the petrol & diesel prices per litre at ₹115.88 & ₹100.10.

  Delhi – Petrol: ₹101/ltr | Diesel : 97.27/ltr

  Mumbai – Petrol : ₹115.88/ltr | Diesel: 100.10/ltr

• Mar 30, 2022 07:13 AM IST

  Petrol, diesel prices hiked again by 80 paise, 8th hike in 9 days

  India registered an 8th hike in fuel prices in 9 days on Wednesday as the government continues to underline that the Ukraine war is one of the factors behind the spike.

  Petrol prices were hiked by 80 paise per litre on Wednesday taking total hike to ₹5.60, PTI reported.