LIVE: Veteran Congress leader AK Antony’s son Anil Antony joins BJP

Anil Antony, the son of Congress leader AK Antony, joined the BJP in Kerala.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) held a ‘Shobha Yatra,’ a procession on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, in the riot-hit Jahangirpuri area of the national capital on Thursday.

Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die on the last day of the Budget Session of the Parliament.

Supreme Court on Thursday said it will hear the case relating to Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque on April 14 and it allowed the Muslim side to file an application before it regarding their request to allow the practice of ablution inside the mosque premises, ANI reported.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday named Sushil Kumar Rinku as its candidate for Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll.

BJP national president JP Nadda on Thursday said that the party’s ‘wall writing program’ has started across the country on the party’s foundation day, ANI reported. He further said that all state units’ chiefs will also undertake this program.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attended a courtesy meeting of MPs hosted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on the last day of the Budget session of Parliament, ANI reported.

On the last day of the Budget session of Parliament opposition MPs carried out a ‘Tiranga March’ from Parliament to Vijay Chowk in Delhi.

House proceedings in Rajya Sabha have been adjourned till 2 pm. 

Amid sticky inflation, the Reserve Bank of India decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5% with ‘readiness to act should the situation so warrant’, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das announced on Thursday after the monetary policy committee meeting. Read more

Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected bail plea of AAP leader Satyendar Jain and two co-accused in a 2017- money laundering case. Read more

Fighting in a democratic way is our duty. If the government is not listening, it is stubborn. If you want democracy to be alive then listening to the opposition is important: Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress National President on the last day of Budget session

Telangana | State BJP chief and MP Bandi Sanjay’s petition to quash FIR registered against him will be heard by the High Court at 1pm today: Bandi Sanjay’s counsel, Karuna Saga to ANI

Jharkhand education minister Jagarnath Mahato passes away in Chennai, says CM Hemant Soren.

RBI keeps the repo rate unchanged at 6.5% with readiness to act should the situation so warrant, announces RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

CPI Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam has written to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over “drastic changes” made to NCERT textbooks as part of “rationalising” exercise and urged him to take necessary action.

Budget session of Parliament | Congress Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari gives adjournment motion notice to discuss the “reported procurement of Pegasus-like surveillance equipment by the Government”.

Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal and V Muraleedharan arrive at Parliament Library Building for the BJP Parliamentary party meeting

Delhi | The procession organisers will follow the approved routes. Around 200-300 people will participate in one procession and around 500 people are expected to take part in another procession: Jitendra Meena, DCP-North West on Hanuman Jayanti processions in Jahangirpuri

India logs 5,335 fresh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, active caseload at 25,587

Canada | Hindu temple vandalised with “hate-motivated graffiti” in Windsor, two suspects wanted. Police officers discovered anti-Hindu and anti-India graffiti sprayed in black on an exterior wall of the temple building: Windsor Police

Karnataka | Police have seized ₹50 lakhs of unaccounted cash from a car at Dundur check post in Gadag district, case registered, reports ANI

YouTuber Manish Kashyap who has been sent to judicial custody till April 19 for posting fake videos of migrant labourers from Bihar “being attacked” in Tamil Nadu has been booked under National Security Act (NSA).

Following the arrest of Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union Minister Kishan Reddy on Thursday termed the latter’s arrest as ‘undemocratic’ and said that the state BJP chief’s arrest was to divert people’s attention.

Elathur train attack case accused Shahrukh Saifi has been brought to Kozhikode. He is being taken to Maloorkunnu police camp, where his medical check-up will be done.

Taiwan says 1 Chinese aircraft, 3 warships detected around island, reports AFP

On the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, Delhi police has given permission to take out the Shobha Yatra in the Jahangirpuri area within a certain distance.

Northern countries are at risk of outbreaks of dengue, Zika and chikungunya as climate change increases the range of the mosquitoes that carry these illnesses, according to the World Health Organization.

Vande Bharat Express leaving Visakhapatnam is rescheduled to leave at 9:45am instead of its scheduled departure at 5:45am as the C-8 coach window glass is broken due to stone pelting by miscreants: Waltair Division Railway

This is the 3rd incident of stone pelting on the Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad Vande Bharat Express in last three months.

India was elected as a member of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) of the United Nations, according to the statement released by the permanent mission of India to the United Nations in New York.

India has also been elected to the United Nations’ highest statistical body for a four-year term.