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Catch the latest news updates of the day here.Stocks fall again in another wild day, leaving Wall Street with its worst week since October 2008 as virus fears spread, reported AP.US President Trump has urged Afghans to 'seize opportunity for peace' on eve of US-Taliban deal, reported AFP.30 people have been killed and several injured in a collision between a bus and Pakistan Express Train near Rohri in Sindh, reported Pakistan's Geo NewsBCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Friday, 28 February said the next Asia Cup will be held in Dubai, paving the way for both India and Pakistan to participate in the continental tournament.A 33-year-old CRPF jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with an AK 47 rifle at his group centre here on Friday, 28 February, police said, reported ANI.The jawan was posted at CRPF group centre in Trishundi under Pipapur police station, they said.Station House Officer Ravindra Singh said the jawan has been identified as Hiranya Das, a resident of Assam.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday appointed its MLAs Atishi and Jarnail Singh as in-charge of the party's Goa and Punjab units respectively. The AAP would soon start organisation building operations in the two states, according to a statement."The AAP on Friday appointed Atishi, senior leader and MLA from Kalkaji, as the state in-charge of Goa, and Tilak Nagar MLA Jarnail Singh as the state in-charge of Punjab," it said.The aim of these appointments is to take the 'Arvind Kejriwal model of development' forward, the AAP said.(Source: PTI)A 22-year-old man allegedly tried to kill himself by jumping in front of a moving train at Mandi House metro station on Friday evening, delaying services on the rapid transit system, police said."Around 6 pm Friday, he jumped in front of a moving train at Mandi House metro station. He was taken to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital Hospital where he is undergoing treatment," a senior police officer said.He is a resident of DDA Officers Flats on Bhagwan Das Road. The man was identified through his mobile phone and his maternal uncle has been informed about the incident, police said.(Source: PTI)Nripendra Mishra, the chairman of the Ram Temple Construction Committee, met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday a day before his proposed visit to Ayodhya initiate the process for preparing a blueprint for construction of the temple.Mishra's meeting with the chief minister was described as a courtesy call by a senior government official, who said the meeting lasted for nearly half an hour.Mishra will also be visiting Ayodhya on Saturday, he added.(Source: PTI)Baidyanath Prasad Mahto, a JD(U) MP from Valmiki Nagar (Bihar) passed away at AIIMS, Delhi today. He was admitted in AIIMS on February 10 and was ill for a very long time.Expressing grief over his death, CM Nitish Kumar has announced that he will be given a state funeral.(Source: ANI)Three people were killed and 25 others injured in a powerful blast at a factory in Bahadurgarh in Haryana's Jhajjar district on Friday, police said.Station House Officer (SHO) Vijender Singh said an adjacent factory was destroyed and around five other factories were affected due to the impact of the blast."Three people died and at least 25 were injured after the powerful blast at the factory in Bahadurgarh," the SHO told PTI over the phone.(Source: PTI)The CBI on Friday conducted searches at the premises of directors of Shree Bankey Behari Exports Pvt Ltd after booking them and the company in a bank fraud case of Rs 604 crore, officials said.The agency has booked Shree Bankey Behari Exports Limited and its directors Amarchand Gupta, Shakuntala Devi, Ramlal Gupta, Rajkumar Gupta and unidentified others in the fraud case, they said.The State Bank of India has complained to the CBI alleging that the company has availed credit facilities to the tune of Rs 625 crore (approx) and cheated members of consortium banks by way of forgery and using forged documents as genuine, the officials said.(Source: PTI)NIA arrested Shakir Bashir Magrey, an over-ground worker of JeM. He had provided shelter and other logistical assistance to the suicide-bomber Adil Ahmad Dar.He has revealed that he had harboured Adil Ahmad Dar and Pakistani terrorist Mohd Umar Farooq in his house from late 2018 till the attack in February 2019, and assisted them in the preparation of the IED. He has been remanded to 15 days of NIA custody for detailed interrogation.(Source: ANI)Delhi government gives go-ahead to prosecute former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and two others in sedition case, police says.(Source: PTI)The BJP appointed seven new district presidents of the party in Kashmir region on Friday.In south Kashmir, advocate Wajahat has been made Anantnag district president, Abid Hussain Khan Kulgam district president and Sajad Raina the Pulwama district president, he said.In north Kashmir, Mohmmad Shafi Mir has been appointed as Kupwara district president and Mir Mushtaq as Baramulla district president.In central Kashmir, Agha Syed Mousin has been made Budgam district president and Ghulam Hassan the Ganderbal district president.(Source: PTI)The Railways has halted Friday's New Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express at Dadri near here and pressed security agencies into action after a passenger claimed there were "5 bombs in the train", officials said.Responding to the tweet, the Superintendent of Government Railway Police, Agra, wrote from its official handle, "Regarding the above information, all the senior officers have been made aware that the train is being stopped at the post GRP Dadri and is being checked with the joint efforts of RPF and GRP," it said in a tweet.(Source: PTI)Rakesh Wadhawan, chairman of HDIL, has been admitted to Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), Pallavi Saple of JJ Hospital said. Wadhawan is an accused in the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) case.(Source: ANI)India's economic growth rises to 4.7 percent in the December quarter of 2019, from 4.5 percent in the previous quarter. However, it is down from 5.6 percent a year ago, government data shows.(Source: PTI)Nepal's former deputy prime minister CP Mainali and four others were injured when their car collided with a pick-up truck coming from the opposite direction, police said on Friday.The accident took place on Thursday when Mainali and his family members were on their way to Kathmandu from Jhapa, according to District Police Office, Mahottari.He is currently undergoing medical treatment at Grande International Hospital in Kathmandu.Four others, including Mainali's son Saroj, daughter-in-law Puja, grandson and driver Ram Prasad Poudyal were injured in the accident.(Source: PTI)President Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday discussed implementing agreements for Syria's northern region of Idlib after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian fire, Russia's foreign minister said Friday."There is always room for dialogue. Today there were phone talks between presidents Putin and Erdogan... The conversation was detailed and devoted to the necessity to do everything" to implement agreements on Idlib, Sergei Lavrov told reporters.(Source: AFP)CBI books kin of film personality Ashoke Pandit, GST Assistant Commissioner Deepak Pandit, in disproportionate assets case, officials say.(Source: PTI)Nine accused in Elgar Parishad case produced in special NIA court in Mumbai; next hearing on 13 March.(Source: ANI)Fire breaks out at the terrace of an under-construction building in Naupada. Fire tenders present at the spot. More details awaited.(Source: ANI)The months of March, April and May are "likely to be warmer than normal" over northwest, west, central and parts of south India, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday in its summer forecast.Above normal heat wave conditions are also likely in the core heat wave (HW) zone during the season (March-May), it said.The core HW zone covers the states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana and parts of Maharashtra and coastal Andhra Pradesh.Three members of a family, including a woman, were injured when a portion of a ceiling slab in a residential building collapsed here on Friday morning, said a civic official.The family members resided on the first floor of the four-storey 'Trimurti' building at Natvar Nagar in suburban Jogeshwari, he said.Around 6 am, part of a slab of the ceiling on the second floor crashed on them, injuring the trio, the official said.The injured were admitted in a nearby private hospital, said the officer."The woman has suffered severe injuries and is being treated in the ICU," he said.Sessions Court of Calcutta has convicted two accused persons under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) in a money laundering case relating to terror financing.A computer teacher has been arrested for allegedly molesting 15 girl students during a computer class at a government school in Mahape area of Navi Mumbai. He has been remanded to police custody till 2 March. FIR has been registered under sections of IPC and POCSO Act.The Supreme Court granted anticipatory bail till 6 March to Congress leader Hardik Patel in 2015 case related to violence during Patidar stir in Gujarat. The apex court also sought Gujarat government's response on Patel's plea seeking quashing of FIR against him in the case.Bodies of four persons found in a house in Arthala area in Ghaziabad. The police has recovered a suicide note. Further investigation underway.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said the Balakot airstrikes had sent out a clear message that infrastructure across the border could not be used as safe havens for terrorists.“If we've to be prepared for the tasks assigned to us, then it's important we maintain credible deterrence at land, air and sea at all times,” Singh said at the Centre for Air Power Studies.Balakot airstrike conveyed India's clear message that infrastructure across the border won't be safe haven for terrorists. It forced rewriting of doctrines across the border, showed the country's resolve and capability, the defence minister said.The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on 2 March the plea of complainant law student that the rape case against former union minister Swami Chinmayanand be transferred to a Delhi court from Uttar Pradesh.A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was told by senior advocate Collin Gonsalves, appearing for the complainant woman that the rape case be transferred to Delhi as she apprehended a threat to her life in Uttar Pradesh.The bench, while agreeing to hear the matter, asked the lawyer to approach the administration for seeking protection.Gonsalves, however, said that a gunman has been given to her by the UP Police for her security.Earlier also a plea was filed against the Allahabad High Court order granting bail to Chinmayanand.The Supreme Court on Friday held as "illegal" the strike by advocates for the past 35 years on every Saturday in three districts of Uttarakhand.The top court said the strike in district courts of the state is tantamount to contempt, as it issued notices to the Bar Council of India and the Uttarakhand Bar Council over the issue.(Source: PTI)A seventh standard girl student allegedly abducted and gang-raped under Patrakar Nagar Police Station limits in Patna.“One person has been arrested. He will be produced before court tomorrow,” Station House Officer (SHO) Pramod Kumar said.Three children were killed and one was injured after a wall of their house collapsed in Hyderabad’s Mangar Basti area in Habeebnagar police station limits on Thursday night.Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the 24th Eastern Zonal Council meeting in Odisha's Bhubaneswar, today. The Council comprises states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.Twenty-two Turkish soldiers have been killed in an air strike blamed on Damascus in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, a Turkish official said early Friday, 28 February. The governor said that soldiers injured in the air strike had been brought back to Turkey for treatment but did not give a figure.(At The Quint, we are answerable only to our audience. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member. Because the truth is worth it.)

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