News in Brief (March 9): National, international news updates of the day

Bengaluru, March 9: Get the latest national and international news updates here:

10.00 pm: Indian Premier League: BCCI mulls on banning cheerleaders, after-match parties

9.25 pm: Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah summoned by Enforcement Directorate in a terror financing case

8.50 pm: CPI-M demands statement from WB CM on her meeting with PM, says it's an attempt to save her party from clutches of CBI in Saradha scam

8.25 pm: Bids worth Rs 94,000 cr received at the end of 31 rounds of telecom spectrum auction - PTI

7.50 pm: Ally Shiv Sena keeps BJP on tenterhooks; says it's undecided on issue of Land Acquisition Bill that will come up in Lok Sabha tomorrow.

7.30 pm: Swine flu toll crosses 1,400-mark even as Assam registered its first casualty from the H1N1 virus

7.20 pm: Uddhav Thackeray seeks criminal case against Mufti Sayeed, asks whether a CM has right to release people like Masrat Alam.

7.12 pm: SMS services back up in Nagaland. They were blocked on Sunday after the lynching of a rape-accused on March 5.

6:55 pm: The re-examination of the woman, allegedly raped by a driver of Uber cab service provider, continues for the third day in a Delhi Court.

6:43 pm: Congress protest over Masarat Alam's release in Bangalore.

6:26 pm: Pakistan High Commission keeps on meeting hurriyat leaders, it happens under GoI knowledge, it's for GoI to take note and explain, said CPI leader D Raja.

6:12 pm: Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says future architecture of the web should not be a prerogative of a few and should be open to all.

5:43 pm: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's plan to end reincarnation blasphemous, says China.

5:21 pm: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare to set off month-long 'padyatra' (foot-march) against land bill on March 25 from Sevagram.

4:57 pm: Masarat Alam's release aimed at facilitating talks with separatists, says PDP.

4:35 pm: Ashok Chavan takes charge as President of MPCC in Mumbai.

4:12 pm: Nothing to suggest that this is a racially motivated attack, said Michael Willing, New South Wales Police Detective Superintendent on India techie Prabha Kumar's murder case.

4:00 pm: Got hurried up, didn't think about few crucial points, but it's learning experience, said Saina Nehwal on All England Open Championship.

3:45 pm: Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani meets Pakistani envoy Abdul Basit in Delhi.

3:38 pm: Prashant Bushan,Yogendra Yadav should be removed from AAP as they conspired with BJP to defeat party in Delhi, says Bhagwant Mann.

3:36 pm: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.

3:30 pm: Sydney murder -I've just spoken to Mr Arun Kumar husband of victim, He is satisfied with assistance from Consulate: EAM Sushma Swaraj tweets

3:00 pm: FIR registered, neighbors said, he (Assam youth) was trying to break into their house, matter has nothing to do with racial divide: BS Bassi

2:50 pm: SC issued notice to Bhavani Singh after a petition was filed by a DMK leader seeking removal of Bhavani Singh as SPP on technical grounds

2:45 pm: Cash van of a private bank robbed in Mohali (Punjab),cash worth Rs 1 crore 35 lakh looted by culprits.

2:30 pm: AAP's National Council to meet in the last week of March 2015.

2:00 pm: The Prime Minister stated that he is fully committed for West Bengal's and Kolkata's development.

India should accept the hot reality that Jammu and Kashmir is disputed territory & not part of India: SAS Geelani pic.twitter.com/BY6WsMukVs

— ANI (@ANI_news) March 9, 2015

1:30 pm: India should accept the hot reality that Jammu and Kashmir is disputed territory & not part of India: SAS Geelani

1:00 pm: We asked for a clarification on the Masrat Alam issue, when it comes we will inform you: PM Narendra Modi to opposition in Lok Sabha

12:30 pm: 10 TDP MLAs who have been suspended from Telangana assembly till March 31st protesting outside Telangana assembly

12:00: Sad event that happened, our consulate gnrl was informed and they have been engaged with the authorities: MEA on Prabha Kumar's murder

11:34 am: PM will hand over homes built by us in Jaffna for displaced people.. flagship progrm of our cooperation. so far we have built 27,000 houses and the ones that are going to be handed over by the PM are those houses: S Jayashankar

11:30 am:PM's visit to SL will be a bilateral visit after 28 yrs, we have a broad substantive relation: Foreign Secy

11:25 am: PM Modi's visit will be the first Prime Ministerial visit to Seychelles since 1981: MEA

11:00 am: Slogans of "PM Jawaab do" raised in LS regarding Masrat Alam's release.

11:00 am: Verdict in Satyam fraud case adjourned to 9th April'15

10:41 am: Congress Parliamentary Party meeting scheduled for today evening at 6:30 pm.

10:37 am: Nagaland Lynching: 18 arrested

Onus is on GoI to handle such situations before more violence happens against NE ppl: Binalakshmi Nepram, NE activist pic.twitter.com/cLrxlHayDi

— ANI (@ANI_news) March 9, 2015

10: 16 am: Onus is on GoI to handle such situations before more violence happens against NE ppl: Binalakshmi Nepram, NE activist

9:23 am: Solar plane takes off for world tour from Abu Dhabi

9:20 am: Anna Hazare at Gandhi Ashram in Sevagram (Maharashtra). He will meet NGO leaders today to dcd date to commence "padyatra" to pressure GoI against ‘anti-farmer' provisions in Land Acquisition Bill.

9:05 am: CP(I)M slams Mamata-Modi meeting

Fresh snowfall in Srinagar (J&K) pic.twitter.com/ZUwiT5udpY

— ANI (@ANI_news) March 9, 2015

Fresh snowfall in Srinagar (J&K) pic.twitter.com/vC0BZmckQs

— ANI (@ANI_news) March 9, 2015

8:30 am: Fresh snowfall in Srinagar

8:11 am: WB CM Mamata Banerjee to meet PM Narendra Modi today.

8:00 am: Verdict in Satyam fraud case likely to come out today

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