National & Internationaln news updates of March 18
Bengaluru, March 18: A day after Arvind Kejriwal met AAP leaders, Prashanth Bushan has denied report of his resignation from the party.
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10.50 pm: Amidst rising public anger over the mysterious death of upright IAS officer D K Ravi, several IAS officers in Karnataka have signed an online petition addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a CBI probe into the matter.
10.30 pm: At least 21 people in all were killed, including two gunmen in Tunisia.
10.15 pm: The Zilla Panchayat elections held in 50 constituencies in Goa records about 55 per cent voter turnout.
10.00 pm: Western governments give a muted reaction to the re-election of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
9.45 pm: PM Narendra Modi thanks 6-year-old boy for donating his savings for the PM relief fund.
9.30 pm: Project is about tech and spiritual dimension is everywhere, so project is imp, says André Borschberg, pilot of solar impulse 2.
Sun
powered
aircraft
'Solar
Impulse
2' arrives
in
Varanasi.
https://t.co/koeG8bPeZI
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March
18,
2015
9.00 pm: Sun powered aircraft 'Solar Impulse 2' arrives in Varanasi.
8.30 pm: If Govt doesn't handover inquiry to CBI, will req ppl to do 'pad yatra', syas Kumaraswamy on meeting late DK Ravi's family.
Ramban
(J&K):
Batote-Doda
National
highway
closed
due
to
fresh
landslide
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March
18,
2015
8.15 pm: Special prayer ahead of India-Bangladesh cricket World Cup quarter final match in Ranchi.
Ranchi:
Special
prayer
ahead
of
India-Bangladesh
cricket
World
Cup
quarter
final
match
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March
18,
2015
8.00 pm: CPIM protest over Ranaghat nun rape case in Kolkata.
7.45 pm: PM Narendra Modi tweets in Hebrew, congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu for his victory in Israel elections.
7.30 pm: A UK court has imposed a travel ban on a 16-year-old British Muslim boy fearing he may follow his two elder brothers who have been killed fighting in war-torn Syria.
7.00 pm: H D Kumaraswamy (JDS) meets late IAS officer DK Ravi's family.
6:55 pm: CBI carries out searches at residence of the then Executive Director of Antrix Corp and Devas office in Bangalore.
6:45 pm: At least 8 tourists killed in Tunisia parliament attack, other tourists held hostage at nearby museum by militants.
6:33 pm: CBI questions RIL vice president (finance) K V Mohanan.
6:24 pm: H D Kumaraswamy (JDS) meets late IAS officer DK Ravi's family in Bengaluru.
6:04 pm: Delhi Sikh delegation meets former PM Manmohan Singh in Delhi.
5:45 pm: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah meets late IAS officer DK Ravi's family.
5:33 pm: DK Ravi is 1 of those vanishing tribes of few courageous, efficient & honest officers in the country: Kiran Bedi, BJP.
5.15 pm: Cardinal Baselio Cleemis expressed confidence in West Bengal government, also said that everything will go positive in the state.
4.40 pm: A nun being gang raped makes international news; it already has serious implications and ramifications: BJP leader Kiran Bedi
4.30 pm: Strict rules for commissioning surrogacy, says Union Minister Kiren Rijiju.
4.20 pm: National Green Tribunal passes directions to Railway and other authorities in Delhi for maintaining cleanliness on railway tracks.
4:00 pm: DK Ravi's family protests in Bengaluru.
3.55 pm: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said that they are very serious about culprits and perpetrators involved in nun's rape and they have to be caught.
3.32 pm: Congress MLA Narayanaswamy pressurised DK Ravi, alleges family.
3.15 pm: BJP delegation led by Sadananda Gowda meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh; wants CBI probe in DK Ravi's death case
2.50 pm: West Bengal government to hand over Ranaghat nun gangrape case to CBI: Mamata Banerjee.
2.28 pm: SUCI protest outside Raj Bhavan over potato farmers' suicide cases in Kolkata
2.22 pm: Lawyers protest against State Govt over IAS officer DK Ravi's death case in Bengaluru
Bangalore:
Lawyers
protest
against
State
Govt
over
IAS
officer
DK
Ravi's
death
case
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March
18,
2015
2.00 pm: Farmers protest against Land Acquisition Bill at Jantar Mantar, Delhi
Delhi:
Farmers
protest
against
Land
Acquisition
Bill
at
Jantar
Mantar
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March
18,
2015
1.44 pm: Manish Sisodia warns Ryan International School of strict action for asking teachers, students to join BJP
1.05 pm: AAP leader Prashanth Bushan denies report of his resignation from the party.
1.00 pm: PM Narendra Modi presents the Batukbhai Dikshit award to 13 Gujarati journalists.
12: 55 pm: President Pranab Mukherjee to receive first copy of book "Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy - Speaker's perspective".
12.45 pm: NHRC issues notice to Haryana Govt over reports of Hisar church attack.
12.40 pm: Former Lokayukta Santosh Hegde demands CBI investigation into DK Ravi's death.
12.35 pm: Noisy scenes in Karnataka Assembly over IAS officer's death, BJP MLAs demand CBI inquiry.
Bangalore:
Chaos
in
Karnataka
Assembly
over
IAS
officer
DK
Ravi's
death
case,
JDS
&
BJP
MLAs
demand
CBI
inquiry
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March
18,
2015
12.30 pm: BJP protest in Bangalore, demands CBI probe in IAS officer DK Ravi's death.
12.25 pm: HD Kumaraswamy blames Karnataka CM for running away from CBI inquiry on DK Ravi's death.
12.20 pm: BJP MLAs protest outside Bihar Assembly over drug scam.
12.15 pm: Karnataka Assembly adjourned on DK Ravi issue.
12.10 pm: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerji today.
12.00 pm: Class 11 student jailed in UP, for an alleged 'anti-Azam' post on a social networking site.
11.40 am: Uproar in Jammu and Kashmir assembly during Governor's speech.
11.30 am: Robert Vadra expresses shock over Nun's rape, says, "It is a shame to answer the happenings in our country when abroad, as an Indian"
11.15 am: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis reaches Ranaghat to meet the septuagenarian nun.
11.00 am: NHRC issues notice to West Bengal state government over reports of the gang-rape on elderly nun in Nadia district.
10:30 am: Union Minister Sadananda Gowda to meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today,to demand CBI inquiry into IAS officer DK Ravi's death case.
10:15 am: Kavinder Gupta elected as the Speaker of Jammu & Kashmir assembly.
9.40 am: BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa demands CBI probe in IAS officer DK Ravi's death.
9.30 am: Former CM Kumaraswamy takes on Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, says state govt trying to divert issue, will continue protest for CBI probe.
9.15 am: The White House received poisonous cyanide packed in an envelope [Package containing cyanide received by White House]
9.10 am: Congress calls for bandh in Chhattisgarh after police lathi charged protesters during 'Kisan Nyay Yatra'.
8.34 am: Sun powered aircraft 'Solar Impulse 2' takes off from Ahmedabad, will reach Varanasi later today.
Sun
powered
aircraft
'Solar
Impulse
2'
takes
off
from
Ahmedabad,
will
reach
Varanasi
later
today.
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March
18,
2015
8.28 am: Jammu and Kashmir Assembly budget session to begin today.
8.10 am: AAP may go national, say sources.
8.00 am: Local fast track court of Ghaziabad, UP, awards 20 years sentence to 2 & imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on each of them in a 2013 gangrape case.
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