- The water of Mahanadi and Brahmani rivers is polluted due to discharge of waste into the rivers in urban areas, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Pradip Kumar Amat told the Assembly Tuesday.
- The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed the Centre’s curative plea seeking an additional ₹7,844 crore from the Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) successor firms to extend higher compensation to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy that left over 3,000 people dead and caused environmental damage.
- Man-elephant conflict has claimed the lives of 784 elephants and 925 persons in the state in a span of 10 years— between 2012 and 2022, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Pradip Kumar Amat told the Assembly, Tuesday.
- A hotter than normal summer is expected in 2023 with temperatures likely to reach 2-3 degree Celsius above normal in some parts of Indo-Gangetic plains and eastern India during the last week of March, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) told a high level meeting on Tuesday.
- The Bombay High court Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking a disproportionate assets case against former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav.
- A total of 63 police stations don’t have any vehicle, 628 don’t have any telephone connection and 285 don’t have a wireless set or mobile phone said Nityanand Rai, Union Minister of State for Home.
- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Rajiv Arun Ekka, the former principal secretary to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Wednesday in connection with the money laundering case linked to suspended IAS officer Pooja Singhal, official sources said on Tuesday.
- Tamil author Perumal Murugan’s novel ‘Pyre' is among 13 books from across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America to make it to the longlist of the International Booker Prize 2023, announced by the Booker Prize Foundation here Tuesday.
- The country has exported wheat worth `11,728.36 crore during the April-January period of this fiscal year, the government said Tuesday. In May, 2022, the government had banned exports of wheat to boost domestic availability and control prices.
- The wholesale price-based inflation declined to over two-year low of 3.85 per cent in February on easing prices of manufactured items, fuel and power, even though food articles remained expensive.
- The Competition Commission of India (CCI) Tuesday said it has approved Reliance Retail Venture's acquisition of German firm Metro AG's wholesale operations in India. Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL) is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) while Metro Cash & Carry India is engaged in the wholesale operations in India.
- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said corrective measures should be taken if "mistakes" were committed in the recruitment process but no one should be terminated from services as they have families to take care of.
- INS Dronacharya, the Gunnery School of the Indian Navy, will be awarded the prestigious President's Colour on March 16 by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, informed the government on Tuesday.
- Union Ministry of Home Affairs has said in Lok Sabha that over 5.5 lakh prisoners are lodged in Indian jails against a prisoner lodging capacity of 4.4 lakh, as per the latest data of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
- Lakhs of employees of the Maharashtra government went on an indefinite strike from Tuesday seeking restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), affecting services, including in state-run hospitals.
- Recommendation has been given for suspension or cancellation of 8,100 arms licences in Punjab, a top state police official said on Tuesday.
- Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai has said he would not mind moving out of the 450-year-old heritage structure of Raj Bhavan so that the historical premises can be opened for public viewing.
- A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail application of alleged middleman Christian Michel in a corruption case related to alleged AgustaWestland scam considering the "serious nature of accusations" and "gravity of offence".
- The government and the Judiciary are working as a team but some "actors in the society" are trying to portray that there is a misunderstanding or conflict between the two, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Tuesday.
- India’s star batter Virat Kohli has admitted that not being able to make any substantial contribution to team India’s cause for a long time was “eating him up” and he let the expectations overwhelm him a bit because he was desperate to score a big Test hundred.
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