FIR Filed Against Elvish Yadav and Fazilpuria

India News: In today's news, AAP leaders addressed a press conference at noon today. Meanwhile, President Droupadi Murmu presented Bharat Ratna to Ex-PMs Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh and 2 others posthumously. Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot appeared before the ED in connection with the liquor scam. Republic brings you all the latest news updates from across the country. Stay tuned!

• FIR Against Elvish Yadav and Fazilpuria

The FIR was registered after the directions from Gurugram court. The FIR has been registered in Badshahpur P.S of Gurugram on the exploitation of snakes and extracting their venom. Elvish Yadav was earlier arrested by Noida Police in regards to exploiting snakes and exteacting the venom but was able to secure bail.

• ED has taken custody of Shahjahan Sheikh in land-grabbing case

Earlier on March 14, a court in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Thursday extended the CBI custody of Sandeshkhali strongman Shahjahan Sheikh by eight days.

• 9 Surrendered Pirates to Face Legal Action in India

After successfully forcing the surrender of 9 armed pirates, Indian Navy’s specialist teams have completed sanitisation & seaworthiness checks of FV Al-Kambar. The crew comprising 23 Pakistani nationals were given a thorough medical checkup prior to clearing the boat to continue with her fishing activities. The nine pirates are being brought to India for further legal action in accordance with the Maritime Anti-Piracy Act of 2022, said Indian Navy. 

• Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren to meet Congress leader Sonia Gandhi 

Former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren arrives at 10 Janpath to meet Congress leader Sonia Gandhi

• PM Modi to kickstart Lok Sabha election campaign in Uttar Pradesh tomorrow 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kickstart his Lok Sabha election campaign in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday with a rally in Meerut where the BJP has fielded actor Arun Govil of TV serial 'Ramayan' fame as its candidate.

• PM Modi to visit Mumbai on April 1 for the 90th anniversary of RBI   

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was set up on April 1, 1935. The Bank is planning to celebrate its 90th Anniversary from April 2024 to April 2025. PM Modi is going to visit Mumbai to take part in the occasion. 

• Navi Mumbai Police Seize Fake Notes Issued by ‘Children Bank of India’

The Navi Mumbai police have seized fake notes with a face value of Rs 13.5 lakh from two persons, an official said on Saturday. The seizure of the notes bearing the inscription “Children Bank of India, Full of Fun” was made near a temple in the Nerul area during a routine surveillance on Friday evening, he said. Dinesh Yashwant Dhaval (39) of Maharashtra's Raigad district and Shambhukumar Prabhudayal Sharma (32) from Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh, both currently living in Navi Mumbai, were carrying the bogus notes, he said.

• Excavation at Bhojshala Complex in MP Continues as Survey Enters Ninth Day
  Excavation process is currently going on at the Bhojshala/Kamal Maula mosque complex in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh as part of its court-mandated survey being conducted by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Soil and stones collected during the digging process are being preserved by the ASI, a person associated with the survey said on Saturday. This is the ninth day of the survey that began on March 22.
• 168 Roads Closed as Snow, Rains Lash Parts of Himachal Pradesh

Higher reaches and tribal areas received fresh spell of snow while low and middle hills were lashed by intermittent hail and rains on Saturday as the local MeT office predicted wet spell in Himachal Pradesh till April 4. A Himachal Roadways Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus turned turtle near Maling in the Kinnaur district after skidding on Saturday morning in the snow but no casualty was reported, an official said. 

Traffic came to a halt at the Atal Tunnel in Rohtang near Manali following heavy snow. Kalpa and Kukumseri received 5 cm of snow followed by Keylong with 3 cm of snow in the past 24 hours.

• Prez Confers Bharat Ratna on Ex-PMs Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh, 2 Others Posthumously

President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday conferred Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, on former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, posthumously at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The awards to Rao, Singh, Thakur and Swaminathan were received by their kin. P V Prabhakar Rao, the son of former prime minister Rao, received the award conferred on his father from the president. Jayant Chaudhary, Singh's grandson and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), accepted the honour from Murmu.

• Searches Conducted After Reports of Suspicious Movements in J&K's Rajouri

Security forces have conducted a thorough search operation following reports of suspicious movements in a forward area in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, officials said on Saturday. The joint search operation by the Army and police was conducted in Brevi Bajimal and Chrangal-Kabukot in the Dharamsal area on Friday, they added. The officials said the security forces fired a few rounds during the search of a natural cave at Brevi Bajimal but nothing was found there.

• Murder in Uttarakhand Gurdwara: FIR Lodged Against Five, Including Retired IAS

Five people, including a retired IAS officer, have been booked in connection with the killing of the dera kar seva chief of the Nanakmatta Sahib Gurdwara in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district, police said on Saturday. Baba Tarsem Singh was shot dead on Thursday on the shrine's premises by two men on a motorcycle. Those named in the FIR include the two assailants -- Sarabjit Singh and Amarjeet Singh -- IAS officer Harbans Singh Chugh who heads the Nanakmatta Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, Baba Anup Singh and Pritam Singh Sandhu, the vice-president of a regional Sikh outfit, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manjunath TC said.

• Income Tax Dept Raids Builders, Realtors in Bengaluru
  I-T officials conducted raids at more than 20 locations across Bengaluru in the wee hours of Saturday. Raids were conducted at several places including KR puram and Kodigehalli. Several builders' office and houses were raided. The I-T team is currently examining documents, accounts, bank statements of those who have been raided.
• Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi to Address Press Conference at Noon Today
• Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot Summoned by ED in Liquor Scam Today
• President to Present Bharat Ratna to Former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur Today

His son & Jd(U) Leader Ram Nath Thakur said, the people of Bihar and the country are as happy as I am today. Nitish Kumar ji had continuously appealed to Govt of India to confer Bharat Ratna on Karpoori Thakur Ji

• Rajasthan Congress to Hold Protest Against I-T Notices, Freezing of Bank Accounts Today
• Activist Navdeep Singh Jalbera Arrested Ahead of Farmers' Gathering on Sunday

Farmer activist Navdeep Singh Jalbera has been arrested by the Haryana Police in connection with an FIR registered during the farmers' "Delhi Chalo" protest last month. The development comes ahead of a gathering convened by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mukti Morcha (KMM) on Sunday to pay homage to Shubhkaran Singh (21), a farmer from Punjab's Bathinda who was killed in a clash with police at the Punjab-Haryana border on February 21. The Ambala Police arrested Jalbera from Mohali on Thursday.