Bhaskar LIVE Updates: Huge fall in the stock market; BSE Sensex falls 800 points, investors lose 3.5 lakh crores

There is a huge fall in the stock market today. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex is trading at 55,050, down 800 points. Investors have suffered a loss of Rs 3.5 lakh crore.

The market cap of listed companies was Rs 250.07 lakh crore on Friday, which is Rs 246.50 lakh crore today. The Sensex was down 529 points at 55,329. It made the same upper and lower level of 55,073 in the first hour. Out of its 30 stocks, only 2 are trading in gains and remaining 28 in decline.

Today’s other big news…

Air India’s 5th flight carrying 249 Indians stranded in Ukraine reached Delhi, so far 1396 people have returned home

The Indian government is constantly trying to rescue Indian students trapped in the fighting areas of Ukraine.

5th Air India flight carrying 249 students and other Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine reached Delhi this morning. Air India flight number AI 1942 from Bucharest, Romania, landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 6:30 am on Monday.

Operation Ganga is being run by the government to airlift the stranded Indians in Ukraine. Under this, 1,147 people have already been brought to India from 4 flights. 928 Indians had reached their homeland from 3 flights that arrived on Sunday.

Sensation over triple murder in Gurugram; Criminals killed three youths by turning off the lights of CNG pumps

The police have sent the three bodies for post-mortem.

Unknown miscreants killed three youths by stabbing them at a CNG pump in Gurugram, adjacent to Delhi. The deceased have been identified as Pushpendra, Bhupinder and Naresh. It is being told that all the three youths were residents of Uttar Pradesh. The criminals carried out this incident at 3 pm last night at the CNG pump of Sector 31, adjacent to the National Highway. One of the three youths is a manager working at the pump.

The police have started investigation into the matter and have sent the bodies of the three for post-mortem. Police informed, ‘We had received information at 3 am that the body of a youth was lying at the CNG pump. After which we reached the spot and searched around and found 2 more bodies. According to the police, the criminals first switched off the lights of the CNG pump and then fled after killing the three youths.

PM Modi to address DPIIT’s post budget webinar on Gatishakti today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the post budget webinar of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) on Monday. This will be PM Modi’s first webinar on Gati Shakti after the budget. Senior officers from different departments and ministries of the Government of India, industry stalwarts, various high level stakeholders will be present in the webinar. The program will discuss on increasing the logistic capacity of the country.

DPIIT said in its statement that the objective of this webinar is to create synergy to accelerate economic growth. According to the statement, the Prime Minister will address all the participants on the vision of Gati Shakti and its convergence with the budget. After the Prime Minister’s address, the participants will participate in 5 sessions in which various aspects of the country’s logistics sector will be discussed.

BJP’s Bengal bandh today over violence in municipal elections; The state government did not give permission

The BJP has alleged that TMC workers misbehaved with women during the municipal elections.

The BJP has called for a 12-hour bandh on Monday (February 28) over allegations of violence and disturbances during the municipal elections in West Bengal. Here, the Bengal government has refused to allow any bandh or strike. It has been said by the state government that all schools and colleges will remain open. It will also be decided that essential services continue to run without any interruption.

Earlier, West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar had said that women were misbehaved in the municipal elections and hundreds of people went inside booths at different places. Democracy is being destroyed here. We have called for a 12-hour bandh (strike) on Monday. Congress has also supported Bengal Bandh.
Big action of ACB for taking bribe; 5 people including GST Additional Commissioner of Bhilwara arrested

5 people including GST Additional Commissioner arrested for taking bribe.

Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Jaipur, Rajasthan has arrested 5 people including Additional Commissioner of GST Circle Bhilwara for taking bribe. The ACB has accused all of them of taking a bribe of Rs 4 lakh from a middleman in Udaipur. ACB DGP BL Soni told that he had received a complaint in the tax department about a big racket being run to evade GST. A case has been registered against the accused under the Anti-Corruption Act. For now, the team has kept all of them in their custody.

India to buy 30 Predator drones with weapons from America

The deal was approved by the Trump administration only in 2017. This is the first time the US is selling armed drones to a non-NATO ally.

Negotiations with India for the purchase of 30 Predator armed drones from the US are in the final stages. Their estimated value is $3 billion. This is the first time the US is selling armed drones to a non-NATO ally. They are capable of hitting long distances with precision. The deal was announced by the former US President Donald Trump administration during his visit to the US in 2017 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Former cricketer Vinod Kambli arrested, granted bail

Former Test cricketer Vinod Kambli was arrested by Mumbai’s Bandra Police on Sunday evening. However, he was later released on bail. He is accused of ramming his car into the gate of his residential society in Bandra.