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55,000 households usage Census self-enumeration portal connected time one
Around 55,000 households utilized the self-enumeration portal connected the archetypal time of the Population Census 2027 website that went unrecorded successful 8 States and Union Territories, the Union Home Ministry said connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026). The online details will, however, beryllium verified by enumerators during door-to-door survey 15 days later. Among the archetypal to capable successful the details of 33 questions being asked successful the archetypal phase– the House Listing Operations and Housing Census (HLO) – were President Droupadi Murmu, Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
NASA astronauts blast disconnected for historical U.S. lunar journey
Four astronauts blasted disconnected aboard a monolithic NASA rocket connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) connected a long-anticipated travel astir the Moon, the archetypal crewed lunar flyby successful much than 50 years. With an aggravated roar that reverberated acold beyond the launchpad, the tremendous orange-and-white rocket carried 3 Americans and 1 Canadian distant from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre astatine astir 6:35 p.m. section time, according to an AFP journalist onsite.
Modi chairs Cabinet sheet conscionable connected West Asia crisis
Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) chaired a peculiar gathering of the Cabinet Committee connected Security (CCS) to reappraisal measures taken by assorted Ministries and departments, and besides discussed further initiatives to beryllium taken successful the discourse of the ongoing West Asia conflict. Cabinet Secretary briefed astir the enactment taken to guarantee proviso of petroleum products, peculiarly LNG/LPG, and capable powerfulness availability, an authoritative merchandise said.
Hope for Bengal electors pending nether adjudication, but uncertainty implicit redressal astatine tribunals
The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) informed the Supreme Court that judicial officers had already disposed of astir 47 lakh of the 60 lakh claims nether adjudication during the Special Intensive Revision successful West Bengal. During the hearing, a three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant took enactment of the High Court Chief Justice’s assurance that the remaining claims would beryllium disposed of by April 7. Electors whose names are struck disconnected during adjudication tin attack appellate tribunals presided implicit by erstwhile Chief Justices and judges of High Courts. Though the Election Commission of India notified the tribunals connected April 20, they are yet to statesman functioning.
Excise case: Kejriwal asked to reply to plea against discharge
The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday sought erstwhile Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s response to an Enforcement Directorate (ED) plea challenging his acquittal successful 2 abstracted cases linked to the excise argumentation case. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma issued announcement to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) nationalist convener connected 2 petitions filed by the ED against a proceedings court’s January 22 orders acquitting him, and posted the substance for proceeding connected April 29. In its ailment earlier the proceedings court, the ED had alleged that Mr. Kejriwal, who was past Chief Minister, deliberately disobeyed aggregate summonses and failed to articulation the investigation. The bureau besides claimed that helium raised “frivolous objections” and intentionally created grounds to debar appearing earlier investigators. In its ruling, the proceedings tribunal had held that the ED failed to found that Mr. Kejriwal had intentionally disobeyed the summonses issued to him.
PM’s policies pushing state deeper into crisis, says Priyanka
Congress person Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pushing the state deeper into crisis by becoming a enslaved of the United States. Addressing rallies for the candidates of the Congress and state Assam Jatiya Parishad successful eastbound Assam connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026), she besides said the radical of the State were bushed of the “mafia and syndicate rule” of the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government.
Navy was minutes distant from striking Pakistan from oversea during Operation Sindoor: Admiral Tripathi
The Indian Navy was minutes distant from striking Pakistan from the oversea during Operation Sindoor, erstwhile Islamabad requested stoppage of kinetic actions, Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi said connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026). The Navy Chief was speaking astatine the naval investiture ceremonial here, wherever helium awarded Yudh Seva Medals to 2 apical naval officers for their distinguished work during Operation Sindoor conducted past twelvemonth aft the Pahalgam panic attack. Operation Sindoor demonstrated exemplary readiness and resoluteness of the Indian Navy, arsenic its units undertook swift deployment and maintained a highly assertive posture passim the period, helium said.
Amit Shah asks Manipur CM to accelerate bid process, approves enactment of all-woman constabulary battalion
Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) asked Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh to accelerate the ongoing bid process successful the State and approved the instauration of an all-woman constabulary battalion, according to a Manipur Government statement. Mr. Singh called connected the Home Minister astatine Parliament House complex, wherever the 2 leaders discussed the instrumentality and bid concern successful the State.
Trump says Iran president requests ceasfire, Tehran says ‘false’
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran’s president had asked for a ceasefire, but ruled retired immoderate truce until the captious Strait of Hormuz was reopened for important vigor shipments. But his assertion was flatly denied by Iran, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei rejecting it arsenic “false and baseless”. Trump made the remarks up of a prime-time code astatine 9:00 p.m. (0100 GMT Thursday) -- his archetypal since US-Israeli strikes connected Iran connected February 28 ignited a determination warfare and sparked a planetary vigor crisis.
Israeli onslaught connected Beirut kills elder Hezbollah commander
Israel killed a apical Hezbollah commandant connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026), 2 sources told AFP, successful a Beirut onslaught that Lebanon’s Health Ministry said killed 7 people. A Lebanese information root and a Hezbollah root told AFP that the commander, Youssef Hashem, had been liable for the group’s subject affairs successful Iraq and was successful a gathering wrong a structure erstwhile Israel struck. Israel’s subject said Hashem was Hezbollah’s commandant for its southbound Lebanon front.
‘Local boy’ Rizvi takes Capitals home
It took the Uttar Pradesh-born Sameer Rizvi’s familiarity with the conditions astatine the Ekana Cricket Stadium for Delhi Capitals to tide implicit an aboriginal situation and station a six-wicket triumph against Lucknow Super Giants successful their Indian Premier League opener present connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026). Rizvi got disconnected the people with a hurried azygous disconnected his ninth ball. The Capitals had mislaid 4 wickets successful the PowerPlay, and a 142-run people didn’t warrant recklessness. In an epoch of frenetic hitting, the 22-year-old Rizvi displayed maturity. He betrayed his Gen Z traits lone successful the eighth implicit erstwhile helium ramped the pacy Anrich Nortje for a six implicit third-man
