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Fire adjacent U.S. consulate successful Dubai aft drone attack: govt statement
A drone onslaught caused a occurrence adjacent the U.S. consulate successful Dubai connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026), a authorities connection said, aft the U.S. embassy successful Riyadh was deed by an Iranian strike. Nearby residents told AFP they heard a large bang, and 1 idiosyncratic said she past saw a occurrence astatine the consulate.
Government sets up inter-ministerial sheet to show and instrumentality enactment connected Iran warfare commercialized impact
The authorities has created an Inter-Ministerial Group to “facilitate effectual coordination, monitoring and follow-up” of the events unfolding successful Iran and the region, and their interaction connected India’s exports and imports, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026).
Congress, DMK basal their ground, neglect to seal pact
Despite elder Congress person P. Chidambaram stepping successful and holding an hour-long gathering with DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, connected Tuesday to interruption the crystal implicit seat-sharing for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election, the spread betwixt the Congress’s expectations and the DMK’s connection persisted, preventing the 2 parties from finalising a pact. Sources said the DMK raised its connection from 25 to 27 Assembly seats and 1 Rajya Sabha seat, portion the Congress enactment is demanding 30 Assembly seats and a Rajya Sabha seat.
Indian airlines program to run 58 flights to West Asia connected March 4: Govt
“Special arrangements are being made to facilitate the question of stranded passengers, with airlines deploying further capableness wherever required and coordinating intimately with overseas aviation authorities and Indian missions overseas to guarantee harmless and orderly rider movement. A full of 24 flights are being operated by Indian carriers today. In addition, Emirates and Etihad person operated 9 flights from the Gulf successful the past 24 hours,” the Civil Aviation Ministry said successful a statement.
‘India has 25 days of crude lipid successful reserve and 25 days of petrol, diesel stock’
India has capable stocks of crude lipid and vigor products (petrol and diesel) for the adjacent 25 days each, cumulatively accounting for 50 days of sufficiency, sources successful the authorities said connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026). “We are successful a reasonably comfy presumption arsenic acold arsenic crude lipid is concerned,” a root said, adding, “We person crude lipid successful reserve for 25 days, alongside vigor products for 25 days arsenic well.”
Iran-Israel war: India cannot stay ‘impervious’ if Indians are wounded successful the Gulf conflict, says MEA
The information of astir 1 crore Indian citizens successful the West Asian region is of “utmost priority” to India, the Ministry of External Affairs said connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026), expressing “grave anxiety” astir the unfolding struggle betwixt Israel-U.S. and Iran.Given its “critical stakes” successful the region, India cannot stay “impervious” if Indian nationals successful the portion are “negatively” affected, the MEA said successful a statement, besides informing of the interaction connected commercialized and vigor proviso chains.
Election Commission acceptable to denote canvass dates for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, Puducherry aft panel’s Bengal visit
The Election Commission of India volition sojourn Kerala and West Bengal connected March 6-7 and March 9-10, respectively, to reappraisal preparedness for the upcoming Assembly polls. Sources said the canvass docket tin beryllium announced immoderate clip aft the West Bengal visit. The Commission has already visited poll-bound Tamil Nadu, Assam, and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Rural jobs strategy workers emblem glitches successful monitoring app
Several workers enrolled nether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) person complained astir glitches pursuing the latest update to the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS), the mobile exertion utilized to grounds their attendance.
Mamata stresses connected secularism; Suvendu raises Hindutva pitch
Ahead of the Assembly polls in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) utilized the commencement day of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to accent the State’s contented of secularism, portion Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari raised the transportation of hindutva.
Meta takes down societal media handles of salient Jammu and Kashmir quality outlets
Social media handles of respective quality outlets based successful Jammu and Kashmir were taken down connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) by Meta, which runs Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The determination came successful the aftermath of wide protests successful J&K for the past 3 days implicit the sidesplitting of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei connected February 28.
