- India at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) advocated the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) saying that it is important to ensure its implementation in letter and spirit.
- Ukraine has accused Russian forces of committing war crimes by deliberately shelling residential areas.
- Russia will start work on its own Mars mission given that the European Space Agency (ESA) has suspended a joint project in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, Interfax news agency quoted a top official as saying on Friday.
- India reported a total of 2,528 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to 4,30,04,005. While death count rose to 5,16,281 with 149 fresh Covid-related fatalities on Thursday.
- Fashion-designer-turned-MLA Agnimitra Paul will run against Shatrughan Sinha of the Trinamool Congress in the by-election to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency, the BJP announced on Friday.
- Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Friday visited a Gurudwara in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and paid obeisance.
- Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday met party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, a day after the core group of its 'G-23' dissidents, held a third round of discussions following the massive election drubbing.
- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha police has arrested Deepak Kindo, the managing director of Sambandh Finserve Pvt. Ltd, in connection with a Rs 109 crore fraud case, officials said on Friday.
- Tragedy marred Holi celebrations as seven youths were swept away in Kharasrota river in Odisha’s Jajpur district.
- The Crime Branch of Odisha Police has arrested a youth from Bihar for allegedly selling data of bank customers to fraudsters who committed fraud on the pretext of updating KYC of bank customers.
- Vivek Agnihotri’s latest venture, ‘The Kashmir Files’, has been setting records at the box office. The film, featuring Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, and Pallavi Joshi, has entered the 100 crore club on Friday.
- Prime Minister, Narendra Modi via video conferencing inaugurated the centenary year celebrations of Mathrubhumi that were conducted at Kozhikode, Kerela on Friday.
- India batter Smriti Mandhana admitted playing against Australia ignites a fire inside her ahead of a repeat of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2017 semi-final at Eden Park on Saturday.
- Biennial Rajya Sabha election is scheduled to be held for five seats of Punjab, three seats of Kerala, two seats of Assam and one seat each in Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Tripura on 31st of this month. Nominations can be filed till 21st March.
- Ten ministers, including a woman, will be inducted in the Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab on Saturday. Among the 10 ministers, eight are first-time MLAs.
- The Central government provided 'Y' category security cover to 'The Kashmir Files' director Vivek Agnihotri with CRPF cover pan India.
- US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday discussed the Russia-Ukraine conflict for nearly two hours on a video call. Xi told Biden that conflicts and confrontations were in no-one's interests, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.
- Ukrainian ballet star Artyom Datsishin has lost his life amid Russia's ongoing military operation in the Eastern European country.
- There are 417 registered Geographical Indication (GI) tagged products, of which around 150 GI tagged products are agricultural and food products, the Centre said.
- Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is visiting India on March 19 and will hold discussions on global and regional issues with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
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