In your evening news brief, Sachin Vaze was suspended from police force; wholesale price-based inflation rose for the second consecutive month in February to 4.17%; External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar says India will take up with the UK when required the alleged incidents of racism in Britain and Lilly Singh sports a "I stand with farmers" mask at the red carpet of 2021 Grammy Awards.
Here is the top news of March 15, 2021:
Facing charges of planting gelatin stick-laden Scorpio SUV near the Mumbai home of top businessman Mukesh Ambani, Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze was suspended from the police force.
The Special Branch of Mumbai Police on Monday placed him under suspension.
Vaze (49) was attached to the Crime Intelligence Unit of Crime Branch of Mumbai police.
The wholesale price-based inflation rose for the second consecutive month in February to 4.17 per cent, as food, fuel and power prices spiked.
The WPI inflation was 2.03 per cent in January and 2.26 per cent in February last year. After witnessing months of softening of prices, the food articles in February saw 1.36 per cent inflation. In January it was (-) 2.80 per cent.
India will take up with the UK when required the alleged incidents of racism in Britain, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. He also described India as the land of Mahatma Gandhi and said it can never turn its eye away from racism.
Responding to concerns raised by a BJP MP over racism and cyberbullying that forced Indian-origin Rashmi Samant to resign as president of the Oxford University Students Union, the minister said New Delhi has strong ties with the UK and will take up such matters with great candour when required.
Indo-Canadian YouTube star and late-night talk show host Lilly Singh sported a "I stand with farmers" mask at the red carpet of 2021 Grammy Awards to reiterate her support to the ongoing farmers agitation in India.
The 32-year-old social media personality took to Twitter and posted a picture of herself from the 63rd edition of the Grammy Awards.
Singh wrote that since there's intense media spotlight on the red carpet, this was the perfect opportunity to show her solidarity with farmers.