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As many as 12 Boeing 737 MAX belonging to SpiceJet were grounded on Wednesday and the aircraft's overflying banned in India amid global backlash following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight last week. The low cost carrier is expected to cancel at least 35 of its daily 520 flights from Thursday till it can make an alternate arrangement.

India's head coach Ravi Shastri says Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul needed "the rap on their knuckles", referring to the duo's sexist comments on a popular TV show.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the UPA will reserve 33% government jobs for women and pass the Women's Reservation Bill giving 33% of seats in Lok Sabha if it wins Lok Sabha battle. Interacting with students of Stella Maris College for Women, he also said that the UPA government would simplify the procedures in the GST.

The BJP on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to declare West Bengal a "super sensitive state" to ensure fair Lok Sabha elections there and demanded that central forces be deployed at all polling stations in the state. The BJP is trying to make inroads into TMC's bastion state (West Bengal) which has 42 Lok Sabha seats.

She said Pakistan would not admit having lost the F-16 or its pilot, much like it did not acknowledge the “sacrifices” of its regular soldiers during the Kargil conflict. The F-16 pilot was beaten up by local villagers in Pakistan, and probably died in a hospital, said Sitharaman, adding that “Pakistan lives in a state of denial.”

The fate of the proposal to designate Pakistan-based Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council will be known in less than 24 hours when the deadline to raise objections to the bid expires. The proposal to designate Azhar under the 1267 al-Qaida sanctions committee of the UN Security Council was moved by France, UK and the US on February 27.

The Faizabad administration had issued notices to the 25 litigants on behalf of the panel. The mediation process will take place at a hall at the Faizabad Avadh University, they said, adding that no one has been allowed to enter the area where the mediation is taking place.

India won the first two ODIs in Hyderabad and Nagpur, and just when it looked that Virat Kohli & Co are on their way to another impressive series victory, the Aussies roared back to win in Ranchi and Mohali to square it at 2-2.

All the Boeing 737 Max of SpiceJet will be grounded before 4 pm on Wednesday. Late on Tuesday night, India had ordered grounding of this aircraft with immediate effect. However, flight tracking sites showed SpiceJet B737 Max were still operating flights on Wednesday morning.

Thirteen Boeing 737 Max of SpiceJet were grounded on Tuesday night after India also issued this order after a host of other countries like China, Indonesia, Malaysia, UK, Australia and Singapore, to name a few. Struggling-to-survive Jet Airways has over 54 out of its fleet of 119 planes grounded. IndiGo has cancelled 30 flights daily till early April due to pilot shortage.

Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar meets the criteria to be designated as a global terrorist and not doing so is against regional stability and peace, the US said. After Pulwama attack, three permanent members of the UNSC –- the United States, Britain and France –- have moved a resolution to designate Azhar as a global terrorist.

The first question asked by the CJI-led bench was why the government had not set up a permanent mechanism, as ordered by the Supreme Court in 2018, to investigate any unnatural increase in the assets of a legislator or their spouses and dependants.

SpiceJet will have to immediately ground the 12-13 B737 MAX planes in its fleet. Five MAX planes of Jet Airways have been grounded for some time now, due to non-payment of lease rentals. A large number of countries and standalone airlines have grounded the B737 MAX.

Amit Shah denied the opposition’s charge that unemployment had worsened, saying that claims that jobs were not generated at a time of rapid expansion of infrastructure did not make sense. Available data did not fully capture job creation, he added.

According to sources, when asked about a Rs 64-crore loan given by Videocon group to Deepak Kochhar’s company NuPower Renewables a day after a Rs 300-crore loan was disbursed to a Videocon group company by the bank, Kochhar said she didn’t discuss her bank related work with her husband or vice-versa.