Breaking News Live: Russian air strike hits Ukraine infrastructure in western region, governor says

"Article 239AA of the Constitution gives you the responsibility for Police and Public Order. Kindly ensure that swift and strongest possible action is taken against the perpetrators of this horrendous crime," Delhi Minister Atishi wrote.

Pope Francis skipped reading his homily during a Palm Sunday Mass for tens of thousands of people St. Peter's Square but continued presiding at the service.
In recent weeks the 87-year-old pope has been suffering on and off from bronchitis and influenza in recent weeks and has delegated an aide to read his addresses for him but on Sunday his prepared text was not read at all.

It is very unusual for a pope to totally skip a homily at a major event such as Palm Sunday.

A person was killed and five others including a police officer were wounded as a result of an early morning shooting on Sunday in Indianapolis, police said. Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers in full uniform were working in off-duty employment at a bar in the 9400 block on East Washington Street when there was a disturbance in the parking lot around 1:30 a.m., Chief Christopher Bailey said during a news conference at the scene.

Both officers exchanged gunfire with at least one suspect and one officer was shot in the upper thigh and sustained an additional shoulder injury that may have occurred when he fell after being shot, according to Bailey, who said the officer was in stable condition and expected to be released from a hospital on Sunday.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday rubbished the Karnataka government's claim that the Centre was not releasing its due share of 'special grants' as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission. She denied that there was any recommendation by the Finance Commission. "Karnataka government claims that Rs 5,495 crore special grant was not released to Karnataka and this is totally false. The Finance Commission did not in its final report recommend any such special grant," the Finance Minister claimed. Sitharaman's statement came a day after Karnataka filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court requesting a direction to the Centre to immediately release grants under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to the state, which is reeling under acute drought.

The International Baloch Rights Organisation, an offshoot of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), on Sunday initiated a series of protests in remembrance of the Pakistani Occupation of Balochistan observed on March 27 every year and held its first protest in Germany's Berlin, the BNM said in a press release.

In a post on X, BNM said, "BNM's Germany Chapter staged a protest in Berlin, observing March as the black day when the Pakistan Army marched on March 27th, 1948, and forcibly annexed Balochistan. Since then, the people of Balochistan have rejected Pakistan and resisted Pakistani occupation".

Russia violated Poland's airspace early on Sunday with a cruise missile launched at targets in western Ukraine, Poland's armed forces said.

Russia launched 57 missiles and drones on Ukraine in the early hours, including attacking Kyiv and the western region of Lviv that is near the Polish border.

"On March 24 at 4:23 a.m. (0323 GMT), there was a violation of Polish airspace by one of the cruise missiles launched overnight by long-range aviation of the Russian Federation," the armed forces said on the social media platform X.

"The object entered Polish space near the town of Oserdow (Lublin Voivodeship) and stayed there for 39 seconds. During the entire flight, it was observed by military radar systems."

The Polish Foreign Ministry said it would demand explanations from Russia over the airspace violation.

A Russian air strike hit Ukrainian critical infrastructure in the western Lviv region on Sunday morning, local governor Maksym Kozytskyi said.

"There were two preliminary hits to the same critical infrastructure facility that the occupiers targeted at night," Kozytskyi said on the Telegram messaging app.

He was accompanied by Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Pande and General Officer Commanding, Fire and Fury Corps Lt Gen Rashim Bali.

The Senegalese on Sunday began voting for a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis, AFP journalists observed.
Around 7.3 million voters are registered in the West African nation where two favourites have emerged: the ruling coalition's former prime minister Amadou Ba and anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Saturday that at least 32,226 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants.The toll includes at least 84 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 74,518 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7.

Four workers, who were injured in a boiler blast at a spare parts manufacturing facility in Haryana's Rewari, have died, taking the death toll in the incident to 14, police said on Sunday. While three of them died at the PGIMS, Rohtak on Saturday, one passed away on Sunday, Inspector Jagdish Chand, SHO of Dharuhera (Rewari) police station, said.The blast took place at the manufacturing facility in Dharuhera industrial area on March 16, leaving 40 workers injured.Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini had on Wednesday met the victims at the hospital.

Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh to contest from Munger and Lovely Anand from Sheohar.

Firefighters were deployed at the spot, and the fire was brought under control.

"AMMK to contest on two seats in NDA alliance: TTV Dhinakaran to contest from Theni and Senthilnathan to contest from Trichy," he said.

The ASI began an archaeological survey of the Bhojshala Complex on 22nd March.

Australia's Tasmania appeared to be headed for a minority government on Sunday as vote counting continued after a lack of a clear winner from an election in the southern island state.

The conservative Liberal government, led by Premier Jeremy Rockliff, was on track to win the most seats in the new parliament but likely fall short of a majority after Saturday's election, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported.

The election was sparked after defections from Rockliff's party plunged the only Liberal government among Australia's six states and two self-governing territories into minority.

Rockliff told reporters that voters had given the Liberals "a mandate to form a new government".

"We've won the most seats and indeed the most votes and so the Tasmanian people have not voted to change the government," he said in the state capital, Hobart.

Slovak parliament speaker Peter Pellegrini and ex-foreign minister Ivan Korcok will face off in April's presidential election runoff, preliminary results showed Saturday.Former prime minister Pellegrini earned 40.39 percent backing with two-thirds of the vote counted, while the liberal Korcok won 36.90 percent, the Slovak Statistics Office said.

A vessel was struck Saturday by "an unidentified projectile" off Yemen, where Houthi rebels have intensified attacks on Red Sea shipping, the British navy's United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations said.

The hit caused a fire that was "successfully extinguished" and both the vessel and the crew were "reported safe", UKMTO said.

It added the ship was on its way to its next port of call