LIVE News Updates: Congress, Sena mock Maha BJP chief's 'political earthquake after March 10' remark

The Shiv Sena and the Congress, part of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, have made light of BJP leader Chandrakant Patil's reported prediction that there would be a "political earthquake" after results of Assembly polls in five states, including crucial Uttar Pradesh, are declared on March 10.

Shiv Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said he sympathized with Patil, the state BJP unit chief, as "for the last two years, the BJP has been predicting dates on which the MVA government in Maharashtra will fall". It is the BJP that will now fall, Raut added.

Congress leader Sachin Sawant said a humour-laced and cartoon-filled book can be compiled of all the comments that Patil routinely makes, adding that it would let people know about the BJP leader's contribution in keeping them entertained.

Patil has reportedly said the MVA government will collapse on March 10 after Assembly poll results in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur are announced.

Amid a dip in COVID-19 cases, night curfew in Uttar Pradesh has been relaxed by an hour.

Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Awanish Awasthi, said on Sunday that the "The night curfew will be imposed from 11 pm (to 6.00 am) instead of 10 pm,"

In the past 24 hours, as many 10 fresh COVID-19 deaths were reported in Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll in the state to 23,391. There are a total of 15,276 active COVID-19 cases in the state.

The relaxation in the night curfew comes a day after the Election Commission citing significant improvement in the COVID-19 situation and further relaxed pandemic-induced restrictions on the assembly poll campaign in five states, including Uttar Pradesh.

The hijab controversy that erupted in a pre-university college in Karnataka has now hit a college in Madhya Pradesh.

As per official information, the fresh controversy over wearing hijab-burqa erupted at an Autonomous PG College in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district on Saturday after an M.Com student Rukshana Khan arrived at the college wearing hijab to appear in the exam.

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Nepal | Impeachment motion registered against sitting Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana at Parliament Secretariat following allegations of politicking against him.

"Lawmakers from ruling Nepali Congress, Maoist Center and Janata Samajbadi Party registered the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana," Media Advisor to Speaker of Nepal Parliament

India reports 44,877 new COVID19 cases in the last 24 hours; Active case tally stands at 5,37,045, daily positivity rate at 3.17%