Here is a collection of the most important stories this evening:
UBS makes offer to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1 billion: Report
Switzerland's largest banking entity UBS Group AG has made an offer to buy the crisis-hit Credit Suisse, the country's second-largest private lender, for up to $1 billion, the Financial Times said on March 19. Read more
Australia crush India by 10 wickets in second ODI
Australian pacer Mitchell Starc ripped through the Indian lineup with a five-wicket haul, as the hosts were bundled out for 117. The visitors overhauled the target without breaking sweat in the second one-day international at Visakhapatnam on March 19, levelling the three-match series at 1-1. Read more
Jammu & Kashmir gets first FDI project after abrogation of Article 370
The makers of Burj Khalifa on March 19 marked their formal entry into Jammu and Kashmir, performing the groundbreaking ceremony for the first foreign direct investment in the Union territory — a shopping mall and a multipurpose tower on the outskirts of Srinagar. Read more
India, EU conclude another round of talks on proposed FTA
India and the European Union (EU) have concluded the fourth round of talks for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) in Brussels, a move aimed at further strengthening economic ties between the two sides. Read more
North Korea fires ballistic missile as US-South Korean drills go on
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile towards the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on March 19, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest of a series of tests carried out by the nuclear-armed state since the start of this year. Read more
Lakhs of farmers headed to Delhi for 'kisan mahapanchayat' on March 20: SKM
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said on March 19 that "lakhs of farmers" from across the country were on their way to Delhi to participate in a 'kisan mahapanchayat' to be held at Ramlila Maidan the next day. Read more
Internet suspended in Punjab till March 20; Amritpal Singh elusive
Four arrested members of an outfit headed by Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh were brought to Assam's Dibrugarh on March 19 even as the hunt for the radical preacher and his associates continued. The Punjab government also extended the suspension of mobile internet and SMS services to March 20 noon even as security forces marched through the streets of several towns, including Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana. Read more
