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News18 Evening Digest: Bengaluru Stampede Toll At 11, Census To Begin In 2027 & Other Top Stories
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In today's News18 Evening Digest, we bring you latest updates on Bengaluru stadium stampede, Jasbir Singh's spy case and other top stories.
News18 Evening Digest: In today's News18 Evening Digest, we bring you latest updates on Bengaluru stadium stampede, Jasbir Singh's spy case and other top stories.
11 Killed, Many Injured In Stampede Outside Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium During RCB Celebrations
At least eleven people were killed and several were injured in a stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru where thousands gathered to celebrate the victory of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2025, sources told CNN-News18. Read more
Census To Begin On March 1, 2027; Caste Data To Be Included: Sources
The nationwide Census including caste data will begin on March March 1, 2027, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Wednesday. The exercise to count the population will be done in two phases. 'The reference date for Population Census – 2027 will be 00:00 hours of the first day of March, 2027. For the Union Territory of Ladakh and the non-synchronous snow-bound areas of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir and States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the reference date will be 00.00 hours of the first day of October, 2026," the MHA said. Read more
'My Daughter Didn't Abscond…': Influencer Sharmistha Panoli's Father On Her Arrest
Father of 22-year-old Pune law student and social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli, who was recently arrested by Kolkata Police on charges of hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity, said that his daughter was in Gurugram for a pre-scheduled legal internship and not avoiding police action. Read more
Jasbir Singh, a YouTuber with over 1.1 million subscribers on his channel 'Jaan Mahal", has been arrested by the Punjab Police's State Special Operations Cell (SSOC), Mohali, for his alleged involvement in a Pakistan-backed espionage network. Jasbir Singh's arrest follows intelligence inputs linking him to suspected operatives of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He is the second content creator held in recent weeks in the investigation in which Haryana-based YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra was arrested earlier. Read more
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