Twitter is buzzing with breaking news and news alerts from India and rest of the world. Here is the coverage of all breaking alerts and latest updates from the micro-blogging site on one page:
Breaking News of April 8:
11:01 pm: BJP announces the first list of 72 candidates for Karnataka elections 2018 (ANI)
10:43 pm: Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel wins Formula One's Bahrain Grand Prix (AP)
10:32 pm: Major accident averted as a Jet Airways aircraft wing hit a truck at Delhi airport (ANI)
10:18 pm: Sarpanch of Bade Setti village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma killed by naxals (ANI)
09:56 pm: Kalaimani an athlete by profession is now running a tea shop in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, says 'there is no help from the govt for sports persons. I earn Rs 400-500 from the tea shop, run my family & manage my sports requirements' (ANI)
09:30 pm: Equatorial Guinea's highest civilian award given to President Kovind by their President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (ANI)
08:52 pm: Over 100,000 Pashtuns held a rally in Peshawar against Pakistan govt earlier today. The protesters demanded international community to intervene in the war crimes in FATA (ANI)
08:36 pm: Agreements signed between India, Equatorial Guinea in the presence of President Kovind and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (ANI)
08:30 pm: Iran denounces Syria chemical attack allegations as 'conspiracy' (AFP)
08:09 pm: Journalist, Anuj Chaudhary, shifted to hospital after he was shot at by unidentified men at his house in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad (ANI)
08:03 pm: 3 out of the 4 human traffickers caught by SSB 42nd battalion at Rupaidiha near India-Nepal border handed over to Nepal police. 4th was handed over to Indian police as he has dual nationality. The SSB caught 18 Nepalese children with the 4 human traffickers (ANI)
07:45 pm: IPL 2018: Kolkata Knight Riders wins toss, opts to field against Royal Challengers Bangalore
07:43 pm: Nitish Katara murder case: Ajay Katara, witness, lodged complaint claiming received phone call where he was asked for Rs 5 crore & threatened he'll be killed if he didn't give the money. Case registered under various sections of IPC in Delhi (ANI)
07:24 pm: Two children killed, 1 critically injured when their uncle burnt down their house in UP's Allahabad while they were sleeping inside. The man is mentally unstable, says SSP Akash Kulhari (ANI)
06:54 pm: Uttarakhand CM instructs all the District Magistrates of the state to ensure that NCERT books are available to the students and parents through book sellers and retailers (ANI)
06:47 pm: Syrian government says rebels agree to surrender last eastern Ghouta town held by them and hand over prisoners (AP)
06:44 pm: FIR registered against a man for posting messages in a WhatsApp group to incite violence in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind, case registered under various sections of IPC (ANI)
06:41 pm: Turkey says 'strong suspicion' Syrian regime behind Douma chemical attack (AFP)
06:39 pm: BJP Central Election Committee Meeting begins at BJP Headquarters in Delhi (ANI)
06:38 pm:
06:28 pm: HM Rajnath Singh arrives at BJP Headquarters in Delhi for BJP Central Election Committee Meeting (ANI)