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• Homebuyers' body FPCE urges BJP to include RERA implementation in West Bengal poll manifesto March 8, 2021
  FPCE representatives met the BJP’s Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who is the party’s in-charge of five Lok Sabha constituencies comprising 35 assembly seats for the upcoming election in West Bengal, over the weekend and handed over a letter with their request. The letter was addressed to Kailash Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s in-charge for West Bengal.
• PM Modi to inaugurate key road link with Bangladesh boosting Indo-Pacific connectivity March 8, 2021
  The bridge ‘Maitri Setu’ has been built over Feni river which flows between Tripura and Bangladesh. The name ‘Maitri Setu’ symbolizes growing bilateral relations and friendly ties between India and Bangladesh, according to officials.
• Sterling Bank fraud accused appear before judge through videoconferencing for the first time March 8, 2021
  The four — Nitin Sandesara, his brother Chetan Sandesara, Dipti Sandesara and Hitesh Patel — who appeared before a Delhi HC judge on February 10 claimed in their affidavits that they were currently in Lagos, Nigeria.
• NDA will emerge victorious: Amit Shah March 8, 2021
  The bypolls will be held along with the assembly election in Tamil Nadu. The seat fell vacant after Congress MP H Vasanthakumar died of Covid-19 last year.