The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved&nbsp;the raising of upper limit for permitting abortions from 20 weeks to 24 weeks. The present abortion law, which is about five decades old, permits abortion up to a maximum foetal gestation period of 20 weeks. The amended Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 is expected to be tabled in the next session of Parliament.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the raising of upper limit for permitting abortions from 20 weeks to 24 weeks. The present abortion law, which is about five decades old, permits abortion up to a maximum foetal gestation period of 20 weeks. The amended Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 is expected to be tabled in the next session of Parliament.

After mediators appointed by the Supreme Court to hold a dialogue with&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh protesters visited a road blocked by the police, UP cops on Friday opened an alternate route between Noida and Faridabad to ease traffic congestion. However, the relief was short-lived as cops once again put barricades back on the road. The route connects Noida and Faridabad via Delhi's Kalindi Kunj and hence skirts&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh, where protesters have been camping for over two months against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. Restrictions have been imposed on the Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh stretch and Okhla underpass, which were closed on December 15 last year due to ongoing protests over&nbsp;the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizen.&nbsp;

As a court sent sedition-accused Amulya Leona to 14 days in custody, the girl&rsquo;s father has said that he will not fight for her release and even if she rots in jail. In a video in which the girl&rsquo;s father is seen with men purportedly from a right-wing group, he says that he had warned her about her&nbsp;behaviour. This as reports also said that the girl&rsquo;s house was&nbsp;vandalised&nbsp;hours after a video showing her shout pro-Pakistan slogans while AIMIM chief&nbsp;Assaduddin&nbsp;Owaisi was on dais at an anti-CAA event went viral. Meanwhile, Karnataka chief minister Yeddyurappa has claimed that&nbsp;Leona had links with the&nbsp;naxals. The viral video also showed girl shouting pro-India slogans after&nbsp;organisers&nbsp;of the Bengaluru event snatched her mic.&nbsp;&nbsp;

US President Donald Trump has made another claim, saying he has been told by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that 10 million people are expected to turn up along a 22-km-long road in Ahmedabad. Trump&rsquo;s claim at a packed re-election campaign rally in Colorado comes despite the&nbsp;Ahmedabad municipal body estimating much lower figures of the crowd.&nbsp; PM Modi and President Trump will travel on a 22-km-long road on February 24. Earlier this week,&nbsp;Donald Trump had put the number at seven million. To put the number in perspective, the population of Ahmedabad, which is the biggest city in Gujarat, is between 7 to 8&nbsp;million.&nbsp;

In some respite&nbsp;for the people of Delhi-NCR, the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday reopened a key route that links Noida with Delhi&rsquo;s Kalindi Kunj&nbsp;to ease congestion due to the ongoing anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh. The UP Police reopened the road leading from Kalindi Kunj towards Faridabad- the&nbsp;stretch from Noida's Mahamaya flyover to Delhi.&nbsp;The Shaheen Bagh-Kalindi Kunj road in southeast Delhi has been blocked since December 15 last year, due to ongoing protests against CAA&nbsp;and NRC.&nbsp;The road connecting Noida with Delhi, however, still remains closed.

The Centre plans to send 40 ministers to Jammu &amp;&thinsp;Kashmir in April for another outreach following the watering down of the Article 370 that stripped the erstwhile state of its special status in August, The Hindustan Times reported. The second such outreach since January after Parliament&rsquo;s Budget session ends in April is being planned as the Centre and the Jammu &amp; Kashmir administration are&nbsp;finalising&nbsp;a new domicile policy for the region to protect employment for locals and restrict the sale of land to outsiders, the report said quoting sources. There have been concerns over land rights and jobs in Jammu &amp; Kashmir following the end to the special status that ensured non-residents could not buy land or get government jobs in the erstwhile state.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Leaving the&nbsp;organisers&nbsp;of an event to protest over the CAA red-faced, a young woman raised pro Pakistan&nbsp;slogan in the presence of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who denounced her and stopped her from doing so.&nbsp;The woman, identified as Amulya Leona, asked people to shout pro Pakistan slogans thrice after the&nbsp;organisers&nbsp;invited her to address the gathering soon after Owaisi came on the stage. A baffled Owaisi rushed to snatch the mike from her and was joined by others who tried to remove her from the stage. But the woman was adamant and raised the slogan again&nbsp;repeatedly. She has been booked for sedition.&nbsp;&nbsp;

A political war of words has broken out over the attack on Dalit men in Rajasthan with the BJP targeting Rahul Gandhi for his comments on the horrifying video. After the video of two Dalit men being thrashed went viral, Rahul Gandhi tweeted, urging the state government to take immediate action to bring the perpetrators of the shocking crime to justice. Reminding Rahul Gandhi who is at the helm of affairs in Rajasthan, BJP spokesperson Amit Malviya said crimes against Dalits and women has shot up in Rajasthan.

Refuting the charge that she appeases Muslims, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said her principle is to &lsquo;appease humanity. In her address at a function celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of Bharat Sevashram Sangha founder Swami&nbsp;anavananda, Banerjee said she would like to say today that she appeases humanity. Without naming the BJP, Banerjee made a veiled attack at the saffron outfit, saying it pains her me when she sees there are those trying to spread a strange idea of a new Hindu religion.

Amid nationwide protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act, union minister&nbsp;Giriraj Singh has said that all Muslims in India should have been sent to Pakistan in 1947. Speaking at an event in Bihar&rsquo;s Purnia, the BJP leader said&nbsp;if at the time of Partition Muslim had been sent to Pakistan and Hindus brought to India, current situation would have been different. His comments come after reports said that he was summoned by his party chief JP Nadda over his comments targeting Deoband Islamic Seminary in Uttar Pradesh. Singh had purportedly called Deoband fountainhead of terrorism.&nbsp;

Addressing an RSS event in Ranchi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said he was once advised by a karyakarta against use of the word 'nationalism' in English, as it can lend itself to different interpretations. Bhagwat said the word 'nationalism' could be equated with 'Nazism&nbsp;and fascism' by some people. Bhagwat said it's okay to say nation, national or nationality but not nationalism.

AIMIM leader Waris Pathan has triggered a controversy by hitting out at the BJP for targeting Muslims who are protesting against the amended citizenship law. The former Byculla MLA while addressing a rally in Karnataka's Gulbarga on February 15 said, members of the Muslim community may be just 15 crore, but they can give a fitting reply to the majority community if needed. In a video of the address, doing the rounds of social media, Waris Pathan says for now it's just the Muslim women who have rattled the entire nation, but when the entire community comes together, it will be tough on the majority. He also said that Muslims are very much capable of snatching 'azaadi' if its not given.

In a fresh twist to the ongoing video war over the December 15 violence at Jamia&nbsp;Milia Islamia, a new CCTV video is once again raising questions over the role of protesters gathered at the university. CCTV footage recorded at 6:21 pm on December 15 outside the Jamia campus shows a number of masked people pelting stones apparently on police officials. In another CCTV footage recorded at 5:03 pm, miscreants can be seen hurling back tear gas shells at the police force during the violent clashes. Reacting to the new videos, the Delhi Police Crime Branch SIT has said it has questioned 10 university students in connection with the case. The Jamia Coordination Committee, too, reacted to the footage of stone-pelting saying the video should be examined and there should be a record of the number of cops who got injured by stones.

Supreme Court-appointed mediators, advocates Sanjay Hegde and Sadhna Ramachandran, met protesters at Shaheen Bagh for the second day on Thursday. Assuring protesters that they are safe in India, advocate Sadhna Ramachandran told them that they have a right to protest and the Supreme Court is hearing their concerns on the Citizenship Amendment Law. Sanjay Hegde added that, while their right to protest was legitimate, they must stay together and not to cause inconvenience to others.

After appointing the chairman of the Ram Mandir Trust, reports say members of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust met PM Modi&nbsp;at his&nbsp;Lok Kalyan Marg residence, to invite him to lay the foundation stone of the temple. The first meeting of the temple trust was held on Wednesday to elect its Chairman and general secretary. Prime Minister Narendra Modi&rsquo;s former Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra has been selected to head the Ram temple construction committee. Reports say, as the PM&rsquo;s most trusted lieutenant, the move is being perceived as the PM's attempt to personally ensure that the construction of the Ram temple goes smoothly.

A horrifying video of a Dalit man being brutalised by a bunch of Rajput men in Rajasthan has sent shock waves across the country. In the video, reportedly from Nagaur in Rajasthan, a Dalit man is seen screaming and begging as some Rajput men beat him and one of them insert a screwdriver into his rectum. The barbaric torture was meted out reportedly on the charge of a theft. Police have registered a case after the video went viral on social media. Congress leader Rahul&nbsp;Gandhi has urged the state govt to take strict action in the case.

A Delhi court has sought a response from Tihar jail authorities on a plea by Vinay, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking better treatment for his so-called mental illness, schizophrenia and physical injuries. According to prison officials, Vinay Sharma injured himself by banging his head on his cell wall in Tihar Jail. Jail officials said, that he had some minor injuries and was already treated inside the prison premises. Vinay Sharma's lawyer meanwhile, told the Court, that he was refusing to recognise people, including his mother. He added that Vinay sustained a grievous head injury, fracture in his right arm and was suffering from 'insanity', 'mental illness' and 'schizophrenia'. The court on February 17 issued fresh death warrants against the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case for the 3rd of March at 6 am.

The Ministry of External Affairs has said that the H1B visa issue is important for India and it could come up during the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump. Apart from that, around five MoUs, including trade facilitation and homeland security are also under discussion. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar indicated that cross border terrorism shall figure in Modi-Trump talks, adding that a strong India-US counter-terror cooperation was evident after Pulwama attack.

One more Indian onboard a quarantined cruise ship off the coast of Japan has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and shifted to hospital. This takes the number of Indian nationals infected with the virus on the vessel to eight, the Indian embassy has confirmed. The Diamond Princess cruise ship arrived in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on February 3 with 3,711 passengers and crew members on board, of which 621 people were found to be infected.&nbsp;Finance Minister Nirmala&nbsp;Sitharaman&nbsp;also held a&nbsp;meeting to assess the impact of the novel Coronavirus outbreak on Indian trade and the preparedness to tackle it.

Soon, your Aadhaar may be linked with your voter ID. The Centre has informed the Election Commission that it is working on legal changes to amend the Aadhaar Act to link the unique identification number with the electoral roll. The govt says, the linking will remove bogus entries, clean up electoral rolls and give remote voting rights to many. This will mean, a person staying in Gurgaon will be able to vote during Bihar assembly election from his location remotely. Reports say the law ministry has told the Election Commission that it is likely to move a cabinet note soon to give poll panel the power to link Aadhaar with voter ID.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor pitched a new idea before the Congress Working Committee, saying the party must hold leadership elections to 'energise cadre and inspire voters'. Tharoor's appeal came in support of his party colleague and former MP Sandeep Dikshit's remarks, that the the biggest challenge before the Congress is the 'leadership question'. Sandeep Dikshit has accused the Congress top brass of failing to find a new president after all these months because they are 'scared who will bell the cat'. Tharoor tweeted, saying, what Sandeep Dikshit said openly is what dozens of party leaders from across the country are asking privately, including many with responsible positions in the party. The Thiruvananthapuram MP had earlier suggested opening up all key posts in the Congress, including the Presidency and the CWC membership to party workers by means of elections, in order to help legitimise new leaders.

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