The Cafe&nbsp;Coffee Day stock fell another 20% in trade today, on the news it's founder VG Siddhartha&rsquo;s body had been recovered from the&nbsp;Netravathi river after 36 hours of search operation. Siddhartha has been missing since Monday evening.&nbsp;The Cafe Coffee Day board of directors will meet later today in Chikkamagaluru to pay respect to the brand's founder and discuss the&nbsp;future path for the company.&nbsp; Siddhartha's&nbsp;wife, Malavika Hegde,&nbsp;is on the CCD board. However, it is not clear whether she, or a family representative will attend the meeting or not.&nbsp;

The Cafe Coffee Day stock fell another 20% in trade today, on the news it's founder VG Siddhartha’s body had been recovered from the Netravathi river after 36 hours of search operation. Siddhartha has been missing since Monday evening. The Cafe Coffee Day board of directors will meet later today in Chikkamagaluru to pay respect to the brand's founder and discuss the future path for the company. Siddhartha's wife, Malavika Hegde, is on the CCD board. However, it is not clear whether she, or a family representative will attend the meeting or not.

While addressing the state Assembly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday, claimed that none of the anti-CAA protesters had been killed in police firing in his state, adding that casualties were due to firing by protesters. The Bijnor Superintendent of Police reportedly had accepted that one protester had died in police firing during protests in the state, while unofficial estimates peg this number at 20. Yogi Adityanath told the assembly, that if someone tries to disturb the peace by hiding behind the tricolour, they won&rsquo;t be spared. He targeted Opposition parties saying they were supporting rioters instead of talking about farmers, women's safety and other issues. The Up CM added that if someone wants to play with the law or attack people or resort to arson, then they will be made to understand in the language they understand.

India will switch to the world's cleanest petrol and diesel from April 1, when it moves to Bharat Stage VI-compliant fuel from the current BS-IV grade now. With that, India will join the select club of nations using petrol and diesel containing just 10 parts per million of sulphur and emission standards as good as CNG. Sanjiv Singh, chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., said almost all refineries began producing ultra-low sulphur BS-VI petrol and diesel by the end of 2019 and are working tirelessly to replace every drop of fuel in the country to the new one.

Three days after he took oath as the chief minister of Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday. Calling it a good meeting held in a cordial atmosphere, Kejriwal said they held discussions on various issues and agreed that the centre and the Delhi government needs to work together for the development of Delhi. When asked by reporters after the meeting if he and Shah had spoken about the issue of Shaheen Bagh, Kejriwal said, there was no discussion on that.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made a surprise visit to 'Hunar Haat' at Rajpath, where he interacted with artisans. 'Hunar Haat' is an initiative organised by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, to empower master artisans, craftsmen and culinary experts from all over the country. PM spent about an hour at the event, where he ate some delicious 'litti-chokha', and some 'kulhad' chai. Not just that, he even tried his hand at some music.

The Supreme Court-appointed interlocutors visited Shaheen Bagh on Wednesday to initiate talks with the protesters after the court suggested that the agitation should be held in an alternative site where no public place is blocked.&nbsp;The protesters have been on a sit-in against the new citizenship law for over two months now. Senior lawyers&nbsp;Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran&nbsp;told protesters that&nbsp;they had come to Shaheen Bagh to listen to people who had assembled in large numbers. But in the interaction, the protesters were adamant that they would not shift their protest site. According to Hindustan Times, the protesters contested allegations saying when parallel roads are open "why do the applicants want to use only this road?". Another protester said, "We are asked to move, we will move but the&nbsp;protests will continue."

According to a Vice report, AI-manipulated deepfake videos of BJP MP Manoj Tiwari were used in the party's campaign ahead of the 8th February Delhi Legislative Assembly elections. Two videos of Tiwari reportedly went viral on WhatsApp, one in English, and one in the Hindi dialect of Haryanvi, with the MP speaking critically of Arvind Kejriwal, the incumbent Chief Minister of Delhi, in both. The report states the videos were created with the help of political communications firm Ideaz Factory, that created the campaigns to reach various linguistic voter bases. According to the co-in charge of BJP's IT Cell, the manipulated videos were circulated among nearly 15 million people and shared across 5,800 WhatsApp groups in the Delhi NCR region.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its keenness to interact with a Union Minister to deal with the issue of gradual conversion of all public transport and government vehicles into electric vehicles to curb air pollution. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde enquired from Additional Solicitor General ANS Nadkarni as to whether Nitin Gadkari&nbsp;can come over for an interaction to assist the court. According to NDTV, the chief&nbsp;justice said, "The minister has innovative ideas. We are requesting him to come to court and assist us because he is in a position to take decisions".&nbsp;Nadkarni,&nbsp;however, raised an objection, saying the appearance of the minister can be misused for political purposes. To which the chief justice clarified, "Don't think we are summoning him. It is a request. We want someone in authority to decide. Please find out if he can come".&nbsp;The matter has now been adjourned&nbsp;for four weeks.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday took strong note of rampant illegal sand mining in Rajasthan and directed the state government, its collectors and SPs to take immediate steps to stop it.&nbsp;Seeking an action taken report from the state government within four weeks, the bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde said illegal sand mining is likely to "damage the environment irreparably". The bench, which also comprised justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant, also directed the apex court-appointed Central Empowered Committee to look into the issue of illegal sand mining and submit a report suggesting measures to deal with it within 6 weeks. The bench said the CEC would also consider the problem faced by sand traders, transporters and other stakeholders and it will have the authority to summon any person including government officials with the purpose of holding the probe.

West Bengal Chief Minister&nbsp;Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that "pressure" created&nbsp;by central agencies and "vendetta politics" led to the death&nbsp;of Trinamool Congress leader and actor Tapas Paul.&nbsp;Paul, a two-term former MP, died at the age of 61 in&nbsp;Mumbai on Tuesday after a heart attack.&nbsp;He was an accused in the Rose Valley chit fund scam case and was in jail for over a year.&nbsp;Banerjee, while paying homage to Paul, also alleged that another TMC leader Sultan Ahmed had also died of cardiac&nbsp;arrest as he was under stress after being named an accused in&nbsp;the Narada tapes scandal of 2017.

A Delhi court on Wednesday directed the Delhi government to file a status report by April 3 on the issue of sanctions to prosecute former JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case. The court also directed the Delhi Police to send a reminder to the city government seeking requisite sanctions to prosecute Kumar.&nbsp;The court passed the directions after police submitted that permission to prosecute Kumar and others has not been granted yet and the letter requesting sanction is pending with the Delhi government. On January 14, the police had filed a charge sheet in the court against Kumar and others, including former JNU&nbsp;students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, saying they were leading a procession and supported the seditious slogans raised on the campus during an event on February 9, 2016.

Thousands of protesters, including members of several Muslim outfits in Chennai, took out a long march to the Secretariat to demand that the Assembly pass a resolution against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register. The Madras High Court on Tuesday restrained the Muslim outfits from laying siege to the Secretariat, but the protesters said they will defy the court&rsquo;s order and go ahead with their plan to lay siege to the Assembly. Various Muslims organization are staging protests across Tamil Nadu

to protest the dropping of beef from the menu for state police trainees in Kerala, the Congress workers distributed beef curry and bread in front a police station in Kozhikode on Tuesday. The Congress has accused CM Pinarayi Vijayan of bowing to Sangh pressure. The Kerala police department has, however, said that reports of beef being omitted from the menu prescribed for the newly trained police batch are baseless.

The government has moved to amend the Aadhaar Act to legally empower the Election Commission to link the unique identification number with the electoral roll, The Times of India has reported. The move would remove bogus and duplicate entries and pave the way for giving &ldquo;remote&rdquo; voting rights to migrant voters. The report added that the law ministry is working on a note to be put up before the Union Cabinet. The move will help migrants by changing the current practice where they can vote only if they are in the constituency where they are registered as voters.

Three terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Diver village of Tral in Pulwama district of south Kashmir in the wee hours of Wednesday. Police said that the terrorists were killed during a gunfight when they were encircled by the forces during a cordon and search operations in the area. The identity of the killed terrorists is yet to be ascertained.

More than a 100 people in a Hyderabad neighbourhood have been asked by the Unique Identification Authority of India to verify their Aadhaar enrolment documents. The authority has threatened to cancel their 12-digit identity number if hey failed to do so, The Hindustan Times has reported. The Aadhaar authority has said that its Hyderabad office received reports from the state police that 127 people obtained Aadhaar &ldquo;on false pretences&rdquo; and were illegal immigrants. The authority has also clarified that the notice has got nothing to do with citizenship as Aadhaar&nbsp;is not a citizenship document.

Indicating that a major bilateral trade deal during his visit to Delhi next week might not be on the cards, US President Donald Trump has said he is "saving the big deal" with India for later. Trump added that he "does not know" if it will be done before the presidential election in November. In an apparent dissatisfaction over US-India trade ties, Trump said, "we're not treated very well by India." But he praised PM Modi and said he is looking forward to meet him. Trump is scheduled to visit India on February 24 and 25.

Is there a rebellion brewing in the Karnataka BJP against CM Yeddiyurappa? A mystery letter has surfaced accusing the chief minister of favouring his family members and not allowing anybody else to grow. The unsigned letter has reportedly surfaced after a meeting of some BJP MLAs. BJP leaders in the state, have however, denied any sort of rift in the party. Yeddiyurappa has been under pressure from party MLAs since cabinet formation over berths to 10 MLAs who quit Congress and JDS to support the BJP.

After girls at an institute in Bhuj were forced to strip to check if they were menstruating before having their meals, there is another shocker from a seer in Gujarat. Swami&nbsp;Krushnaswarup&nbsp;Dasji, the&nbsp;seer who is associated with the Swaminarayan Bhuj Mandir sect, whose followers run the Bhuj institute has said that menstruating women who cook food for their husbands will be reborn as dogs while men consuming food prepared by women having periods will reborn as bullocks. He invoked &lsquo;Shastras&rsquo; to justify his claims. He also called women &lsquo;careless&rsquo; about their menstruation periods and warned men to learn cooking.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;bypolls&nbsp;to panchayats scheduled from March 5 in Jammu and Kashmir has been postponed due to security reasons, J&amp;K Chief Electoral Officer Shailendra Kumar said on Tuesday. By-election to over 12,500 panchayat seats in Jammu and Kashmir was scheduled to be held in eight phases from March 5. Stating that&nbsp;bypoll&nbsp;was&nbsp;postponed for three weeks, Kumar said this step was taken after inputs given to him by the home department over security issues. The eight-phase poll was earlier scheduled to be held from March 5 to March 20 on a party basis.&nbsp;&nbsp;

While welcoming the SC decision to include women in Indian army's combat roles, Western command chief Lt Gen RP&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;has said that the time was not right for women in combat roles. He said, "We welcome the SC ruling to give women officers permanent commission."
At present, women officers are inducted in short services for 14 years and are allowed only in legal educational wings as permanent officers.
&ldquo;It is an evolutionary process. Women officers are already into other wings related to combat if not direct. We hope in the future they will get into more roles and contribute to the Indian Army,&rdquo; he said.

Cafe Coffee Day hits 52 week low as VG Siddhartha's body found

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