The BJP released its manifesto for the Delhi Assembly polls, asserting that the party will change the capital's future. Among several sops, the BJP has promised a ban on sealing and Rs 2 per kg atta for the poor. Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said if BJP forms the next government in Delhi then people will get clean water in their taps. The party also promised to set up development board for the newly-authorised colonies. Keeping up with the freebies promised by the Aam Aadmi party, the BJP promised many financial sops as well, like guaranteed Rs 2 lakh to each poor girl child at the time of her birth, electric scooter for poor girls going to college, Rs 51,000 for poor widows for their daughter's marriage. BJP's manifesto promises a youth talent hunt, at least 10 lakh jobs for the unemployed, the Rani Laxmi Bai scheme for women's safety, new regulations for street vendors and a job guarantee for contractual employees.

The BJP released its manifesto for the Delhi Assembly polls, asserting that the party will change the capital's future. Among several sops, the BJP has promised a ban on sealing and Rs 2 per kg atta for the poor. Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said if BJP forms the next government in Delhi then people will get clean water in their taps. The party also promised to set up development board for the newly-authorised colonies. Keeping up with the freebies promised by the Aam Aadmi party, the BJP promised many financial sops as well, like guaranteed Rs 2 lakh to each poor girl child at the time of her birth, electric scooter for poor girls going to college, Rs 51,000 for poor widows for their daughter's marriage. BJP's manifesto promises a youth talent hunt, at least 10 lakh jobs for the unemployed, the Rani Laxmi Bai scheme for women's safety, new regulations for street vendors and a job guarantee for contractual employees.

In a series of quick developments, Delhi's&nbsp;Aam Aadmi Party suspends Councilor Tahir Hussain from the primary membership of the party on Thursday. This after the&nbsp;Delhi Police booked him for his alleged involvement in the murder of an IB officer Ankit Sharma&nbsp;during the Northeast Delhi violence.&nbsp;Ankit Sharma, who worked for the Intelligence Bureau, had gone missing on Tuesday and his body was found in a drain near his home in northeast Delhi's riot-hit Chand Bagh area on Wednesday. His family members claim that the local councillor and his associates were behind the killing. But the&nbsp;AAP leader&nbsp;denied any involvement in the riots or the killing of the officer saying the accusations are baseless.&nbsp;

The death toll in the northeast Delhi communal riots reached 38 on Thursday evening. According to GTB&nbsp;Hospital&nbsp;over 215 riot victims have been brought to our hospital and treated since February 24. However, at present only 51 patients are admitted. Meanwhile, over 50 patients have been treated at the LNJP Hospital since Sunday. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced a compensation of ₹10 lakh for the families of those killed in the riots and ₹5 lakh&nbsp;for the death of any minor member. The state government has also announced an ex-gratia&nbsp;of ₹2 lakhs for&nbsp;those seriously injured and ₹20,000 for minor injuries.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that investor sentiment has not been dampened by anti-CAA protests and the recent Delhi violence. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, she said the investors she met in her recent visit to Saudi Arabia expressed willingness to invest more in the country.
On the possible impact of coronavirus scare on the industry and the economy, the finance minister said there is none as of now.

Telugu Desam Party&nbsp;president N Chandrababu Naidu was on Thursday taken into preventive custody at the Visakhapatnam airport citing&nbsp;'safety' concerns. Tension prevailed near the airport with TDP workers&nbsp;repulsing YSRC activists who tried to block&nbsp;Naidu's&nbsp;convoy.&nbsp;According to&nbsp;Visakhapatnam City Police,&nbsp;Naidu&nbsp;was taken into preventive custody for "his safety&nbsp;and security". The Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly was&nbsp;sent back into the VIP lounge inside the airport. The TDP chief arrived in Visakhapatnam on Thursday afternoon as part of his state-wide&nbsp;Praja Chaitanya Yatra&nbsp;but the YSRC organised a protest opposing&nbsp;his visit.

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil&nbsp;Deshmukh on Thursday told the Legislative Council that 348&nbsp;cases related to the Koregaon Bhima violence have been&nbsp;withdrawn by the state government so far.&nbsp;He said this in response to a query by Congress&nbsp;legislator Sharad Ranpise. Deshmukh also said that the state government was&nbsp;considering to set up an inquiry commission under the&nbsp;Maharashtra Police Act to probe the Elgar Parishad case. He said he was disappointed over the way the NIA&nbsp;took over the probe. According to Pune police, the Elgar Parishad conclave&nbsp;held in Pune on December 31, 2017, was supported by Maoists&nbsp;and inflammatory speeches made at the event led to caste&nbsp;violence at Koregaon Bhima war memorial in the district the&nbsp;next day.

The BJP on Thursday accused the Congress and the AAP of "politicising" the riots in the national capital and claimed that attempts to instigate violence had been made for two months after Congress president Sonia Gandhi gave the call for 'aar yaa par' in December last year.
Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar&nbsp;also questioned Aam&nbsp;Aadmi&nbsp;Party's silence on allegations that&nbsp;AAP councillor Tahir Hussain&nbsp;is behind the killing of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma.

The Delhi Police on Thursday transferred all Northeast Delhi violence cases to the Crime Branch after clashes over the citizenship law left over 38 dead and over 200 injured.&nbsp;Two Special Investigation Teams have been formed to probe the matter and they will be&nbsp;lead by two Deputy Commissioners. Over 130 people have been arrested so far and 48 FIRs filed in connection with the violence. The decision comes on a day when the Delhi High Court questioned the police over alleged inaction of not filing FIRs&nbsp;for hate speech which instigated crowds.

A case has been filed against election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor for alleged plagiarism in his 'Baat Bihar Ki' campaign launched in Patna last week. Kishor&nbsp;is accused of allegedly using content developed by Shashwat Gautam, a data analytics coordinator with the Congress.&nbsp;Gautam has also named as accused his former aide Osama, who was privy to the content and whom he suspects of making the same available to Kishor after parting ways.&nbsp;Gautam&nbsp;before joining the Congress&nbsp;served as an adviser to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar&nbsp;where he worked with Kishor&nbsp;also.&nbsp;Kishor had launched his campaign on February 18, a month after being sacked from the JD(U).

The Central Board of Secondary Education has postponed class 10 and 12 exams scheduled on February 28 and 29 in violence-hit North East Delhi and parts of East Delhi.&nbsp;Meanwhile, exams at all&nbsp;the remaining centres across Delhi will be conducted as per the original schedule from March 2 onwards.&nbsp;While the next date for the affected students will be notified shortly, the board has also announced that it will conduct fresh exams for students who have not been able to appear for the papers in other parts of Delhi due to the violence. It has also sought details of the students who failed to appear for exams due to the prevailing situation in the city.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind&nbsp;Kejriwal&nbsp;on Thursday said that the&nbsp;party's stand on violence remains clear that strictest punishment must be given to anyone associated with spreading it. The comment comes after the family of an Intelligence Bureau staffer, who was found dead in a drain near his home in northeast Delhi's riot-hit Chand Bagh area, accused AAP councillor Tahir Hussain of being behind the killing. Kejriwal said if any leader is found guilty of inciting or indulging in violence, the strictest action must be taken against them irrespective of which party they belong to.
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To protest against the extradition of Wikileaks' Julian Assange,&nbsp;Pink Floyd's&nbsp;co-founder and guitarist Roger Waters has&nbsp;recited an anti-CAA&nbsp;poem by&nbsp;Aamir Aziz, a student of&nbsp;Jamia Milia Islamia. Waters who was protesting in London began addressing the gathering about Assange's&nbsp;extradition&nbsp;and then concluded it with&nbsp;Aziz's&nbsp;poem&nbsp;'Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega'.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing in&nbsp;Harsh Mander's&nbsp;plea filed in the wake of riots in Delhi to April 13. The Bench of Chief Justice&nbsp;DN Patel&nbsp;and Justice&nbsp;C Hari Shankar&nbsp;also made the Centre a party in the case and gave them and the Delhi Police four weeks to file a counter-affidavit. The order follows submissions made by Solicitor General&nbsp;Tushar Mehta&nbsp;that at present it is not conducive to file FIRs&nbsp;for hate speech. He said,&nbsp;FIRs will be registered at an appropriate time.&nbsp;He went on to assert,&nbsp;"At this juncture when all stakeholders are working to ensure normalcy, any hurried intervention may not be conducive".&nbsp;Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police told the High Court that 48 FIRs have been registered over the violence so far. The matter will now be heard on April 13.

After being away from the limelight for a long time, Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday announced his return to active politics. The 56-year-old issued a press release saying, he had met Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on February 25, to discuss 'his future roadmap' for Punjab. The press note also added that Sidhu met Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for 40 minutes at her residence as well. Sidhu said he got a patient hearing and apprised the party high command of the prevailing situation in Punjab along with a roadmap for the state's revival. The Amritsar East MLA had been incommunicado ever since he resigned from the Punjab Cabinet, skipping even the Assembly sessions.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres&nbsp;has said he is 'very saddened' by the rising death toll and injuries during the violent protests in Delhi against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Calling for maximum restraint by law enforcement officials, the UN chief's office said people should be allowed to demonstrate peacefully, adding that the UN is following developments in the situation closely.

A Congress delegation comprising senior leader&nbsp;Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Minister Manmohan Singh met President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, to discuss a memo on the communal violence that is plaguing areas of Northeast Delhi. Speaking to the media, Sonia&nbsp;Gandhi said they were happy with President&nbsp;Kovind's response. She added that he had assured that he will do what was required. Former Prime Minister Manmohan&nbsp;Singh said the party had urged Kovind to call upon the Centre and ensure that they fulfill their 'Raj Dharma'.&nbsp;

The number of deaths in northeast Delhi violence has crossed 34, with 4 deaths reported from Delhi's LNJP&nbsp;hospital and 30 in GTB&nbsp;hospital. Arson and violence was reported from&nbsp;Bhajanpura, Maujpur and Karawal Nagar areas on Wednesday, even after&nbsp;National Security Advisor Ajit Doval visited violence-affected areas of the national capital and guaranteed the people that the&nbsp;government would restore peace. Over 200 people have been injured after four straight days of clashes over the citizenship law.&nbsp;Delhi Police has filed 18 FIRs and arrested 106 people in connection with the violence that started on Sunday.&nbsp;

Amid violent clashes in various parts northeast Delhi, a&nbsp;video clip doing the rounds of social media, purportedly shows&nbsp;Delhi Police personnel allegedly breaking a CCTV camera near the Khureji&nbsp;Khas protest site in northeast Delhi. The protest at Khureji was cleared out by the police on Wednesday. The video shared by several on Twitter, including members of the Aam Aadmi Party, shows policemen hitting at a white object attached to a pillar outside the Hindustan Petroleum Gas Station at Khureji.

Union law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit back at the Congress, for their comments on Delhi High Court judge Jutice Muralidhar's transfer.
In a series of tweets, Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote, Justice Muralidhar's transfer was done in accordance with the recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium dated 12th of February and a judge's consent is taken before his transfer.
He said that the govt respects independence of judiciary, and by politicising a routine transfer, the Congress has yet again displayed its scant regard for the judiciary.
Responding to Rahul Gandhi's comments on Justice Loya, the minister said the Loya judgement has been well settled by the Supreme Court. He asked if the Congress leader considers himself above the Supreme Court?
Responding to the Congress' criticism that the government was trying to shield BJP leaders who made alleged hate speeches, Prasad said the opposition party had "no right to lecture about objectionable speeches".
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India has said that the comments made by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on the violence in northeast Delhi are factually inaccurate and misleading. The Ministry of External Affairs in a statement, said, comments by the US panel appear to be aimed at politicising the issue. Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar added, that law enforcement agencies are working on the ground to prevent violence and ensure restoration of confidence and normalcy. The Prime Minister has also publicly appealed for peace and brotherhood. He urged that irresponsible comments not be made at such a sensitive time. Amid reports of attack on Muslims, the USCIRF on Wednesday said, the Indian government should provide protection to people regardless of their faith.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra criticised the late-night transfer of Delhi High Court judge, Justice Muralidhar, who had criticised Delhi Police's inaction to tackle the current riots. Priyanka called the transfer 'sad and shameful' but said it was not a surprise given 'the current dispensation'. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in a scathing criticism of the late-night transfer, remembered the late Judge BH Loya, who died while presiding over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, an alleged fake encounter to which Union Home Minister Amit Shah was also linked.

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