German Chancellor Angela Merkel starts her 2-day India visit from October 31 to November 2, where she will be accompanied by a 12 member delegation, including three cabinet ministers, nine junior ministers, and secretary-level officers. During her visit Merkel will also meet top executives of major Indian companies which are active in Germany. The two countries are likely to discuss ways to further ramp up ties in areas of defence, security, renewable energy, high technology, skill development, and more. PM Modi and Chancellor Merkel are also expected to deliberate on key regional and global issues including the situation in Afghanistan, West Asia and Korean peninsula.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel starts her 2-day India visit from October 31 to November 2, where she will be accompanied by a 12 member delegation, including three cabinet ministers, nine junior ministers, and secretary-level officers. During her visit Merkel will also meet top executives of major Indian companies which are active in Germany. The two countries are likely to discuss ways to further ramp up ties in areas of defence, security, renewable energy, high technology, skill development, and more. PM Modi and Chancellor Merkel are also expected to deliberate on key regional and global issues including the situation in Afghanistan, West Asia and Korean peninsula.

Left-leaning organisations will form a human chain at Rajghat on January 30 against the CAA, NRC, and NPR. Jan Ekta Jan Adhikar Andolan (JEJAA), a platform of 109 class-mass-social organizations, in a statement on Tuesday, said the human chain will be formed from Rajghat to Shanthi Van, covering Hanuman Mandir, Red Fort, Jama Masjid and Delhi Gate. It said the human chain will be formed at 5.10 pm and at 5.17 pm - the exact time of the death of Mahatma Gandhi, everyone will observe a one-minute silence followed by the singing of the National Anthem.

The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday sent a notice to BJP leader Anurag Thakur over the "goli maaro" slogans raised at an election rally in Rithala. The poll panel has found him to be in violation of the Model Code of Conduct and Thakur has been given time till 12 pm on January 30 to reply. Another notice has been sent to West Delhi BJP MP Parvesh Verma who said that what had happened in Kashmir with Kashmiri Pandits earlier could also happen in Delhi, warning that lakhs of anti-CAA protesters in Shaheen Bagh could enter homes to rape and kill women.

The Ministry of External Affairs Tuesday said the Centre has started preparations to evacuate the Indians stranded in China&rsquo;s Wuhan, which is the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Air India has kept one of its 423-seater jumbo plane ready to fly out immediately, for the evacuation of Indian citizens. The Indian embassy is coordinating closely with Chinese authorities and has requested Beijing for a possible evacuation of over 250 Indians. The health ministry has said, once the Indians are brought back, they will be kept in quarantine for 2 weeks.

Breaking his silence on JD(U) Vice President Prashant Kishor's vocal stance against the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that Kishor is free to go wherever he wants. Speaking to reporters, Nitish&nbsp;said that he does not interfere in Kishor's work and it won't matter if he stays or leaves the party.&nbsp;
"I have no business, it is his will to go wherever he wants. If he is doing anything he might have some interest. He might want to go somewhere. He came in with Amit Shah's reference. As a strategist, he works for a few clients. Right now he is working for AAP. You can ask him if he wants to stay or not. If he chooses to stay than it will be within the basic foundation of the party,"

The hearing of the Centre&rsquo;s curative plea seeking enhanced compensation for the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy victims has been delayed yet again, as Justice Ravindra Bhat recused himself from the matter. Reportedly, he was the counsel for the Union government in the same case in 1989. During the hearing, Justice Arun Mishra stated that Chief Justice SA Bobde would decide the composition of the new 5-judge bench. In its 1989 judgment, the SC had ordered Union Carbide to pay a compensation of $470 million. However, the Centre contended that this was based on a wrong number of injuries and deaths. Centre's curative plea mentions that 5,295 people died and 70,000 suffered injuries in the tragedy. The Centre has sought additional compensation of Rs.7,844 crore, along with stricter punishment for the convicted Union Carbide executives, who had full knowledge of the fatal design flaws of the Bhopal plant.

A man who had reportedly gone to speak to the protesters at Delhi's&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh&nbsp;was caught after he took out a pistol at the protest site. The coordinators of the protest have tweeted that while the 'armed anti-social element' has been caught and neutralised, they fear&nbsp;more right-wing groups could try to enter the area. They urged more and more people to join the protest to prevent any violence. In a video that has gone viral, the locals can be seen trying to overpower the armed man.&nbsp;

The Supreme Court has granted bail to 17 convicts in the 2002 Sardarpura post-Godhra riots case, saying that all the convicts will have to do community service for six hours a week besides reporting to the local police station on a weekly basis as bail conditions. The convicts, who were handed down life sentences in the Sardarpura riots case, had appealed against the Gujarat High Court order convicting them. The Sardarpura massacre was the first of the nine post-Godhra riots cases to be probed by the SIT. A day after the Sabarmati Express burning incident, a mob gathered near Sheikh Vaas, a Muslim-populated area in Sardarpura, and burnt the house of Ibrahim Sheikh, where the victims had taken shelter, 33 people were burnt alive in the massacre.

The CRPF has carried out a massive check among its over 3 lakh personnel to audit any possible 'subversive' elements in its ranks. The move comes in the wake of a J&amp;K Police DSP Davinder Singh being caught with terrorists recently. CRPF Director-General said the apprehension of Davinder Singh is 'a grave incident and an area of extreme concern' for the security forces. He added 'no security grid should be allowed to be weakened by such episodes' However, he added, that an isolated incident should not be taken as the branding of any particular force, and the J&amp;K Police has tremendous contributions to normalising the situation in the valley. The Central Reserve Police Force has deployed close to 70,000 personnel in Kashmir valley for counter-terrorism and law and order duties.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Prime Minister on Wednesday over dwindling economy. Addressing Congress' Yuva Aakrosh Rally in Jaipur, Rahul Gandhi said that the govt talks only about CAA, NPR and NRC, but PM remains silent on economy and jobs, which directly affect the youth of the country.&nbsp; Rahul&nbsp;said, "PM Modi had promised 2 crore jobs, but last year our youth lost 1 crore jobs. Wherever PM goes he talks of CAA, NRC but the biggest issue of unemployment is not mentioned, PM doesn't even speak a word on it."&nbsp;

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday targeted the previous Congress-led governments while defending the recent amendment to the Citizenship Act. Speaking at an NCC event in New Delhi, PM Modi said the Citizenship Amendment Act was brought by the government to correct "historical injustice" done to people who fled their home countries to escape religious persecution. &ldquo;Nehru-Liyaquat pact spoke about protecting minorities. We had promised them that India would help them in troubled times. Mahatma Gandhi also wished the same. The government has introduced CAA to fulfill a promise India made. The country has seen the real face of those giving communal colour to decisions of our government which is solving decades-old issues. The nation is watching. It&rsquo;s quiet, but it&rsquo;s understanding everything.&rdquo;

A picture of bearded Omar Abdullah wearing a haunting smile went viral on the internet. It moved most who saw it, but not the BJP. In a distasteful reaction to the picture, BJP's Tamil Nadu's unit has made a joke of former J&amp;K CM, who is under detention since August, by sending him a set of razors as gift. Adding insult to injury, the party's twitter handle tweeted the grab of the order it has placed for Omar on Amazon.in.&nbsp;After facing flak online, BJP&nbsp;deleted the tweet.&nbsp;

Former JNU student Sharjeel Imam, who landed in a controversy over his speech, has been arrested from Bihar's Jehanabad. Sedition cases were lodged against Sharjeel in five states and he was arrested&nbsp;in a joint operation by the Bihar police and the Delhi police crime branch.
He is being questioned at an undisclosed location, after being produced before a local magistrate he will be flown to New Delhi for further questioning. In the controversial speech at an anti-CAA protest, Sharjeel Imam had suggested Assam be cut off from mainland India.
Reacting to Sharjeel's arrest, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said, the law of the land must prevail. "Nobody should do anything that is not in the interest of the nation. The accusations and the arrest, the court will decide on the matter," he said.

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla has written to the President of the European Union parliament over the resolutions on the Citizenship Amendment Act. 600 of 750 EU Parliament members have moved 6 resolutions expressing concern that the CAA would create the "largest statelessness crisis in the world". Pointing out that such a resolution would set an "unhealthy precedent", the Speaker wrote: "It is inappropriate for a legislature to pass judgement on another, a practice that can be surely misused for vested interests". Birla has stressed that the citizenship law has been passed with due deliberation in both houses of Parliament.

US President Donald Trump is likely to visit India between February 21 and February 24, the Hindustan Times has reported quoting official source. The report said that a joint public function with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also likely in Ahmedabad during the visit. The US government has reportedly already booked Delhi&rsquo;s ITC Maurya Hotel for the forthcoming presidential visit from Feb 21-24. Report said that the highlight of Trump&rsquo;s India visit is expected to be a trade deal. The visit gains further significance as Pakistan is intensifying its efforts to attack India at the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva from February 24 to March 30 on Kashmir and CAA-NRC.

The three people who were isolated in Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia hospital with flu-like symptoms after they returned from China have tested negative for the deadly&nbsp;Coronavirus strain.
The outbreak has infected over 4,000 people across the world in less than a month. No confirmed cases have been detected in India so far, but several suspected cases have been quarantined&nbsp;in Kolkata, Jaipur, Chandigarh, and Patna.
The samples, 4 from Delhi, 2 from Mumbai, 1 each from Bengaluru&nbsp;and Hyderabad were sent to the National Virology lab in Pune, and all have tested negative.

Launching a spirited defence of the new citizenship law, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that those indulging in fear-mongering on CAA refuse to see the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan. He gave example of a Pakistan Army advertisement which stated that non-Muslims can only apply for sanitation workers post to stress his point on discrimination&nbsp;in Pakistan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sent a stern warning to Pakistan saying that Indian army doesn't need more 10 days to defeat the neighbouring country. Speaking at the NCC rally in Delhi, the PM said that earlier govts didn't give a free hand to the forces, but the things have changed now.

The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the plea of death row convict Mukesh Kumar in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case challenging the dismissal of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind.&nbsp;A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna would hear the plea at 12.30 PM on Tuesday. The mercy plea of 32-year-old Singh&nbsp;who is to be hanged on Feb 1 along with 3 others, was dismissed by the President on January 17.

Minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will have to provide proof of their religious beliefs while applying for nationality under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, reports&nbsp;said quoting home ministry officials. Further the applicants will have to prove that they have come from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh before December 31, 2014. Reports also said that the govt is likely to incorporate some Assam-specific provisions into the CAA rules.

Another shocker from BJP's Delhi's campaign. After 'goli maaro' slogans prompt from minister Anurag Thakur, BJP MP Parvesh Singh Verma has made another outrageous remark. The MP has told Delhi voters that if BJP loses, the Shaheen Bagh protesters "will rape and kill their women". He also promised that if BJP wins, the protests will be cleared within an hour.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Delhi for 2-day visit

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