Amid reports that government may invoke section 7 of the RBI to issue 'unprecedented directions' to the RBI, former finance minister P Chidambaram has hit out at the Modi govt. Chidambaram tweeted that we did not invoke Section 7 in 1991, 97, 2008 or 2013. What is the need to invoke the provision now?, he asked adding that it shows the government is hiding facts about the economy and is desperate

One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case - Pawan Kumar Gupta has moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with the President. His lawyer AP Singh&nbsp;told the court that the Gupta didn't&nbsp;know about the seven-day deadline&nbsp;to avail his legal options and therefore he&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;file either a curative petition or a mercy petition so far.

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday hit out at the Congress for reminding his party BJP of what its&nbsp;rajdharma&nbsp;should be.&nbsp;Addressing the media, he said a delegation of Congress that met President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday is trying to remind others about&nbsp;rajdharma, but the party should clarify why it changes its position on issues.&nbsp;

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind&nbsp;Kejriwal&nbsp;announced a slew of steps the govt is taking for the relief and rehabilitation of the people affected by violence in the northeast areas of the capital. People whose houses have been completely damaged are being shifted to the govt's&nbsp;night shelters and community centres. The state govt has also announced an interim compensation of Rs 25,000 for such people. They will be compensated further after assessment. Kejriwal&nbsp;also informed the press that 18 sub-divisional magistrates have been appointed&nbsp;along with night magistrates. Delh&nbsp;govt is also distributing food on a large-scale in the riot-affected areas.&nbsp;

The months of March, April and May are "likely to be warmer than normal" over northwest, west, central and parts of south India, the India Meteorological Department has said.&nbsp;Above normal heat-wave conditions are also likely in the core heat wave zone during the season. The core heat wave zone covers the states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana and parts of Maharashtra and coastal Andhra Pradesh.

The Delhi High Court has sought the response of the Centre, the Delhi government and the police on multiple pleas seeking FIRs against political figures, including Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, for allegedly making hate speeches. One of the pleas by a lawyers' group has sought lodging of FIRs against the Congress leaders as well as Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi and former AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan for allegedly making hate speeches. The High Court&nbsp;bench has also issued notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the police on three separate pleas which have sought FIRs against three BJP leaders for alleged hate speeches by them. All the matters have been listed by the court for further hearing on April 13.

Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi&nbsp;government has proposed to extend five per cent reservation to&nbsp;Muslims in educational institutes, Minority Affairs Minister&nbsp;Nawab Malik announced on Friday.&nbsp;The state government will ensure that a legislation to&nbsp;this effect is passed soon, the minister informed the State&nbsp;Legislative Council. He also assured the House of taking "appropriate&nbsp;action" in this regard before the beginning of admissions in schools.

Prohibitory orders were relaxed for 10 hours view of improvements in the ground situation on Friday in the riot-hit northeast districts which claimed 42 lives and left over 200 injured.&nbsp; The decision to relax Section 144 of the&nbsp;CrPC&nbsp;was taken a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah was informed about the law and order situation in a review meeting with top police officers. The restrictions have been relaxed from 8 a.m. in the morning.&nbsp;One more death was reported at GTB on Friday, taking the toll to 42. Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Anil&nbsp;Baijal is scheduled to visit the violence-affected areas.&nbsp;

The Centre on Friday appointed senior IPS officer SN Srivastava as the new Commissioner of Delhi Police. The 1985-batch officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory cadre, Srivastava will replace incumbent&nbsp;Amulya&nbsp;Patnaik, whose one month extension to the post will end on Saturday. Srivastava, is presently the Special Commissioner, and he has been given additional charge of Delhi Police Commissioner till March 1, 2020 and until further orders. Earlier, Srivastava headed the Delhi Police Special Cell and was instrumental in the arrest of scores of Indian Mujahideen operatives.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

With forensic science experts in tow, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police on Friday searched the residence of suspended AAP councilor Tahir Hussian who remains on the run. A forensic team collected samples from the spot as police have begun probe to look into the murder of IB official Ankit Sharma, whose body was found in a drain. Hussian has been booked for Sharma&rsquo;s murder after his family lodged a complaint, accusing the suspended AAP&nbsp;councillor&nbsp;of instigating mobs in Chand Bagh.&nbsp;&nbsp;

BJP's&nbsp;former ally Shiv Sena has slammed the Home Minister Amit&nbsp;Shah&nbsp;over the riots in the national capital. In an article titled 'Where is the Home Minister?' in it's mouthpieace&nbsp;'Saamna', the Sena&nbsp;said that Amit Shah who had taken out a lot time during&nbsp;Delhi elections for door-to-door campaigning was nowhere to seen during the riots. When Home Minister was welcoming the US President in Ahmedabad, an IB officer was killed in Delhi, the editorial added. Shiv&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;also criticised Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi for speaking on the violence after three days.&nbsp;

Narendra Mehta, the&nbsp;Bharatiya&nbsp;Janata Party&rsquo;s former MLA from Mira Road was booked on charges of alleged rape levelled by a BJP woman municipal corporator.&nbsp;A close aide of Devendra&nbsp;Fadnavis, Mehta has been booked for offences of sexual assault by the&nbsp;Navghar&nbsp;Police after the complaint by his party female colleague and a civic lawmaker. Besides IPC provisions, he has also been slapped with charges under&nbsp;Attrocities&nbsp;Act following the complaint.&nbsp;There was huge speculation in political circles after Mehta suddenly quit all party posts a couple of days ago, followed by certain videos which went viral on social media networks.

The Aam Aadmi party reacted to allegations of AAP councillor Tahir Hussain being involved in the killing of IB personnel Ankit Sharma. AAP's national spokesperson Sanjay Singh said, that action must be taken whoever is guilty, be it any person, from any party or religion. Family members of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma have accused AAP councillor from Nehru Vihar, Tahir Hussain, of plotting his death. Ankit Sharma's brother said the mob that snatched and killed Ankit was operating from Hussain's house and was pelting stones from his terrace. The 26-year-old's IB staffer's body was fished out of a clogged drain in Chand Bagh, where he lived.

Ankit Sharma, the Intelligence Bureau official whose body was pulled out of a drain in Northeast Delhi&rsquo;s Chand Bagh, was brutally stabbed to death, the post-mortem report has revealed. Sharma&rsquo;s body had &lsquo;multiple abrasion, deep cuts, by sharp edge objects&rsquo; states the post-mortem report, according to news agency IANS. The doctors who carried out the autopsy have said that the 26-year-old was stabbed multiple times.&nbsp;Sharma was working with the IB as security assistant since 2017. He lived in Chand Bagh in Northeast Delhi and had gone out to see that was happening in the locality in Tuesday and never returned. Sharma&rsquo;s family has filed a FIR was against&nbsp;Aam&nbsp;Aadmi&nbsp;Party&nbsp;councillor&nbsp;Tahir Hussain, whom they have accused of murdering him.

RJD leader&nbsp;Tejashwi&nbsp;Yadav has taken&nbsp;a dig at home minister Amit Shah after Bihar Assembly passed a resolution&nbsp;to reject Centre&rsquo;s bid to&nbsp;carry out the National Register of Citizens&nbsp;exercise in the state. The Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly said&nbsp;that&nbsp;Amit Shah had claimed that he won&rsquo;t move back an inch but the RJD and other parties have pushed him back a thousand&nbsp;kilometre. Bihar is the first NDA-ruled state, which has demanded tweaking of the revised NPR form by dropping new columns such as mentioning the dates of birth of an individual&rsquo;s parents and their birth place.

It was nothing short of a&nbsp;miracle for&nbsp;30-year-old Shabana Parveen, as she gave birth to a&nbsp;baby boy,&nbsp;after surviving a murderous attack by rioters who kicked and assaulted her and her husband in northeast Delhi's Karawal Nagar.&nbsp;Shabana's&nbsp;home was set afire by the violent mob, during the riots that conspired in northeast Delhi. Her husband, two kids and mother-in-law were sleeping inside the house on Monday night when a mob barged into their house. Some of them even kicked pregnant&nbsp;Shabana&nbsp;in the abdomen. The communal violence in&nbsp;northeast Delhi has so far claimed 38 lives and left over 200 people injured.

Akali Dal MP Naresh Gujral has complained to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik against his force's &lsquo;inaction&rsquo; on his complaint about threat to the lives of a group of 16 people trapped inside a house during the violence in Maujpur. The Rajya Sabha member, in a letter to Patnaik, which he also sent to Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal, said that police did not act on his complaint made around Wednesday midnight after an acquaintance reached out to him seeking his help in rescuing him from a house which was surrounded by mobs. He wrote much to my disappointment, no action was taken and those 16 individuals received no assistance from the Delhi Police.&nbsp;The MP also mentioned that the trapped individuals were fortunately rescued by Hindu&nbsp;neighbours.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

The Home Ministry has said that no major incident was reported from the northeast district of Delhi in the last 36 hours.&nbsp;The ministry issued a statement around 10 PM on Thursday after Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the situation in the violence-hit parts of the city in a meeting with officials and the top police brass. The ministry said 514 suspects were either arrested or detained for questioning and further arrests would be made as&nbsp;investigations proceed. Prohibitory orders imposed under section 144 will be relaxed for a total of 10 hours on Friday in view of the improvement in the situation.&nbsp;

Poor communication between local police and their seniors on Monday afternoon this week gave Shahrukh Khan, who allegedly fired eight rounds at Northeast Delhi&rsquo;s Maujpur while standing right in front of a policeman, enough time to flee. Five days after a video of Khan waving a country-made pistol at a policeman went viral, he is yet to be traced, Multiple reports said. Ten teams of the Delhi Police, including the Special Cell, have been formed to arrest him. Earlier, news agency ANI had reported that he has been arrested.&nbsp;According to police, Khan&rsquo;s father is local drug peddler who has been arrested by district police several times and has always been under scanner of local police, The Indian Express reported.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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.

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