A 6-year-old&nbsp;Massachusetts boy is raising money for the Australian bushfires, one clay koala at a time. Owen Colley&nbsp;has already raised over $100,000 by selling koalas made with clay. He gives one koala to each person who donates donates $50 or more towards the devastating fires. called&nbsp;Owen's clay koalas, it takes 3-4 minutes to make one and then 17 minutes to bake the final product in the oven. The Owen family has received&nbsp;such an overwhelming response that they have launched a&nbsp;GoFundMe&nbsp;campaign online.

A 6-year-old Massachusetts boy is raising money for the Australian bushfires, one clay koala at a time. Owen Colley has already raised over $100,000 by selling koalas made with clay. He gives one koala to each person who donates donates $50 or more towards the devastating fires. called Owen's clay koalas, it takes 3-4 minutes to make one and then 17 minutes to bake the final product in the oven. The Owen family has received such an overwhelming response that they have launched a GoFundMe campaign online.

A photograph of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's daughter Tina Yadav has gone viral with the claims that she was participating in an anti-CAA rally in Lucknow. But the party has issued a clarification that she was only in the area when someone clicked a selfie with her.
14-year-old Tina Yadav was spotted at Lucknow's Clock Tower on Sunday, where hundreds of women were sitting on protest against the citizenship law. Samajwadi Party has said Tina had gone for a walk there, when someone clicked a selfie with her. SP has rejected reports of Akhilesh Yadav's daughter joining the ongoing protests against Citizenship Act.

After waiting for over 6 hours, Delhi CM and AAP candidate from New Delhi constituency, Arvind Kejriwal filed his nomination for the assembly polls, to be held on February 8. Holding token number 45, Kejriwal waited to file his nomination on the last day for filing nominations. An AAP MLA said dozens of election candidates without proper nomination papers or enough proposers were refusing to let the Delhi chief minister file his papers. Greater Kailash MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed around 35 candidates were causing the delay. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also accused the BJP of trying to stop Kejriwal from filing his nomination.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who was barred from entering Delhi for four weeks as part of his bail terms, will be allowed to return, a court ruled on Tuesday. But there are some conditions. The Tis Hazari court, modifying&nbsp;its&nbsp;earlier order&nbsp;said, he could enter the capital if a schedule of his movements was submitted, at least 24 hours prior, to senior police officers including DCP&nbsp;Crime. This after Azad's&nbsp;lawyers asked the court to reconsider the terms of the bail, claiming they&nbsp;violated his fundamental rights, including the right to participate in elections. They also pointed out that&nbsp;Azad was receiving medical treatment at Delhi's AIIMS&nbsp;for polycythaemia. A Delhi court last week had granted bail to Azad,&nbsp;who is accused of inciting people during an anti-CAA protest at Jama Masjid&nbsp;on December 20.

The Civil Aviation Ministry has directed seven airports including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata to make arrangements for screening of passengers arriving from China in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The other airports include&nbsp;Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin.&nbsp;Airlines flying in from any airport in China including Hong Kong have been asked to make in-flight announcements requesting passengers with a history of fever and cough and travel to Wuhan city in the past 14 days to self-declare at the port of arrival. The action-plan includes thermal screening of passengers. This is in continuation to the travel advisory issued by the Union Health Ministry which&nbsp;asking citizens to follow certain precautionary measures while visiting China.

Shaheen Bagh protestors on Tuesday met Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal, saying they will allow passage to school buses, even though their protest will continue. Baijal also tweeted about the meet saying he assured that he would convey their concerns to appropriate authorities, along with appealing them to call off their agitation. Baijal said the venue of the protest has been the cause of continued inconvenience to school children, patients, daily commuters, local residents, etc. due to the road blockade. Anti-CAA protests have been underway in Shaheen Bagh for over a month now. The agitation has also resulted in traffic congestion.

Three judges of Supreme Court on Wednesday will take up about 144 petitions that have been filed over the last few days, on the Citizenship Amendment Act that has led to protests in several parts of the country. While most of the pleas challenge the constitutional validity of the new law, some seek a declaration that the act is constitutional. The petitions first came up for a hearing before the top court on December 18, 2019 when the court issued notices to the centre and Attorney General KK Venugopal. The Centre subsequently filed a transfer petition seeking transfer of all CAA-related cases from high courts to the Supreme Court.

Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janta Party on Tuesday announced that it will not be contesting Delhi elections, citing an issue with the distribution of election symbols. The party announced on its Twitter account, that it had requested for the key or the chappal to be given as the election symbol, but these were given to other parties. The JJP is the second BJP ally to not contest elections in Delhi after Akali Dal pulled out on monday citing differences with the BJP on CAA and NRC.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights&nbsp;has asked Delhi authorities to identify and arrange counselling for children seen at protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Shaheen Bagh, along with their parents.
In a letter to the District Magistrate of South East Delhi, the rights body said children at the Shaheen Bagh protest 'may suffer from mental trauma' due to rumours and miscommunication.
The NCPCR said children are asking their parents if they will be sent to detention centres, where they will not get food and clothing, if they fail to produce documents proving their citizenship.&nbsp;The Commission said, a report on steps taken to help the children should be submitted in 10 days.

Fugitive businessman Nirav Modi's seized assets including artworks, luxury watches, handbags and cars will go under the hammer at Saffronart's two upcoming auctions. The&nbsp;Mumbai-based auction house will conduct the sales on behalf of the Enforcement Directorate. While the first sale, a live auction, will be held on February 27 in Mumbai, the second will be an online sale on March 3-4.&nbsp;Highlights of the auction include 15 artworks by significant modern and contemporary Indian artists like a 1935 masterpiece by Amrita Sher-Gil, estimated at ₹12-18 crores; an oil on canvas by M F Husain from his "Mahabharata" series, also estimated at ₹12-18 crores, a painting by V S Gaitonde estimated at ₹7-9 crores&nbsp;and one by Manjit Bawa, estimated at ₹3-5 crores. Watches going on sale include a Jaeger Lecoultre Men's "Reverso&nbsp;Gyrotourbillon 2" Limited Edition wristwatch, and a Gerrard Perregaux Men's "Opera One" wristwatch.

Eight Indian tourists, including four minor children, died on Tuesday after they fell unconscious due to a possible gas leak in their room at a resort in Nepal.&nbsp;The Indian nationals were airlifted to HAMS hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival. The deceased - two couples and four children - were part of a group of 15 people travelling from Kerala to Pokhara.&nbsp;According to the manager at the resort, the guests were staying in one room and turned on a gas heater to keep themselves warm. All the windows and the door of the room were bolted from inside and the police suspect that they might have passed out due to lack of ventilation.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will be India's chief guest at this year's Republic Day celebrations.&nbsp;Prime Minister Modi&nbsp;extended the invitation to&nbsp;Bolsonaro&nbsp;in November on the sidelines of the 11th BRICS Summit.&nbsp;Bolsonaro will begin his four-day visit to India on Friday, along with a team of seven ministers, top officials and a large business delegation&nbsp;to explore ways to boost trade ties.&nbsp;Bolsonaro, a former army captain, won a landslide victory in Brazil's presidential election in October 2018 and took the reins of the country in January last year.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that newly amended citizenship law will not be scrapped despite protests over it. He attempted to allay fears saying that there is no provision in the amended law for taking anyone's citizenship away and that "a canard" is being spread against the CAA by the Congress, SP, BSP, and Trinamool Congress. He also&nbsp;challenged Congress opposition leaders to hold a discussion with him on the CAA at a public forum.
Addressing a rally in Lucknow Shah also declared that construction of a Ram temple "touching the skies" in Ayodhya will begin within three months.

Superstar Rajinikanth, who has enraged a section of people with his comments on Draividian icon Periyar, has refused to apologise for his remarks. The actor has maintained that whatever he said was a fact and based on media reports and he will not apologise for that. At a recent event, the megastar has spoken about a protest by Periyar in 1971 where Hindu deities were reportedly abused. The remark has led to protests against the star.

Ahead of filing his nomination for the Delhi assembly elections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the journey for the next five years starts now and his aim is to beat corruption and take Delhi forward. The&nbsp;AAP national convener was to file his nomination on Monday after a roadshow but failed to do so due to delay in the event.&nbsp;&nbsp;Kejriwal also added that while the aim of opposition parties is to defeat him in the upcoming polls, his aim is to beat corruption and take Delhi forward.

Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijay Singh showed his solidarity with the ongoing anti-CAA protests with a trip to Shaheen Bagh&nbsp;on Monday, where citizens have been demonstrating against the contentious citizenship act for over a month.&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;slammed the act and NRC&nbsp;as a 'divisive' policy of the Modi-government.&nbsp; While the former CM sat along with the protesters, he refused to give a speech calling the citizen-led protest an inappropriate political forum.

Karnataka police and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Sunday demolished a shanty town in North Bengaluru based on a rumour that 'illegal Bangladeshi migrants' resided there, according to a report by The Wire. Upon further investigation, it was found that the residents were all Indians. The eviction drive was fueled by social media posts which included a video posted by BJP MLA Arvind Limbavali which blamed the migrants for spoiling&nbsp;the environment. After sending a notice to the land owner which also referred to the viral videos, the police conducted an eviction drive. The owner has asserted that all residents were Indians with valid documentation.

JDU&nbsp;vice president and former MP Pavan&nbsp;Verma&nbsp;has written to party chief and Bihar&nbsp;CM Nitish&nbsp;Kumar&nbsp;seeking 'ideological&nbsp;clarity'. Verma&nbsp;has slammed JDU's&nbsp;tie-up with the BJP&nbsp;for Delhi polls, reminding&nbsp;Nitish Kumar that he has expressed grave apprehensions about the BJP-RSS combine and yet has extended party's tie-up beyond Bihar.&nbsp;Calling CAA-NRC-NPR BJP's divisive agenda that is mutilating peace and harmony in the country, the JDU leader has asked Kumar to come clean on the issue.

The Andhra Pradesh assembly has passed a controversial legislation aimed at establishing three capitals in the state amid protests by opposition leaders and farmers on Monday night. CM Jagan Reddy wants to make Visakhapatnam the executive capital of Andhra, Amaravati its legislative capital and Kurnool its judicial capital. The opposition TDP opposed the move and as many as 17 of its MLAs were suspended for "unruly behaviour". While farmers protested outside the assembly complex, Chandrababu Babu was among several TDP leaders detained for protesting. Naidu was later released.

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday arrested NRI businessman C C Thampi in connection with a case of alleged money laundering it is probing against Robert Vadra and arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, The Indian Express has reported. Thampi is said to be a close aide of Vadra and is alleged to have helped him invest in real estate assets in London. Thampi runs a company named Skylight FZE in Dubai which shares its name with a company owned by Vadra in India.

A day after IMF's Gita Gopinath said the downgrade for India was responsible for the trimming down of global growth forecasts, former FM P Chidambaram warned that govt ministers could launch an attack on the IMF chief. Chidambaram tweeted that India-born chief economist of the IMF was the first to denounce demonetisation and we must prepare ourselves for attacks by govt on the IMF and Gopinath. he senior Congress leader added that he wouldn't be surprised if India grew slower than 4.8 per cent in 2019-20.

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