Cafe&nbsp;Coffee&nbsp;Day founder VG Siddhartha&nbsp;was finally laid to rest in his coffee estate in&nbsp;Chikkamagaluru&nbsp;on Wednesday. His body was found on Wednesday morning by local fishermen two days after he went missing. It is believed he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. Among the thousands present at the last rites were&nbsp;Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and&nbsp;HD Kumaraswamy from the JDS.&nbsp;Siddhartha was married to former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna's first daughter Malavika. The couple has two sons.

Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha was finally laid to rest in his coffee estate in Chikkamagaluru on Wednesday. His body was found on Wednesday morning by local fishermen two days after he went missing. It is believed he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. Among the thousands present at the last rites were Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and HD Kumaraswamy from the JDS. Siddhartha was married to former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna's first daughter Malavika. The couple has two sons.

The Allahabad High Court has stayed a notice issued by the Kanpur administration seeking damages from a local resident over the destruction of property during protests against the amended citizenship law. The stay comes against the backdrop of scores of similar recovery notices sent by district authorities in Uttar Pradesh in recent weeks. The HC bench said the notice violated the guidelines laid down by the apex court in 2009 when it heard a similar case. The judges also said the issue was still pending before the Supreme Court.&nbsp; &nbsp;

The Centre has said that British parliamentarian who claimed that she was denied entry into India, had her e-visa cancelled, sources in Home Ministry told newswire ANI.&nbsp;Labour&nbsp;MP Debbie Abrahams claimed on Twitter that she was informed about her visa cancellation when she reached Delhi. But the source told ANI&nbsp;that her e-visa was cancelled and she was informed regarding the decision in advance.&nbsp;Abrahams told news agency PTI that she 'had not received any emails before February 13 and after that, she had been travelling and was away from office. Meanwhile, British High Commission spokesperson said that they were in touch with the Indian authorities to understand why Debbie Abrahams was denied entry to India.&nbsp;

Just when Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi merged his party into the BJP in Ranchi, two of his MLAs joined the Congress in Delhi. MLAs Pradeep Yadav and Bandhu&nbsp;Tirkey&nbsp;merged the party into Congress, increasing the party's strength in the house to 18.&nbsp; Congress&nbsp;incharge&nbsp;of the state, RPN Singh said that interim party president has approved the merger and now the party will&nbsp;organise&nbsp;a big rally on March 1 to be addressed by Rahul Gandhi.&nbsp;

Stating that Erdogan&rsquo;s remarks are &lsquo;completely unacceptable&rsquo;,&nbsp;India has issued a strong demarche to Turkey on the remarks made by&nbsp;Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Jammu and Kashmir&nbsp;during his Pakistan visit. MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said Erdogan&rsquo;s remarks reflect neither an understanding of history nor of the conduct of diplomacy. He also added that the remarks distort events of the past to advance a narrow minded view of the present. The demarche was sent to the Ambassador of Turkey in New Delhi.&nbsp;

The four convicts in the&nbsp;Nirbhaya&nbsp;gangrape and murder case will be hanged to death at 6am on March 3. This after a Delhi court issued fresh death warrants against convicts Mukesh Singh. Pawan Gupta,&nbsp;Akshay&nbsp;Thakur and Vinay Sharma.&nbsp;Special Public Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan apprised the court about the current status of the case and also stated that three out of four convicts have already exhausted their legal remedies.&nbsp;He also mentioned that Delhi High Court had given seven-day time to the convicts and that period is over.&nbsp;

People have right to protest but can&rsquo;t block roads, the Supreme Court said on&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh protest as it heard&nbsp;a plea seeking directions to the Delhi Police to ensure smooth traffic flow on the Kalindi Kunj stretch, which remains blocked by CAA dissenters since December 15, last year. Asking the protesters, most of whom are women, to come to a reasonable ground, the top court&nbsp;appointed interlocutors for the resolution of deadlock.&nbsp;The Kalindi Kunj road is a vital route since it connects three states - Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The top court also&nbsp;wondered if the agitation could be shifted elsewhere.&nbsp;

India is looking at setting up a separate theatre command for Jammu and Kashmir, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Monday without offering any more details.&nbsp;In an interaction with journalists, Gen Rawat also added that Indian Navy's Eastern and Western commands will be integrated into the Peninsula command which will be rolled out by the end of 2021. Also that&nbsp;the Indian Air Force will helm the air defence command and all-long range missiles, as well as air defence assets, will come under it. The new air defence command will&nbsp;be rolled out by the beginning of next year. India will also have a separate training and doctrinal command and logistics command, he said.

India on Monday denied a British MP, Debbie Abrahams,&nbsp;entry into India after she landed at New Delhi's&nbsp;international airport, according to multiple reports. Debbie Abrahams, a Labour Party Member of Parliament who chairs a parliamentary group focused on Kashmir, was unable to clear customs after her valid Indian visa was rejected, her aide&nbsp;Harpreet Upal, told The Associated Press.&nbsp;Upal&nbsp;said the immigration officials did not cite any reason for denying Abrahams entry and revoking her visa which is valid until October 2020. In a statement,&nbsp;Abraham&nbsp;said, "I&rsquo;m prepared to let the fact that I&rsquo;ve been treated like a criminal go, and I hope they will let me visit my family and friends".&nbsp;Abrahams has been an outspoken critic of the Indian government's move to revoke Article 370 in J&amp;K.&nbsp;The Ministry of External Affairs has not commented on the matter.

The Shiv Sena on Monday said the&nbsp;ongoing preparation for the upcoming visit of US President&nbsp;Donald Trump is a reflection of the "slave mentality" of&nbsp;Indians. In&nbsp;an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' the party&nbsp;took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi over the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's move to&nbsp;build a wall on a plot to "hide the slums" on the route through&nbsp;which Trump's convoy would pass. "Former prime minister Indira Gandhi had once given&nbsp;the slogan 'Garibi Hatao', which was ridiculed for a long&nbsp;time. It seems now Modi's plan is 'Garibi Chupao'" the Marathi publication said. "Is there any financial allocation for such a wall&nbsp;being built in Ahmedabad? Is the US going to offer loan to&nbsp;India to build such walls across the country?" it wondered.

Delhi BJP leader Kapil Mishra triggered fresh controversy after he equated the December 15 violence at Jamia University to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. In a tweet, Mishra said, "Had Kasab ran inside a library along with his gun on that day, today he would be called innocent". His comment comes an ongoing video war over the Jamia violence. On Sunday, the Jamia Coordination Committee released CCTV footage showing how police personnel armed with batons and dressed in riot gear entered the library and started thrashing students who were studying. Following which, another video released by Delhi Police surfaced, in which people carrying stones in their hands with faces covered, were seen entering the library from a back door.

India is one of the few countries whose actions are compliant with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the rise in temperature to below two degree Celsius, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.&nbsp;Addressing COP13 delegates in Gandhinagar via video conferencing from Delhi, Modi said India has been championing climate action based on values of conservation, sustainable lifestyle and green development model.&nbsp;He also said that India is now working to protect migratory birds. "India is one of the few countries whose actions are compliant with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping rise in temperature below 2&nbsp;&deg;C," said Prime Minister Modi.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Shiv Sena slammed the BJP over the ongoing preparations for US President Donald Trump's visit calling it a reflection of the "slave mentality" of Indians. In its mouthpiece Saamna, the Sena said Trump's India trip is like the visit of a Badshah. The Sena took a dig at the construction of a wall to cover slums in Ahmedabad ahead of Trump's visit, saying Trump's trip would neither stop the fall of the value of the Rupee in forex market nor improve the lives of slum dwellers. The editorial said, before Independence, when the Queen would to visit one of their slave nations like India, these kind of preparations would be done. Targeting PM Modi, the article said former prime minister Indira Gandhi was ridiculed for the slogan 'Garibi Hatao', but Modi's plan now seems to be 'Garibi chhupao'.

RSS&nbsp;chief&nbsp;Mohan Bhagwat has said the cases of divorce are found more in "educated&nbsp;and affluent" families nowadays as education and affluence&nbsp;brings arrogance along, which results in families falling&nbsp;apart. He went on to add, "We expect swayamsevaks to tell their family members&nbsp;about their activities in the Sangh, because many times women&nbsp;members of the family have to carry out more painful work than&nbsp;us to ensure that we can do what we do". He also added that confining women to homes has resulted in the&nbsp;condition of the society that we see today.

The Delhi High Court on Monday sought response of the Centre and the CBI on a plea seeking a court-monitored probe by the agency into the alleged molestation of students during a cultural festival at Delhi's&nbsp;Gargi College last week. A bench of justices GS Sistani and C Hari Shankar issued notice to the Centre and CBI on a plea filed by advocate ML Sharma.&nbsp;The petitioner has sought the preservation of all video recordings and CCTV camera footage of the college campus in his plea. On February 6, a group of men broke into the college during a college festival and allegedly groped, harassed and molested students. Students&nbsp;claim that security officials stood watching despite repeated complaints.

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday took charge as the Chief Minister of Delhi for the third time.&nbsp;Members of his Cabinet, including Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Rajendra Pal Gautam and Imran Hussain, also took charge at the Delhi Secretariat.&nbsp;The new cabinet is going to meet soon. Portfolios of the ministers are expected to be announced after the meeting.

In a big win&nbsp;for women's rights in India, the Supreme Court&nbsp;on Monday has upheld the Delhi High Court order clearing "command appointments" for women officers at par with male officers. The Supreme Court&nbsp;criticised the Centre for not implementing the judgment of the Delhi High Court which had held that women Short Service Commission&nbsp;officers should be granted permanent Commission at par with male counterparts. The top court observed that the submissions made by the government based on a written note they had submitted was a "flawed notion". The government had contended&nbsp;that&nbsp;"troops are not yet mentally schooled to accept women officers in command of units" since they are "predominantly drawn from a rural background". A Supreme Court bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Ajay Rastogi pulled up the government saying,&nbsp;"physiological features of women have no link to their rights. The mindset must change". The court also added that the permanent commission will apply to all women officers in the Army, irrespective of their years of service.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Arvind Kejriwal on taking oath as Delhi chief minister for the third successive term and extended him best wishes. Responding to Modi's tweet, Kejriwal said he wished the Prime Minister could have attended the ceremony. He added, that they must now work together towards making Delhi a city of pride for all Indians. During his address after the oath-taking, Kejriwal said he had invited Modi to the event. But the PM was on a daylong visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and couldn't attend.

Congress leader Milind Deora's praise of Arvind Kejriwal for his third consecutive victory in the recently held Delhi assembly elections may not have gone down well with some of his party colleagues. Tweeting a video of Arvind Kejriwal, Milind Deora said AAP government in Delhi managed to double its revenues to ₹60,000 crore and maintained a revenue surplus over the last five years. Kejriwal, who took oath as Delhi Chief Minister on Sunday, was also quick to retweet the video. But senior party leader Ajay Maken blasted Deora by asking him 'leave Congress' and not propagate 'half-baked facts'.

The Supreme Court will decide today on giving command position to women officers in the Indian Army and whether they should be granted permanent commission on par with male officers. In a note to the court, the government had pointed out several issues, including 'physical prowess' and 'physiological limitations', as challenges for women officers. The Centre in its note said, the composition of rank and file being male, predominantly from rural backgrounds, with prevailing societal norms, troops are not yet mentally schooled to accept women officers in command of units. The court had said 'administrative will' and 'change of mindset' are required on the issue of giving command posts to women officers in the Army.

All 406 people, housed at quarantine facility in Delhi after being brought back from Wuhan in China, tested negative for coronavirus in the final test, PTI&thinsp;reported on Sunday. They will be discharged in phased manner from Monday.&nbsp;The final samples of all the people quarantined at the Indo Tibetan Border Police facility were collected on Friday. Their samples were tested at least twice earlier and were found to be negative.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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