Tamil Nadu Government order regarding the issue of minority status for schools has been cancelled .Government of Tamil Nadu had issued   an order stating that whichever school admits more than 50% of the students from minority community the school will get minority status. Against this order 140 schools have gone to the court. Justice Raja bench of High court has quashed the order of Tamil Nadu Government, stating that state government has no power to issue minority status. He also stated that Tamil Nadu Government can prefer a petition if the schools deny any Eligible Candidate admission.

Tamil Nadu Government order regarding the issue of minority status for schools has been cancelled .Government of Tamil Nadu had issued an order stating that whichever school admits more than 50% of the students from minority community the school will get minority status. Against this order 140 schools have gone to the court. Justice Raja bench of High court has quashed the order of Tamil Nadu Government, stating that state government has no power to issue minority status. He also stated that Tamil Nadu Government can prefer a petition if the schools deny any Eligible Candidate admission.

The Sri Ram Sena has announced a bounty of Rs 10 lakh for killing Amulya Leona, the woman who shouted pro-Pakistan slogans at an anti-CAA event in Bengaluru. In a video, at a protest rally organised by the outfit in Ballari, the Ram Sena worker is heard asking the government not to release Amulya or else he will kill her. The police say they haven't seen the video or heard about any such bounty. At an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act event in the city on Thursday, Amulya, had raised 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans, following which she was arrested on sedition charges and remanded to judicial custody,

The Taj Mahal will be shut for visitors from 12 noon on Monday in view of US President Donald Trump's maiden two-day visit. The Archaeological Survey of India said the move was due to security reasons. All houses, shops, restaurants and hotels on the main route and near the Taj Mahal area have been identified and teams have conducting verification ahead of the US President's visit. The police in Agra have asked local vendors in the city to provide their Aadhaar card as part of the verification process.

The Uttar Pradesh government is preparing to auction tonnes of gold reserve found in at Son Pahadi and Hardi village area of the state's Sonbhadra district. As per reports of Geological Survey of India and Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Geology and Mining, the estimated gold is said to be around 3,000 tonnes, which is about 5 times India's official gold reserves. The new reserves are estimated to be worth Rs 12 lakh crore. The government has also set up a seven-member team for auctioning of these blocks through e-tendering process.

An FIR has been filed against AIMIM leader Waris Pathan for his comment at a rally where he said, 15 crore Muslims can give a fitting reply to the country's 100 crore Hindus. The FIR has been filed in Karnataka's Kalaburagi and Pathan has been booked for abetting commission of an offence by the public, provocation with intent to cause riot and promoting enmity between different groups. After facing flak, Pathan on Friday said, his comments were taken out of context and he respects India's plurality.

Female trainee clerks of the Surat Municipal Corporation were allegedly made to stand naked together in a room for a medical test at a civic body-run hospital. The Surat Municipal Commissioner ordered a probe into incident after complaints from several women. About 10 female trainee clerks of the civic body said they were made to stand naked for a medical test in the gynaecology ward of the hospital and reportedly checked for pregnancy. A three-member committee to probe the allegations and submit a report in 15 days.

As a court sent sedition-accused Amulya Leona to 14 days in custody, the girl&rsquo;s father has said that he will not fight for her release and even if she rots in jail. In a video in which the girl&rsquo;s father is seen with men purportedly from a right-wing group, he says that he had warned her about her&nbsp;behaviour. This as reports also said that the girl&rsquo;s house was&nbsp;vandalised&nbsp;hours after a video showing her shout pro-Pakistan slogans while AIMIM chief&nbsp;Assaduddin&nbsp;Owaisi was on dais at an anti-CAA event went viral. Meanwhile, Karnataka chief minister Yeddyurappa has claimed that&nbsp;Leona had links with the&nbsp;naxals. The viral video also showed girl shouting pro-India slogans after&nbsp;organisers&nbsp;of the Bengaluru event snatched her mic.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Suraj Lata Devi, Arjuna Awardee and former captain of Indian Women's Hockey team has alleged that she was brutally beaten by her husband over dowry. In her complaint, she says her husband tied her up and mercilessly thrashed her for nearly three hours in a drunken state. The former hockey captain claims that her husband wanted a piece of land, for which he subjected her to physical and mental abuse. Suraj Lata Devi has led India to win gold for three consecutive years &mdash; during the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the 2003 Afro-Asian Games and the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.

A horrifying video of a Dalit man being brutalised by a bunch of Rajput men in Rajasthan has sent shock waves across the country. In the video, reportedly from Nagaur in Rajasthan, a Dalit man is seen screaming and begging as some Rajput men beat him and one of them insert a screwdriver into his rectum. The barbaric torture was meted out reportedly on the charge of a theft. Police have registered a case after the video went viral on social media. Congress leader Rahul&nbsp;Gandhi has urged the state govt to take strict action in the case.

China has objected to Home Minister Amit Shah's Arunachal visit on Thursday, saying it is 'firmly opposed' to his trip as it violates Beijing's 'territorial sovereignty' and 'sabotages mutual political trust' between the two countries. Amit Shah is in Arunachal Pradesh to attend the 34th Statehood Day function and launch a number of projects related to industry and roads. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Beijing's position on the eastern sector of the China-India boundary, or the southern part of China's Tibet region, is consistent and clear.

Aam Aadmi Party's Punjab unit chief Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday confirmed that the party is open to Navjot Singh Sidhu joining the AAP, though there have been no official talks with him yet. Bhagwant Mann told the media, that Sidhu is an honest man and every person who loves Punjab and wants to work for the welfare of the state is welcome to join AAP. Navjot Sidhu initially&nbsp;held the portfolios of local governance and Tourism and Culture Ministry in the Captain Amarinder Singh government. He was handed over the Power and New and Renewable Energy Resources ministry after a cabinet reshuffle. But after numerous controversies and speaking against the Punjab CM on many occasions, Sidhu eventually resigned from his posts acrimoniously.

In a relief to Ansal brothers, the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea by the families of those who died in a fire at Delhi's Uphaar theatre in 1997. The victims' families had appeals to reopen the case seeking more jail time for the entrepreneur brothers Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal for negligence. A horrific fire at Delhi's Uphaar cinema in 1997 had killed 59 people.

In a landmark event in Karnataka, a 33-year-old Muslim man is all set to become a seer at Muruga Rajendra Mutt, in Gadag. Dewan Sharief Mullah was ordained by the Swami of the mutt on Thursday. Sharief said that nobody asked him to become the seer, adding that it was the voice of the almighty that guided him.

The Mumbai Police have beefed up security in five-star hotels located near the international airport and in other areas after a few of them received emails from an unknown sender threatening a bomb blast by Lashkar-e-Taiba. The anti-terrorism squad and crime branch officials are conducting parallel inquiries. However, a crime branch official said the email appears to be a hoax, Hindustan Times reported. The Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad has been deployed in the premises of the hotels.

19 people died in the collision between a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus &amp; a truck near Avinashi town of Tirupur district of Tamil Nadu. The dead include 14 men and 5 women. The bus was going from Bengaluru to Kerala's Ernakulam. Bodies have been taken to Tirupur govt hospital.

The Centre on Wednesday approved the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project, with an estimated central and state budget of Rs 52,497 crore. Focussed on sustainability of keeping India open defecation free and the management of solid and liquid waste, the second phase will be implemented on a mission mode between 2020-21 and 2024-25. More than 10 crore individual toilets have been constructed since the launch of the mission in 2014, and rural areas in all states have declared themselves open defecation free on October 2, 2019.

While addressing the state Assembly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday, claimed that none of the anti-CAA protesters had been killed in police firing in his state, adding that casualties were due to firing by protesters. The Bijnor Superintendent of Police reportedly had accepted that one protester had died in police firing during protests in the state, while unofficial estimates peg this number at 20. Yogi Adityanath told the assembly, that if someone tries to disturb the peace by hiding behind the tricolour, they won&rsquo;t be spared. He targeted Opposition parties saying they were supporting rioters instead of talking about farmers, women's safety and other issues. The Up CM added that if someone wants to play with the law or attack people or resort to arson, then they will be made to understand in the language they understand.

An FIR has been lodged against UP&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi and six others for allegedly raping a woman repeatedly for a month in 2017, the police said. The woman, who is now 40, lodged a complaint on February 10.&nbsp;The complainant has alleged that in 2017, Tripathi,&nbsp;MLA from Bhadohi, and six of his accomplices kept her in a hotel for a month and repeatedly raped her.&nbsp;The woman also claimed that she got pregnant and was forced to undergo an abortion.
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Thousands of protesters, including members of several Muslim outfits in Chennai, took out a long march to the Secretariat to demand that the Assembly pass a resolution against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register. The Madras High Court on Tuesday restrained the Muslim outfits from laying siege to the Secretariat, but the protesters said they will defy the court&rsquo;s order and go ahead with their plan to lay siege to the Assembly. Various Muslims organization are staging protests across Tamil Nadu

2 teachers of a govt school in Kerala's Capital Thiruvanathapuram, were asked to go on leave after they distributed pamphlets with pictures of Goddess Saraswati, Lord Ayyappa &amp; Om symbol, to students. Headmistress said that parents complained when students took pamphlets to their homes. A probe was conducted in the matter by education department and the teachers were asked to go on leave, new agency ANI has reported.

to protest the dropping of beef from the menu for state police trainees in Kerala, the Congress workers distributed beef curry and bread in front a police station in Kozhikode on Tuesday. The Congress has accused CM Pinarayi Vijayan of bowing to Sangh pressure. The Kerala police department has, however, said that reports of beef being omitted from the menu prescribed for the newly trained police batch are baseless.

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