Reiterating its stand on privatising Air India, the Centre on Tuesday said that selling the cash-strapped carrier is the the only way out. Union minister for civil aviation&nbsp; announced that there will be no more govt funds for the national carrier and it will be sold.

Reiterating its stand on privatising Air India, the Centre on Tuesday said that selling the cash-strapped carrier is the the only way out. Union minister for civil aviation announced that there will be no more govt funds for the national carrier and it will be sold.

Former chief minister Ashok Chavan has disclosed that Congress president Sonia&nbsp;Gandhi had sought a written undertaking from the Shiv Sena&nbsp;that the new government in Maharashtra would work within the&nbsp;ambit of the Constitution. Sonia Gandhi had given clear guidelines that the state&nbsp;government must work within the frame of Constitution, the&nbsp;state PWD minister said at a meeting in Nanded on Sunday.&nbsp;"She told us that first we should get this in writing&nbsp;(from Sena) that the government should work within the ambit of the Constitution and shouldn't violate the Constitution&nbsp;preamble. We were told to convey this to Uddhav Thackeray,"&nbsp;Chavan said. Thackeray was sworn in CM in November last year,&nbsp;heading an alliance government with the Congress and NCP,&nbsp;after the October Assembly elections.

Stepping up the attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday dared the AAP chief to visit the anti-CAA protest site at Shaheen Bagh&nbsp;so that people of Delhi can decide whom to vote for in the assembly election. The BJP&nbsp;leader also went on to add that the Delhi Police has booked Sharjeel Imam, a JNU student, on sedition charge for his comment of "trying to cut the chicken's neck" and break the northeast from the rest of the country.&nbsp;Imam was one of the initial organisers of the Shaheen Bagh protest.

A British court on Monday ordered that a luxury yacht owned by Force India Limited be sold and its proceeds be used to pay back Qatar National Bank to enforce its mortgage on the vessel.&nbsp;During court proceedings, brought by the bank in England, it had been claimed that liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya's son Siddharth Mallya was the ultimate beneficial owner of the yacht.&nbsp;However, the bank said that without grappling with that issue, their claim was focused on recovering outstanding loan payments estimated at around Euro 6 million.

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.

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested the&nbsp;CMD of Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL), Kapil Wadhawan, in connection with its money laundering probe against dead gangster Iqbal Mirchi.&nbsp;They said Wadhawan has been arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act or&nbsp;PMLA&nbsp;as he was allegedly not cooperating in the probe.&nbsp;The case relates to Mirchi's Mumbai properties, which have been called as proceeds of crime by the ED. Three such properties were sold to Sunblink, the company linked to Wadhawan brothers Kapil and Dheeraj. Mirchi, who died in 2013 in London, was alleged to be the right-hand man of global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim in drug trafficking and extortion crimes.

An Air India Boeing 747 has been kept on standby for the evacuation of Indian citizens from Wuhan city of China, the&nbsp;epicentre of novel coronavirus outbreak, news agency ANI has quoted a source as saying.&nbsp;The aircraft is waiting for the Centre's decision regarding the evacuation.&nbsp;While the majority of the Indian students left for home for the Chinese New Year holidays, over 250 students are said to be still in the city and its surrounding areas.&nbsp;The infectious virus, has so far claimed over 80 lives and China has reported over 2700 confirmed cases.
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A Congress delegation led by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met top officials of the National Human Rights Commission on Monday, demanding a probe into alleged police atrocities against anti-CAA protesters in Uttar Pradesh.&nbsp;The party leaders met the NHRC officials here and highlighted the alleged brutalities committed by the Uttar Pradesh police on agitators during the anti-CAA stir.&nbsp;The leaders who met the NHRC officials included Mohsina Kidwai, Salman Khurshid, PL Punia, Jitin Prasada, Abhishek Singhvi, Rajiv Shukla and UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu. They demanded a thorough probe into the deaths that took place in the state during the violent protests against the amendments in the country's citizenship law.

The government on Monday signed an accord with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), one of the dreaded insurgent groups of Assam.&nbsp;The All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU), which has been spearheading a movement for a Bodoland state since 1972, and another group called United Bodo People's Organisation were also signatories to the accord.&nbsp;In the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the tripartite agreement was signed by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, the top leadership of the four factions of the NDFB, ABSU, Joint Secretary in the Home Ministry Satyendra Garg and Assam Chief Secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna.&nbsp;The home minister described the agreement as "historic" and it will bring a permanent solution to the decades-old problems of the Bodo people.

The West Bengal government is now the fourth state to pass a resolution against the Citizenship (Amendment)&nbsp;Act in the Assembly.&nbsp;The resolution appeals to the Union government to&nbsp;repeal the amended citizenship law and revoke plans to&nbsp;implement NRC and update NPR. Three states - Kerala, Rajasthan and Punjab - have&nbsp;already passed resolutions against the new citizenship law. The law has emerged as the latest flashpoint in the&nbsp;state, with the TMC opposing the contentious legislation tooth&nbsp;and nail, and the BJP pressing for its implementation.

The Enforcement Directorate has found that the recent violent protests in Uttar Pradesh against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) had a "financial link" with the Kerala-based outfit PFI, official sources said on Monday.&nbsp;The agency, which is probing the Popular Front of India (PFI) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) since 2018, has found that at least ₹120 crores were deposited in bank accounts in western Uttar Pradesh after the Act was passed by Parliament late last year. It is suspected and alleged that these funds were used by PFI affiliates to fuel anti-CAA protests in various parts of UP, sources said, citing the findings of the Enforcement Directorate probe report. They said the ED has shared these findings with the Union home ministry.
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Attacking Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, the AAP govt is standing with the people of Shaheen Bagh, but can't raise their voice when the students are not able to go to school, people are not able to go to offices and ambulances are not able to reach hospital in time.
"Shaheen Bagh is not an area anymore, it is an idea, where the Indian flag is being used as a cover for the people who want to divide the country, it is being supported by tukde-tukde gang"
In a counter attack to BJP's allegations of doing vote bank politics, Kejriwal said that the BJP is doing politics over Shaheen Bagh protests, adding that everyone has a right to protest.
"The BJP does not want the road to be reopened. It will be reopened only after February 8...BJP leaders should immediately go and talk to Shaheen Bagh and open the way,"

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has moved the Supreme Court against a plea seeking a ban on polygamy and nikah halala, saying that people of another faith should not be allowed to question religious practices of Muslims. Speaking on the Uniform Civil Code, the muslim law board said, that Article 44 of the Constitution, which talked about having a common law for the entire country, was 'only a directive principle of state policy and is not enforceable'. The plea in the top court was filed by advocate and BJP member Ashwini Upadhyay, claiming practices like polygamy and nikah hala violate a Muslim woman's right to live with dignity. The Muslim law board countered saying these practices are beyond the purview of judicial review.

Ahead of the Union Budget, Chief Justice of India SA Bobde on Friday&nbsp;asked the Centre to take steps to reduce the tax burden on citizens and ensure the country's all-round development. Speaking at an event held to mark the 79th Foundation ceremony of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal in Delhi, Chief Justice Bobde said that "excessive taxation" can be seen as a form of social injustice imposed on the people.

The government is likely to bring a bill in the Budget session of Parliament to give the Election Commission statutory backing to collect the Aadhaar number of new applicants and existing voters to check multiple entries in electoral rolls.&nbsp;Accepting the proposal to give it legal backing to collect Aadhaar data, the Law Ministry is learnt to have asked the poll panel to ensure that the data is protected at multiple levels. News agency PTI&nbsp;citing sources said the ministry would soon move the Union Cabinet to bring a bill to amend the electoral law. In August 2015, a Supreme Court order on Aadhaar put brakes on Election Commission's project to link Aadhaar&nbsp;number with voters' electoral data to check multiple entries in electoral rolls.

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to Centre over a bunch of fresh petitions challenging the Citizenship Act and NPR. Refusing to stay the NPR process, the Court has tagged the pleas along with other CAA matters for a later hearing. The plea against NPR says that information collected for the National Population Register (NPR) is not guaranteed to be protected from misuse. The plea added that NPR data is different from information collected for Aadhaar or the Census, wherein it is protected. The petition has also raised concerns that such data may lead to 'unsanctioned state surveillance of private citizens'.

The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved the decision to abolish state's legislative council after chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy questioned the need for an Upper House. The TDP boycotted Monday&rsquo;s session against the abolition of the council, the opposition party has alleged that the YSR Congress is poaching the members of legislative councils. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday said that the assembly will thoroughly discuss the continuance of the council and take a call after the Upper House blocked two crucial bills aimed at creating three capitals for the state and referred them to a select committee on Wednesday for further scrutiny.

Death row convict in the 2012 Nirbhaya murder and gang-rape case Mukesh Singh on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing on his plea against the dismissal of his mercy petition by the President. The 32-year-old's mercy plea was dismissed by President Kovind on January 17. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said, "If somebody is going to be hanged then nothing can be more urgent than this". The Chief Justice asked Mukesh's lawyer to approach the mentioning officer immediately as the hanging is scheduled on February 1. Mukesh had moved the mercy petition after the Supreme Court had dismissed his curative petition against his conviction and death sentence.

Ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, newly-elected BJP president JP Nadda targeted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by invoking the 2016 incident involving JNU students Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid. In a series of tweets, Nadda said, Kanhaiya and Umar Khalid raised seditious slogans in JNU. Law enforcement agencies investigated the matter and in Jan 2019 were ready to file chargesheet, they sought Kejriwal&rsquo;s permission to prosecute this tukde tukde gang but even one year later, no permission was granted. Nadda asked Kejriwal why he was supporting those who want to break India? Nadda has accused the Delhi government of 'obstruction of justice' by withholding sanction to prosecute them.

Slamming the govt on the citizenship law, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday asked, if Adnan Sami can get Indian citizenship and the Padma Shri award, what is the need of bringing CAA? Digvjaya said that the new law has been brought to create a rift between Hindus and Muslims. Adnan Sami was among 118 people who was conferred with the Padma Shri award, his home state has been shown as Maharashtra. The singer became an Indian citizen in 2016.

India has expressed its reservations ahead a debate in the EU parliament on resolutions against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Reports quoting govt sources said, the European Union parliament should not take any action questioning the rights and authority of democratically elected legislatures. India hopes that the "sponsors and supporters" of the resolutions will engage with the government to get a full and accurate assessment of facts before they proceed further. The resolution in the EU parliament has been tabled by a large chunk of its members, who have said the new law marks a dangerous shift in India's citizenship regime.

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