Playing down his ministry's notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi over his citizenship issue, home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called it a routine process. Singh said that when an MP writes to any ministry raising a query, action is taken. He called it a normal practice. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said 1.3 billion Indians have disregarded apprehensions and wholeheartedly accepted recent critical judicial verdicts, which were subjects of global discussion. The Prime Minister was speaking at the inaugural function of the International Judicial Conference 2020. PM spoke about recent crucial judgements, including in the politically-sensitive Ayodhya case. He said no country in the world can claim to achieve holistic development without gender justice, referring to laws on transgenders, and 'triple talaq'. He said the government has also taken steps to give rights to women in military service and in providing paid maternity leave for 26 weeks.

Supreme Court judge Justice Arun Mishra&nbsp;was all praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and termed him as an 'internationally acclaimed visionary' and a 'versatile genius, who thinks globally and acts locally'.&nbsp;Delivering the vote of thanks at the inaugural function of the International Judicial Conference 2020 Complementing, he thanked the PM for doing away with 1,500 obsolete laws, and said India is a responsible and most friendly member of the international community under the 'stewardship' of Modi.
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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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to accompany US President Donald Trump and his family on their visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra on Monday, reports quoting official sources said. The US President will arrive in Ahmedabad at around noon on February 24, following which, the Trumps will travel to Agra on Monday afternoon to visit the Taj Mahal. When asked if PM Modi will accompany Trump to Agra, reports citing official sources said, there were no official engagements or presence of senior dignitaries from the Indian side there as part of the plan.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia may not accompany First Lady Melania Trump to a government school during her visit to the capital next week.
ANI reported citing Delhi government sources, names of Kejriwal and Sisodia have been dropped from the school event. Earlier, they were both to attend the programme, give Melania a tour of the school and brief her about their public education experiment.
The Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that it was the centre's plan to drop the two leaders from the VVIP event. AAP leader Preeti Sharma Menon tweeted, that there is no match for the pettiness of PM Modi.

China is delaying clearance to India's proposal to send an Indian Air Force flight carrying relief material for people affected by coronavirus in China and bring back Indians from Wuhan, reports quoting official sources said. India was to send a C-17 military transport aircraft to Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on the 20th of February, but the plane could not take off as permission was not granted. Reports citing Indian officials say, China is deliberately delaying grant of clearance for the evacuation flight.
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The Shiv Sena on Friday called for the construction of a 'memorial' along the Sarayu river in Ayodhya, to pay 'tribute to the martyrs who laid their lives down for the cause of Ram Mandir'. In its mouthpiece Saamana, the Sena suggested that the memorial can be along the lines of the Amar Jawan Jyoti in Delhi, which is a 'constant reminder of the bravery of our soldiers'. Sena's demand comes after NCP chief Sharad Pawar, asked the Centre to form a trust to construct a mosque, along the lines of the Ram Mandir Trust. The Shiv Sena said, contribution of outfits such as itself, and Bajrang Dal, towards the 'Ayodhya movement cannot be forgotten'.

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.

US President Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to India next week, the White House said on Friday. Reports quoted a senior White House official saying, President Trump will talk about the shared tradition of democracy and religious freedom of the two countries, adding that Trump will raise the religious freedom issue. Responding to a question on whether the US president was planning to speak on the Citizenship Amendment Act or the National Register of Citizens, he said the US has great respect for India's democratic traditions and institutions, and will continue to encourage India to uphold those traditions.

Senior Aam Aadmi party leader Sanjay Singh on Friday said, political strategist Prashant Kishor can join the Aam Aadmi Party if he wants. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had signed up with Prashant Kishor's I-PAC in the run-up to assembly poll, which he won comfortably and became the chief minister for the third time. Kishor was sacked from the Janata Dal United last month after he spoke out against the party&rsquo;s stand on the citizenship law.

With a trade deal off the table, India and the US are looking to focus sharply on defence cooperation during the two-day visit of US President Donald Trump to India, say reports. Talks on the finalisation of the Basic Exchange and Co-operation Agreement or the BECA are reportedly scheduled to begin as early as March. The deal will allow India and the US to exchange geospatial maps to get pinpoint military accuracy of automated hardware systems and weapons such as cruise and ballistic missiles. The two countries are likely to sign multiple deals for defence purchases, including a $2.4 billion deal for 24 MH-60R Sikorsky helicopters, and a $930 million deal for six Apache AH-64E attack helicopters for the army from Boeing. There could also be an order for eight Poseidon P8I multi-mission aircraft for the Indian Navy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday handed over a 'chadar' to be offered at the Ajmer Sharif dargah in the coming days.&nbsp;The Prime Minister's Office posted pictures on its Twitter handle of Modi handing over the 'chadar' to a delegation from the Ajmer Sharif Sufi shrine. Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was also present on the occasion.

Another nun from Kerala on Friday accused the former bishop of Jalandhar Franco Mulakkal of sexual harassment. The allegation comes a day before a Kottayam court is slated to take up the priest&rsquo;s discharge petition in a case in which he is charged with raping a nun. In her statement to the police, the nun, who is also a witness in the ongoing case against Mulakkal, said that she was sexually harassed by the deposed bishop in 2015. Hindustan Times quoted the nun as saying that she was forced to show her private parts and the bishop often used to strip during the video calls that he made to her. She also claimed that&nbsp;some other nuns&nbsp;had also undergone similar plight but were scared to speak against the &lsquo;powerful&rsquo; bishop. The report says that&nbsp;the nun had given the statement the SIT last year but the police did not file a separate case against Mulakkal after the 36-year-old nun insisted she was not willing to pursue the charges.

Police have provided security&nbsp;to the residence of Amulya Leona, who had raised "Pakistan&nbsp;Zindabad" slogans, in Chikkamagaluru district after it was&nbsp;allegedly attacked by right-wing workers on&nbsp;Friday. According to news agency&nbsp;PTI, a group of people had targeted her house and&nbsp;window panes were damaged.&nbsp;Amulya's father Wazi subsequently lodged a complaint following which police personnel were deployed near the house&nbsp;for the family's security. The attack comes after the woman&nbsp;was arrested&nbsp;on charges of sedition and produced before a magistrate court&nbsp;which remanded her to 14 days judicial custody.

No one needs to fear CAA and the NPR is not going to throw anyone out of the country, this is what&nbsp;Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had to say on Friday, after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This was Thackeray's first meeting with Modi after taking over as the chief minister of Maharashtra and the fallout with the BJP.
He also denied that there was any friction among the constituents of the "Maha Aghadi. The Congress and the NCP are reportedly miffed over the chief minister's stand on NPR and CAA.

Claiming that 26 tigers are missing from Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan, BJP MP and member of the National Tiger Conservation Authority Diya Kumari has written to the Union environment minister, demanding a high-level inquiry in the matter.&nbsp;Kumari, in a letter to Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, said a report has been submitted to the state government, stating that 26 tigers are missing from the park, which is located in Sawai Madhopur district.&nbsp;The MP has also stated in her letter that the attitude of officials concerned and authorities of the park was "half-hearted and lackadaisical". She also said the poachers must be identified, caught and strict action must be taken against them to prevent recurrence of incidents.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Friday, his first visit to the national capital after taking over the reins of the state. The chief minister's son Aaditya Thackeray, who is a minister in his cabinet, also accompanied him. The BJP and the Shiv Sena had a bitter fallout post assembly polls in Maharashtra last year over the chief minister's post.&nbsp;The Sena later aligned with arch-rivals Congress and the NCP to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi government.

China on Friday denied any delay in allowing a special Indian flight to the coronavirus-hit Wuhan city to deliver medical supplies and evacuate remaining Indians from there, saying the concerned departments of both the countries were in touch to finalise the schedule. India on February 17 announced that it will send Indian Air Force's largest plane C-17 Globemaster with medical supplies to Wuhan&nbsp;and bring back its nationals as well as citizens from all neighbouring countries who were still stuck there on the return flight. The plane was supposed to take off on Thursday but as of Friday afternoon it was still waiting for China's clearance, official sources told the Hindustan Times. This as the&nbsp;death toll in China rose to 2,236 with the overall confirmed infection cases climbing to 75,465.

The Madhya Pradesh government on&nbsp;Friday scrapped a controversial circular that set sterilisation targets for health workers&nbsp;and warned of salary loss for not meeting goals. The circular, issued by the state unit of the National&nbsp;Health Mission directed each male MPHW to get at least&nbsp;get one man sterilised in this fiscal, which ends on March 31,&nbsp;or their salaries would be withheld and they would be given&nbsp;compulsory retirement. After the order created a furore, Health Minister Tulsi&nbsp;Silawat announced its immediate withdrawal. The minister told news agency PTI - the language in the circular was not proper.

A special Mumbai court on Friday&nbsp;granted bail to Kapil Wadhawan, chairman and MD of Dewan&nbsp;Housing Finance who is accused of having dealings with&nbsp;dead gangster Iqbal Mirchi in the past.&nbsp;Kapil Wadhawan&nbsp;was arrested on January 27 by the&nbsp;Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money&nbsp;Laundering Act.&nbsp;According to the ED, Kapil Wadhawan was instrumental&nbsp;in laundering huge amounts of money as part of an illegal&nbsp;deal with Mirchi. A sum of ₹12,773 crores was siphoned off from DHFL&nbsp;and a&nbsp;part of the loan was used to make payments to&nbsp;Mirchi.&nbsp;Mirchi, who died in 2013 in London, was allegedly the right-hand man of global&nbsp;terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.

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