Shaurya Doval, son of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, has been given 'Z' category security in view of potential threats to him. Shaurya Doval heads the think-tank 'India Foundation' and he was brought under VIP cover after a report by central agencies claimed he faced threats from people inimical to his father. 10 BJP candidates from Bengalhave also been accorded VIP security by the Centre for a limited period.

The United States Embassy has said while it has no objection to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia accompanying First Lady Melania Trump on her visit to a Delhi government school, but it should not&nbsp;be seen as&nbsp;a political event. Reports had earlier said that Kejriwal and Sisodia would not accompany Melania Trump on her visit to the south Delhi school on Tuesday. Melania, who is arriving in India on February 24 as part of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s official visit, will interact with students and observe a 'happiness class'.&nbsp;

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor renewed his pitch for fresh election for the party&nbsp;organisation&nbsp;and the presidential post. He said the&nbsp;Congress must fix its leadership issues on top priority to address the growing perception among the people that the party is &lsquo;adrift.&nbsp;In an interview to PTI, Tharoor also said that it was up to Rahul Gandhi to take a call if he wishes to return as Congress chief, but if he does not change his earlier stance then the party needs to find an 'active and full-time leadership' so that the party can move forward as the nation expects.&nbsp;

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will visit Sabarmati Ashram, the house from where&nbsp;Mahatama&nbsp;Gandhi led his 'Satyagraha', 90 years ago. The entire roadshow for the mega event will now be 22 kms long. Ahmedabad Police Commissioner Ashish Bhatia said the US President and his wife will stop by at the Ashram on their way to the Motera cricket stadium where the 'Namaste Trump' event has been&nbsp;organised&nbsp;in his&nbsp;honour. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will accompany them from the Ahmedabad airport to the Ashram and the stadium. One of the residences of Gandhi and his wife Kasturba, the Ashram on the banks of river Sabarmati, is a national monument.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Efforts by the Aligarh Police to remove women protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act met with protests in Uparkot area of Aligarh on Sunday. Kiosks were burnt and the police resorted to lathi charge and fired tear gas shells to control the crowd.&nbsp;There were also reports of firing and burning of vehicles as violence spread to other areas of the city. Reports said&nbsp;a group of women were protesting the CAA in Uparkot area for the last two days and the police along with the Rapid Action Force reached the spot to remove the agitating women but met with opposition. Meanwhile, Internet&nbsp;has been shut for 24 hours in the district.&nbsp;

US president Donald Trump left for India with first lady Melena Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump. Before boarding the plane, he called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his friend and said he gets along very well with him. &ldquo;I look forward to being with the people of India, we will be with millions and millions of people. I get along very well with the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi), he is a friend of mine. PM told me this will be the biggest event they have ever had,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;Meanwhile Trump&rsquo;s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump said she is&nbsp;honoured&nbsp;to return to India to celebrate the &lsquo;grand friendship&rsquo; between the world&rsquo;s two largest democracies which has &lsquo;never been stronger before&rsquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The daughter of slain forest brigand Veerappan joined the Bhartiya Janata Party&nbsp;in Tamil Nadu, news agency&nbsp;ANI&nbsp;reported on Saturday. Vidya Rani was formally inducted into the saffron party by BJP general secretary Muralidhar Rao and former Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan at an event in&nbsp;Krishnagiri. Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rani told the news agency that she wants to work for the poor and underprivileged irrespective of their caste and religion. Veerappan, who evaded authorities for more than two decades, poached over 200 elephants, smuggled ivory worth hundreds of&nbsp;crores&nbsp;of rupees and killed more than 180 people before being killed in 2004.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi&nbsp;on Sunday said India looks forward to welcoming US President Donald Trump. The US president is on a visit to India from February 24 to 25, which is&nbsp;his&nbsp;first state visit&nbsp;since assuming office. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, along with a&nbsp;16-member delegation&nbsp;will travel to Ahmedabad, Agra, and Delhi during the two-day visit.&nbsp;On the first day, Trump and the First Lady will be in Gujarat, PM Modi&rsquo;s home state. They are expected to begin their tour by visiting Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. Later in the day, he will be hosted at&nbsp;Motera&rsquo;s&nbsp;Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium in a ceremony called &lsquo;Namaste Trump&rsquo;,&nbsp;similar to&nbsp;PM Modi&rsquo;s address to the Indian diaspora at the &lsquo;Howdy Modi!&rsquo; event in Houston.&nbsp;Following &lsquo;Namaste Trump&rsquo;, the US President and First Lady Melania are likely to&nbsp;visit the Taj Mahal&nbsp;Monday. On the second and final day of his visit, Trump will travel to Delhi where he is expected to wrap up issues related to trade and defence.&nbsp;

Clashes erupted in northeast Delhi&rsquo;s Jaffrabad after supporters and opposers of the contentious citizenship act pelted stones at each other-- close to a road which was blocked by women dissenters on Saturday evening.&nbsp;According to reports, a clash between pro and anti-CAA protesters took place in Maujpur&nbsp;metro station which falls in Jafarabad.&nbsp;Police resorted to firing tear gas shells at the crowd to bring the situation under control. The road outside the Jaffrabad metro station became the latest anti-CAA protest site in Delhi when about 500 women dissenters blocked it on Saturday.&nbsp;BJP's controversial leader Kapil Mishra and his supporters arrived near the Jaffrabad Metro Station at around 3 pm and had demanded the road to be opened. Security has been beefed up in the area. After&nbsp;clashes, Mishra&nbsp;gave a 3-day ultimatum to Delhi police to clear the Jafarabad&nbsp;protest site.&nbsp;

The ITC Maurya hotel on Sardar Patel Marg in Delhi has turned into a fortress as it prepares to receive the US President. Potus along with Flotus will be staying at the Grand Presidential Suite or the Chanakya Suite at the luxury hotel. Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner will also be staying at the same hotel. The Chanakya Suite spans about 4,600 sq ft, and costs a whopping Rs 8,00,000 a night. The opulent suite boasts of silk panelled walls, dark wood flooring, a huge bathroom with mother of pearl accessories, a spa and even a gym. It also has a peacock themed 12-seater private dining room, along with the living quarters. The Trumps will have valets waiting hand and foot, led by the presidential butler. The US First Couple will also be provided with their own private chef. Reports say the Chanakya suite has already been stocked up with Diet Coke and Cherry Vanilla ice-cream, two of the President's favourites. Interestingly, ITC Maurya is the only hotel in India that offers indoor air quality at par with WHO standards.

Ahead of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania's visit to Taj Mahal in Agra, the replicas of graves of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal are also being given a facelift. A Times of India report said, the Archaeological Survey of India is conducting a clay-pack treatment for the replicas of the two graves, which is expected be completed by Friday evening. This is reportedly the first time the replicas of graves have been cleaned since the emperor and his queen were buried 368 years ago. The original graves of Shahjahan and Mumtaz lie in a chamber below the crypt containing them. As part of the restoration, a coating of lime-rich clay is applied on the damaged parts of the replicas and left to dry, after which impurities are removed from the surface with a soft brush. The TOI report added, that the huge brass chandelier installed over the two graves is also being cleaned with tamarind water.

The entry and exit gates of Jaffrabad Metro station in north east Delhi were closed on Sunday morning, after more than 500 women protesters blocked the road against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. Carrying Tricolours, the women blocked road no. 66 which connects Seelampur with Maujpur and Yamuna Vihar. With heavy security deployed at the station, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said trains would not be halting at the station. These fresh protests by women come as efforts are being made to negotiate with the women protesters at Shaheen Bagh, whose agitation has resulted in massive traffic snarls along the Delhi-Noida route.

One of the interlocutors appointed by Supreme Court to mediate with Shaheen Bagh protesters, Wajahat Habibullah, has filed an affidavit in the top court on the road blockage in the area. The hearing is scheduled to be held on Monday by a two-judge bench. Wajahat Habibullah, in his affidavit, said that the protest in Shaheen Bagh against Citizenship Amendment Act is peaceful. The former bureaucrat also said that the police have blocked five points around Shaheen Bagh. SC-appointed interlocutors Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran have so far held four rounds of talks with the protesters, trying to convince them to hold the agitation at an alternative site.

After facing rout in the recently held elections, Delhi BJP chief&nbsp;Manoj Tiwari has called for penalizing politicians who use hate speeches. When asked about his colleague Kapil Mishra chanting inflammatory slogans against those who oppose the government, the BJP parliamentarian told the Indian Express that he wants those who make hate speeches to be permanently removed. Tiwari also admitted that his Parliamentary colleague Parvesh Verma calling Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal a terrorist didn&rsquo;t help the BJP and was a key reason for his party&rsquo;s loss. Although BJP managed to improve its vote share in the elections, the increase did not materialize in enough surge in seats to bring BJP to power in the national capital.&nbsp;

Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury hit out at the government for spending crores of rupees to welcome US President Donald Trump. Chowdhury on Saturday called the US president 'Mogambo', the iconic villain played by late actor Amrish Puri in the film 'Mr India', saying the Modi government is doing everything to make 'Mogambo' happy.
"What is the need to spend crore of rupees from the government's treasury? People living in slums are being forced to hide or move to make Trump happy. Is this the right behaviour? Gujarat was developed by (PM) Modi as a model for others but the poor are being exploited there. It is like we will do everything to make Mogambo happy", he said.

The call by Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad for nationwide bandh on Sunday, has been getting support from multiple political and social outfits. The Dalit leader has called for a shutdown against the Supreme Court ruling that says states were not bound to provide reservation in government jobs and quota in promotion. Issues like Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register for Citizens (NRC) and atrocities against Dalits have also been included in the bandh call. In Uttar Pradesh, Azad had the support of Shivpal Yadav of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party; while in Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav-led RJD has backed the Bharat Bandh.

A 'Trump platter', comprising signature dishes from ITC Maurya's iconic restaurant Bukhara, is likely to be laid out for US President Donald Trump during his maiden visit to India, say reports. The Bukhara restaurant, which has hosted several heads of states, including former US presidents, has not altered its menu for the last 41 years. The hotel, however, has not revealed anything about the arrangements made for Trump, including the food.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday raised questions over the funding of the committee formed to oversee various programmes during US President Donald Trump's Ahmedabad visit on February 24. Tagging a media report on Twitter, she wondered what the government is 'hiding under the guise' of the committee. She tweeted asking if the country not have the right to know which ministry gave how much money to the committee, and who are its members.

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,

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that he is praying for the early release of three former chief ministers of Jammu &amp; Kashmir from their detention and hoping that they will contribute to normalizing situation in Kashmir. In an interview to news agency IANS, Rajnath said, Kashmir has been peaceful. The situation is improving and decisions on the release of politicians will also be finalised. He said the govt has not tortured anyone and certain steps had been taken in the interests of Kashmir. Dozens of politicians, including three former chief ministers -- Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah of the National Conference (NC) and Mehbooba Mufti of the PDP were placed under preventive detention after the Centre bifurcated the state into two Union Territories on August 5 last year.

A Delhi court has rejected a plea by one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case who claimed he has mental illness and needs treatment. The plea claimed that Vinay&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;is&nbsp;suffering from "insanity", "mental illness" and "schizophrenia".&nbsp;Tihar jail authorities termed his claims as a "bundle of distorted facts" and told the court that CCTV footage established that the convict had inflicted "superficial" injuries on himself and was not suffering from any psychological disorder. The psychologist, who appeared on behalf of the jail, also told court that all convicts are fine.&nbsp;

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