The Election Commission on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to BJP MP Parvesh Verma for allegedly calling Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a "terrorist".&nbsp;He has been given time till 5 pm on Friday to respond.&nbsp;The notice came on a day when he had already barred from campaigning for four days for making controversial remarks at another poll meet.&nbsp;The EC has also ordered his removal from the BJP's list of star campaigners.

The Election Commission on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to BJP MP Parvesh Verma for allegedly calling Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a "terrorist". He has been given time till 5 pm on Friday to respond. The notice came on a day when he had already barred from campaigning for four days for making controversial remarks at another poll meet. The EC has also ordered his removal from the BJP's list of star campaigners.

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.

Pakistan has been handed out an 8-point list by global watchdog FATF that Prime Minister Imran Khan&rsquo;s government will have to deliver within the next four months. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force, which has retained Pakistan on its &lsquo;grey list&rsquo;, has warned Islamabad that it could end up on the blacklist when it makes a fresh assessment in four months.&nbsp;As part of the 8 points, Pakistan has been told to demonstrate that his security agencies detect and probe the &lsquo;widest range&rsquo; of terror financing and to implement &lsquo;targeted financial sanctions&rsquo; against all UN designated terrorists and prohibiting their access to funding.&nbsp;

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader&nbsp;Waris&nbsp;Pathan has issued a clarification saying his '15 crores can outweigh the 100' remark has been quoted 'out of context' and that neither he nor his party supports anything that 'creates a divide between people'. A video of the remark made during an anti-CAA rally in Karnataka&rsquo;s Kalaburagi region on February 15 went viral on Thursday.&nbsp;In a media statement, Pathan wrote, "I am a proud Indian and respect the plurality of this country. But yes, I am angry just like many other Indians, who believe in the Constitution of this country".

US President Donald Trump and wife Melania Trump, who are visiting India on February 24-25, will be accompanied by daughter Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, according to multiple reports. Ivanka and Jared are advisers to the US President. The four are scheduled to travel to Ahmedabad and then to Agra, where they will see the Taj Mahal, before arriving in New Delhi. Ivanka had visited Hyderabad in November 2017.&nbsp;The first lady, Melania Trump, is also scheduled to visit a Delhi government school to attend a &lsquo;happiness class&rsquo;, where she will be likely received by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.&nbsp;

After mediators appointed by the Supreme Court to hold a dialogue with&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh protesters visited a road blocked by the police, UP cops on Friday opened an alternate route between Noida and Faridabad to ease traffic congestion. However, the relief was short-lived as cops once again put barricades back on the road. The route connects Noida and Faridabad via Delhi's Kalindi Kunj and hence skirts&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh, where protesters have been camping for over two months against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. Restrictions have been imposed on the Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh stretch and Okhla underpass, which were closed on December 15 last year due to ongoing protests over&nbsp;the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizen.&nbsp;

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;

US President Donald Trump has made another claim, saying he has been told by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that 10 million people are expected to turn up along a 22-km-long road in Ahmedabad. Trump&rsquo;s claim at a packed re-election campaign rally in Colorado comes despite the&nbsp;Ahmedabad municipal body estimating much lower figures of the crowd.&nbsp; PM Modi and President Trump will travel on a 22-km-long road on February 24. Earlier this week,&nbsp;Donald Trump had put the number at seven million. To put the number in perspective, the population of Ahmedabad, which is the biggest city in Gujarat, is between 7 to 8&nbsp;million.&nbsp;

In some respite&nbsp;for the people of Delhi-NCR, the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday reopened a key route that links Noida with Delhi&rsquo;s Kalindi Kunj&nbsp;to ease congestion due to the ongoing anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh. The UP Police reopened the road leading from Kalindi Kunj towards Faridabad- the&nbsp;stretch from Noida's Mahamaya flyover to Delhi.&nbsp;The Shaheen Bagh-Kalindi Kunj road in southeast Delhi has been blocked since December 15 last year, due to ongoing protests against CAA&nbsp;and NRC.&nbsp;The road connecting Noida with Delhi, however, still remains closed.

The Centre plans to send 40 ministers to Jammu &amp;&thinsp;Kashmir in April for another outreach following the watering down of the Article 370 that stripped the erstwhile state of its special status in August, The Hindustan Times reported. The second such outreach since January after Parliament&rsquo;s Budget session ends in April is being planned as the Centre and the Jammu &amp; Kashmir administration are&nbsp;finalising&nbsp;a new domicile policy for the region to protect employment for locals and restrict the sale of land to outsiders, the report said quoting sources. There have been concerns over land rights and jobs in Jammu &amp; Kashmir following the end to the special status that ensured non-residents could not buy land or get government jobs in the erstwhile state.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Leaving the&nbsp;organisers&nbsp;of an event to protest over the CAA red-faced, a young woman raised pro Pakistan&nbsp;slogan in the presence of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who denounced her and stopped her from doing so.&nbsp;The woman, identified as Amulya Leona, asked people to shout pro Pakistan slogans thrice after the&nbsp;organisers&nbsp;invited her to address the gathering soon after Owaisi came on the stage. A baffled Owaisi rushed to snatch the mike from her and was joined by others who tried to remove her from the stage. But the woman was adamant and raised the slogan again&nbsp;repeatedly. She has been booked for sedition.&nbsp;&nbsp;

A political war of words has broken out over the attack on Dalit men in Rajasthan with the BJP targeting Rahul Gandhi for his comments on the horrifying video. After the video of two Dalit men being thrashed went viral, Rahul Gandhi tweeted, urging the state government to take immediate action to bring the perpetrators of the shocking crime to justice. Reminding Rahul Gandhi who is at the helm of affairs in Rajasthan, BJP spokesperson Amit Malviya said crimes against Dalits and women has shot up in Rajasthan.

Refuting the charge that she appeases Muslims, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said her principle is to &lsquo;appease humanity. In her address at a function celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of Bharat Sevashram Sangha founder Swami&nbsp;anavananda, Banerjee said she would like to say today that she appeases humanity. Without naming the BJP, Banerjee made a veiled attack at the saffron outfit, saying it pains her me when she sees there are those trying to spread a strange idea of a new Hindu religion.

Second EC notice Parvesh Verma, for calling Kejriwal a 'terrorist'

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