Congress President Rahul Gandhi has promised universal basic income to the poor if the party is voted to power in 2019.  So, what exactly is a universal basic income?  According to the advocacy group Basic Income Earth Network, it is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all citizens on an individual basis without a requirement to work or to demonstrate willingness-to-work. The purpose of the universal basic income is to prevent or reduce poverty and increase equality among citizens. 

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has promised universal basic income to the poor if the party is voted to power in 2019. So, what exactly is a universal basic income? According to the advocacy group Basic Income Earth Network, it is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all citizens on an individual basis without a requirement to work or to demonstrate willingness-to-work. The purpose of the universal basic income is to prevent or reduce poverty and increase equality among citizens.

Indicating that a major bilateral trade deal during his visit to Delhi next week might not be on the cards, US President Donald Trump has said he is "saving the big deal" with India for later. Trump added that he "does not know" if it will be done before the presidential election in November. In an apparent dissatisfaction over US-India trade ties, Trump said, "we're not treated very well by India." But he praised PM Modi and said he is looking forward to meet him. Trump is scheduled to visit India on February 24 and 25.

Is there a rebellion brewing in the Karnataka BJP against CM Yeddiyurappa? A mystery letter has surfaced accusing the chief minister of favouring his family members and not allowing anybody else to grow. The unsigned letter has reportedly surfaced after a meeting of some BJP MLAs. BJP leaders in the state, have however, denied any sort of rift in the party. Yeddiyurappa has been under pressure from party MLAs since cabinet formation over berths to 10 MLAs who quit Congress and JDS to support the BJP.

After girls at an institute in Bhuj were forced to strip to check if they were menstruating before having their meals, there is another shocker from a seer in Gujarat. Swami&nbsp;Krushnaswarup&nbsp;Dasji, the&nbsp;seer who is associated with the Swaminarayan Bhuj Mandir sect, whose followers run the Bhuj institute has said that menstruating women who cook food for their husbands will be reborn as dogs while men consuming food prepared by women having periods will reborn as bullocks. He invoked &lsquo;Shastras&rsquo; to justify his claims. He also called women &lsquo;careless&rsquo; about their menstruation periods and warned men to learn cooking.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;bypolls&nbsp;to panchayats scheduled from March 5 in Jammu and Kashmir has been postponed due to security reasons, J&amp;K Chief Electoral Officer Shailendra Kumar said on Tuesday. By-election to over 12,500 panchayat seats in Jammu and Kashmir was scheduled to be held in eight phases from March 5. Stating that&nbsp;bypoll&nbsp;was&nbsp;postponed for three weeks, Kumar said this step was taken after inputs given to him by the home department over security issues. The eight-phase poll was earlier scheduled to be held from March 5 to March 20 on a party basis.&nbsp;&nbsp;

More than a 100 people in a Hyderabad neighbourhood have been asked by the Unique Identification Authority of India to verify their Aadhaar enrolment documents. The authority has threatened to cancel their 12-digit identity number if hey failed to do so, The Hindustan Times has reported. The Aadhaar authority has said that its Hyderabad office received reports from the state police that 127 people obtained Aadhaar &ldquo;on false pretences&rdquo; and were illegal immigrants.

While welcoming the SC decision to include women in Indian army's combat roles, Western command chief Lt Gen RP&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;has said that the time was not right for women in combat roles. He said, "We welcome the SC ruling to give women officers permanent commission."
At present, women officers are inducted in short services for 14 years and are allowed only in legal educational wings as permanent officers.
&ldquo;It is an evolutionary process. Women officers are already into other wings related to combat if not direct. We hope in the future they will get into more roles and contribute to the Indian Army,&rdquo; he said.

The Supreme Court has told former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra&nbsp;Fadnavis&nbsp;to face trial for allegedly failing to furnish details of pending criminal cases in his 2014 poll affidavit, as the judgement on his election matter could have wider ramifications on the candidates in the electoral fray.&nbsp;Fadnavis&nbsp;insisted to review the verdict in this matter. A SC bench after hearing the arguments on the matter reserved its verdict on its 2019 judgement asking&nbsp;Fadnavis&nbsp;to face trial. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for&nbsp;Fadnavis, contended before the top court this matter has the potential for far reaching consequences on other candidates in the poll fray and the apex court needs to re-examine its decision.

Union minister Piyush Goyal has hit out at former Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram after former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria made revelations on 26/11 terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab's Hindu disguise. Piyush Goyal also slammed the top cop and asked why didn't he share the information when he was the police commissioner.&nbsp;Piyush Goyal's statements came after Rakesh Maria, in his book 'Let Me Say It Now', indicated that the Lashkar-e-Taiba&nbsp;wanted to pass off the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack as a case of Hindu terrorism.&nbsp;

A batch of about 200 people, who were among the over 400 quarantined at an ITBP facility in Delhi after being evacuated from coronavirus-hit Wuhan, were discharged on Monday. The first batch also includes the seven Maldivian nationals who were also airlifted from Wuhan. The centre housed a total of 406 people. The remaining&nbsp;will be released on Tuesday and in the subsequent days. A total of 650 people were brought back from Wuhan in China on February 1 and 2 in two Air India aircraft after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China.&nbsp;While 406 of these were sent to the ITBP facility, the rest were quarantined at an Army centre in Haryana's Manesar.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav&nbsp;Thackeray on Tuesday said his government will not hand over the probe in the Koregaon-Bhima violence case to the Centre.&nbsp;The violence was a result of the alleged inflammatory&nbsp;speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune on December 31, 2017. Thackeray's decision comes after the Maharashtra government had recently okayed the handing over of investigation into the Elgar Parishad case to&nbsp;the National Investigation Agency. Thackeray&nbsp;tweeted on Tuesday,&nbsp;"Elgar and Koregaon-Bhima are two separate topics. The&nbsp;issue facing my Dalit brothers is about Koregaon-Bhima and I&nbsp;will not give it to the Centre. I want to make it clear that&nbsp;there will be no injustice to Dalit brothers". The timing of Thackeray's statement is also interesting as Shiv Sena's ally -&nbsp;NCP chief Sharad Pawar had publicly expressed&nbsp;his unhappiness over Thackeray's decision to hand over the&nbsp;Elgar Parishad probe to the NIA.

NCP&nbsp;chief Sharad&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;on Tuesday questioned the role of Pune Police and senior officials in the&nbsp;Elgar Parishad case, hinting at a&nbsp;leak. Pawar&nbsp;questioned how&nbsp;the central government got information about an internal meeting on setting up an SIT team, held between Maharashtra&nbsp;deputy CM&nbsp;Ajit Pawar and state home minister Anil Deshmukh. Pawar&nbsp;also said that the Maharashtra government should take the incident seriously and find out how the details of the meeting&nbsp;reached the Centre. On January 25, the Centre issued notification on taking over the&nbsp;Elgar Parishad probe, hours after Pawar and Deshmukh held a meeting with police and home officers on forming the SIT.

The Delhi Police has filed a charge sheet in a Delhi court in a case related to violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act at New Friends Colony on December 15 last year and has named Sharjeel Imam as an instigator.&nbsp;The police said it has attached CCTV footage, call detail records and statements of over 100 witnesses as evidence in the charge sheet placed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur.&nbsp;Following the charge sheet,&nbsp;the Delhi court has sent Sharjeel Imam to judicial custody till March 3.&nbsp;Protesters had torched vehicles as they clashed with police in New Friends Colony near Jamia Millia Islamia during the demonstration against the CAA on December 15, leaving nearly 60 people injured.&nbsp;

Amid a rift in the Congress,&nbsp;Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath&nbsp;said he was not angry with senior party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia who has threatened to take to the streets if promises made in the manifesto were not fulfilled.&nbsp;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t get angry with anyone. When I don&rsquo;t get angry with (senior&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;leader and former CM) Shivraj Singh, how will I get angry with Scindia,&rdquo; Nath said.&nbsp;

A senior Supreme Court lawyer has written to the Ram temple trust on behalf of a group of Muslims in Ayodhya, asking that five acres of land around the demolished Babri Masjid where a graveyard is situated be spared for the sake of 'sanatan dharma'.&nbsp;The letter, written by advocate MR Shamshad, is addressed to all 10 trustees of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra.&nbsp;Shamshad said according to Muslims, there is a graveyard known as 'Ganj Shahidan' around the demolished Babri Masjid where 75 Muslims who lost their lives in the 1885 riots in Ayodhya were buried. The letter states,&nbsp;"In view of religious scriptures of 'sanatan dharma', you need to consider whether the temple of Lord Ram can have foundation on the graves of Muslims? This is a decision that the management of the trust has to take".

Veteran Bengali actor, and Former TMC MP, Tapas Pal has passed&nbsp;away. The 61-year-old actor&nbsp;who had been&nbsp;suffering&nbsp;from heart ailments breathed his last at 4 am on Tuesday.
Pal who was returning after meeting his daughter was rushed to a&nbsp;Juhu&nbsp;hospital after he complained of chest pain where he passed away.
Tapas Pal rose to fame with his debut film Dadar Kirti in 1980. Tapas&nbsp;was one&nbsp;of the first actors to join&nbsp;TMC with his star power in the 2009 Bengal elections.
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Union Minister Smriti&nbsp;Irani&nbsp;known for her barbed attacks on Congress leaders, took on Congress leader&nbsp;Rahul&nbsp;Gandhi&nbsp;for his comment on Twitter hailing the SC ruling clearing&nbsp;permanent commission for women in the army.&nbsp;Rahul Gandhi had tweeted on Monday, "The Govt disrespected every Indian woman, by arguing in the SC that women Army officers didn't deserve command posts or permanent service because they were inferior to men. I congratulate India's women for standing up &amp; proving the BJP Govt wrong". Irani&nbsp;immediately hit back saying, "Begani shaadi mein Abdullah deewana" and that it was the Congress government which had been "twiddling its thumbs". She also advised Gandhi to make his team check details before he tweeted.

After his public ousting from JD(U) over differences with party chief Nitish&nbsp;Kumar,&nbsp;political strategist Prashant Kishor&nbsp;has cleared the air- he holds no grudge against Nitish Kumar. Citing ideological differences as one of the reasons behind the rift that drove him out of the party, Kishor&nbsp;said that Gandhi loving JD(U)'s alliance with Godse loving BJP is an impossible union he does not support. "Nitish ji has always said- Gandhi, JP and Lohia- these three people and their teachings we cannot forgo. When you are going around Bihar preaching Gandhi, how can you stand with those who follow the ideology of Godse? Both cannot happen together," said Kishor.&nbsp;

Amid high-profile inaugurations, PM Modi hosted a special guest during his one-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi, on February 16. The PM met Mangal Kewat, the rickshaw puller who had sent his daughter's wedding invite to the PM. News agency ANI reported that PM Modi enquired about the health and well-being of Mangal Kewat and his family and also commended him on his contribution to the Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan. Inspired by PM Modi, Mangal Kewat has taken to cleaning the Ganga banks in his village.

Maharshtra&nbsp;CM and Shiv&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;supremo&nbsp;Uddhav&nbsp;Thackeray on Tuesday sang a different tune from his allies Congress and NCP&nbsp;on the issue of CAA, NRC and NPR. While Thackeray maintained that there was no issue with CAA, he insisted that Centre has not talked about implementing&nbsp;NRC&nbsp;yet. He further added that the&nbsp;NPR&nbsp;exercise is only Census that is conducted every 10 years and there should be no issue with that. Both Congress and NCP&nbsp;have spoken strongly against CAA, NRC&nbsp;and NPR.

Ahead of the crucial meeting with terror watchdog FATF, Pakistan had on Monday claimed that Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Masood Azhar has gone missing. However, intel inputs have revealed Masood Azhar has been taken to a secure location by the Pakistan Army and ISI, India Today has reported quoting intelligence sources. Masood Azhar has been reportedly kept at the Jaish headquarters on the Bahawalpur-Karachi road under heavy security presence. The report, quoting sources, also added that Masood Azhar had been frequenting his houses in Bahawalpur and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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