Tributes poured in for former Defence Minister George Fernandes who passed away on Tuesday morning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Fernandes the frank and fearless politician. Home minister Rajnath Singh tweeted that as a trade union leader Fernandes fought for the rights of the poor. Several other political leaders and commentators paid their tributes to the fighter that was George Fernandes. His last rites will be performed on Wednesday.

Congress leader Milind Deora's praise of Arvind Kejriwal for his third consecutive victory in the recently held Delhi assembly elections may not have gone down well with some of his party colleagues. Tweeting a video of Arvind Kejriwal, Milind Deora said AAP government in Delhi managed to double its revenues to ₹60,000 crore and maintained a revenue surplus over the last five years. Kejriwal, who took oath as Delhi Chief Minister on Sunday, was also quick to retweet the video. But senior party leader Ajay Maken blasted Deora by asking him 'leave Congress' and not propagate 'half-baked facts'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Arvind Kejriwal on taking oath as Delhi chief minister for the third successive term and extended him best wishes. Responding to Modi's tweet, Kejriwal said he wished the Prime Minister could have attended the ceremony. He added, that they must now work together towards making Delhi a city of pride for all Indians. During his address after the oath-taking, Kejriwal said he had invited Modi to the event. But the PM was on a daylong visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and couldn't attend.

All 406 people, housed at quarantine facility in Delhi after being brought back from Wuhan in China, tested negative for coronavirus in the final test, PTI&thinsp;reported on Sunday. They will be discharged in phased manner from Monday.&nbsp;The final samples of all the people quarantined at the Indo Tibetan Border Police facility were collected on Friday. Their samples were tested at least twice earlier and were found to be negative.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Two CCTV videos from the Jamia&nbsp;Millia&nbsp;University library from the day of police crackdown in campus emerged on Sunday.&nbsp;While one video, circulated by a twitter handle, shows security forces using batons on the people sitting inside the library, another, sent released by news wire ANI, shows a group of at least 50 people, who are allegedly protesters, streaming inside, before some of them barricaded the door with huge tables. One of the people&nbsp;purportedly&nbsp;seen with a stone in his hand. The Delhi police had faced severe criticism after they&nbsp;allegedly entered&nbsp;the campus without permission and beat up students in the library on December 15, last year. Meanwhile, Delhi Police Crime Branch will investigate both the videos. &nbsp;

Hundreds of women protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Shaheen Bagh&nbsp;stopped their march to Union home minister Amit Shah's house,&nbsp;after being assured of a proper appointment with him. The women started the march in the afternoon, hoping for a dialogue with the Home Minister on the contentious citizenship law.&nbsp;They did not have an appointment or the permission for a protest march from the police. The police stopped the match midway and told the protesters&nbsp;that their application for a meeting has been sent to the home minister.&nbsp;Shaheen Bagh has been the epicentre of the protests against the citizenship law for the last two months.

The Delhi Police on Sunday denied permission to anti-citizenship law protesters at Shaheen Bagh to meet Home Minister&nbsp;Amit Shah. Delhi Police had asked for details of the delegation to facilitate their meeting with the Home Minister, but demonstrators said they all wanted to go. News agency ANI&nbsp;reported quoting Delhi police that Amit&nbsp;Shah's home has been barricaded.&nbsp;A section of Shaheen Bagh protesters said they were ready to meet Amit Shah to raise their concerns but added that the onus was on the government to call them for talks. However, Home Ministry officials said no request has come for an appointment.

Speaking at the Ramlila Maidan after taking oath, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said, the victory was not his win, but the victory of every Delhiite, of every family. He said in the last 5 years, his govt's only effort has been to bring happiness and relief to every Delhi citizen. Kejriwal said, elections are over, and it doesn't matter who Delhiites voted for, Congress or the BJP, he will work for everyone, be it from any party, any religion, caste or strata of society.

Amidst the ongoing nationwide protest against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi&nbsp;Sunday reiterated that his government stands by the decision despite all pressure.&nbsp; Modi said while addressing a public meeting in Varanasi&nbsp;that for years, India had been waiting for decisions like repealing&nbsp;Article 370&nbsp;and the introduction of CAA,&nbsp;and these decisions were necessary in the interest of the country.&nbsp;

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday called on the Delhi police to remain calm, despite 'provocation'.&nbsp;Stating that the Delhi Police should be prepared to deal with miscreants, Shah said that, despite all' anger and provocation', police should remain calm. Shah&rsquo;s comments came hours after&nbsp;a&nbsp;new CCTV footage&nbsp;emerged showing the security forces entering&nbsp;Jamia Millia Islamia&nbsp;library and beating students to the pulp.

Smriti Irani who's known to be active on Instagram may have landed her self in soup over her latest culinary conquests. Irani on Wednesday shared a step by step recipe of egg fried rice on her Instagram. The results look palatable, but have left many twitter users wondering why eggs were not a part of mid day meals in BJP-ruled states. Several people on social media called her out for using eggs even as her party continued to oppose its inclusion in mid-day meals.

Speaking in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the centre will hand over the 67-acre land acquired in Ayodhya to the newly formed Ram Temple trust, tasked to oversee the construction of the mandir at Ram's birth site. The Centre had acquired 67 acres of land, around what was earlier known as 'the disputed site' in Ayodhya. The SC had directed that this land stays with the government until the resolution of the dispute. &ldquo;Government has taken another big decision related to the Ram Temple (in Ayodhya). The 67-acre land acquired under the Ayodhya law will be transferred in its entirety to the newly formed Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. The grandeur and divinity of the Temple built on this big piece of land will increase,&rdquo; PM said.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday shared a video purportedly showing Jamia students being beaten up by police and said if no action is taken, the government's intentions would stand exposed. She also accused the Home Minister and the Delhi Police of "lying" that Jamia students were not beaten up inside the library. The Delhi Police crime branch has said the video is being investigated as part of their ongoing probe.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;inaugurated and laid&nbsp;the foundation stone for developmental projects worth more than Rs 1,254&nbsp;crore at his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Sunday.
The Prime Minister also flagged off the Kashi Mahakaal Express via a video link, the train will link Varanasi with Ujjain and Omkareshwar.
PM also unveiled a 63-feet statue of Pandit&nbsp;Deen Dayal Upadhyay in Varanasi&nbsp;along with a 430-bed super speciality hospital and a 74-bed psychiatric hospital at the Benaras Hindu University.

A new CCTV video of the December 15 crackdown on the campus, released by the Jamia Coordination Committee, shows Delhi Police personnel, in riot gear, entering the hall and beating up students who were studying with lathis. In the video, students can be seen sitting in the reading hall as the Delhi Police storms in and starts hitting them with batons and damaging property. The Jamia Coordination Committee, a group comprising students and alumni of the university has issued a statement, saying it shows how state-sponsored terrorists are playing the game of brutality on the students of Jamia who were preparing for their examinations. Reacting to the new footage, Delhi Police said the case has already been transferred to the Crime Branch and the video is being probed.

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal took oath as Delhi's chief minister, for a third consecutive term. All six AAP ministers -- Manish Sisodia, Satendra Jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain, Rajendra Pal Gautam -- in the previous Delhi Cabinet also took oath. Hundreds gathered for Kejriwal's&nbsp;swearing in event.&nbsp;The event is 'open to public' but didn't have any&nbsp;state CMs&nbsp;or political heavyweights. Around 50 people from different walks of life who are 'Delhi ke Nirmata' and contributed to the development of the city during the last five years also shared the stage with Kejriwal.&nbsp;The AAP swept the Delhi assembly elections, winning 62 of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly.

'Kem Chho Trump', the mega event slated for Donald Trump in Gujarat, will now be called 'Namaste, President Trump'. Reports say the Centre decided to change the event's name, have a national theme instead of a regional one. Gujarat government officials have confirmed the renaming of the event as per the Centre's directions. Trump and First Lady Melania are scheduled to visit Ahmedabad and New Delhi on February 24 and 25.

Protesters at Shaheen Bagh will march to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's residence today with a charter of demands, the biggest one being, the revoking the Citizenship Amendment Act. The protesters say they will not be sending any delegation to meet the home minister, but rather "every person will be part of the delegation". Reports quoting sources say, the Home Ministry hasn't received any request for a meeting. Shaheen bagh has been the epicentre of the anti-CAA protests in the capital since the 15th of December.

At least four children in the age group of 10 to 12 years were charred to death after a school van, they were travelling in, caught fire in Punjab's&nbsp;Sangrur. Eight children were safely taken out by people working in nearby fields after locals spotted fire in the van. The children were going back home from the school when their van caught fire on the&nbsp;Longowal-Sidsamachar&nbsp;road. Two out of four deceased children belonged to a single-family. The van reportedly had the capacity to carry only eight children.&nbsp;

Bharatiya&nbsp;Janata Party&rsquo;s controversial Bengal president&nbsp;Dilip&nbsp;Ghosh on Saturday said that illiterate women in burqas sitting with babies on their laps and eating biryani purchased with foreign funds are carrying out protests at Delhi&rsquo;s&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh and Kolkata&rsquo;s Park Circus. His statement comes after&nbsp;Union home minister Amit Shah&nbsp;admitted that it was possible that provocative statements made by BJP leaders could have contributed to the party&rsquo;s massive defeat in the Delhi assembly elections.&nbsp;

The Congress on Saturday disagreed with Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray&rsquo;s decision to let the National Investigation Agency take over the probe into the Bhima Koregaon case from the state police. Earlier, Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;too had criticized the move.&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;had said it was not right on the part of the Centre to hand over the probe into the case, which was with the Pune police, to the NIA as law and order was a state subject.&nbsp; "In the Elgar case, Uddhav Thackeray has taken suo motu decision. This is not fair because we are partners and such things should be discussed- what is going to have a repercussion. You may have power but one should use it judiciously. Anyway, now our ministers are there, they'll fight", said Congress leader&nbsp;Mallikarjun Kharge.

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