The peers in the Upper House of the UK Parliament held a debate over the impact of India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The House of Lords sought representations by the UK government to counterparts in India over arising concerns around minority rights. The debate in London on Tuesday evening called on the UK government to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a review of the CAA and its effects on Indian society. The UK government, in response, said it has been closely monitoring the situation as the act has "clearly been divisive in India" and there are some concerns over its full impact.

A day ahead of the signing of a landmark peace deal between the US and the Taliban, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Friday travelled to Kabul, news agency PTI reported. He conveyed India's unstinted support to a peaceful and stable Afghanistan. The foreign secretary held talks with acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Haroon Chakhansuri and apprised him about India's views on the peace deal as well as its commitment for all-round development of the country. India has been a key stakeholder in the peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan.
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Left leader Kanhaiya&nbsp;Kumar&nbsp;on Friday thanked Delhi govt for giving nod to try him in 2016 JNU sedition case. Thanking the Kejriwal&nbsp;govt, Kanhaiya&nbsp;tweeted that&nbsp;there should be speedy trial by a fast-track court. He added that a decision should come from the courts and not from a trial in a TV studio. Speaking to NDTV&nbsp;Kanhaiya&nbsp;also questioned the timing of the move linking it to the response to his&nbsp;Bihar rallies ahead of the state&nbsp;elections&nbsp;later this year.

The Congress&nbsp;on Friday dubbed the Eastern Zonal Council meeting as "Samjhauta baithak" between bitter political rivals Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Many are wondering why Banerjee reached Bhubaneswar on Tuesday while the EZC meeting was scheduled for Friday.&nbsp;Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury&nbsp;said, "This is nothing but a 'Samjhautha baithak&nbsp;where they have a reached a consensus of live and let live, eat and let's eat". He went on to question why Mamata&nbsp;attended a meeting where they were no discussion on CAA&nbsp;or the Delhi violence.&nbsp;Banerjee, however, maintains that she raised the issue of violence in Delhi in the meeting. It is important to note that&nbsp;Mamata's decision to attend the meeting comes after she refused to attend a meeting of non-BJP parties called by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.

In a major breakthrough, the NIA&nbsp;has arrested an operative of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed for his alleged involvement in the Pulwama terror attack last year.&nbsp;PTI&nbsp;quoted officials as saying that 22-year-old Shakir Bashir Magrey, a furniture shop owner in Pulwama, had provided shelter and other logistical assistance to suicide-bomber Adil Ahmad Dar. According to the NIA, Magrey&nbsp;on several occasions collected and delivered arms, ammunition, cash and explosive materials to JeM terrorists, including those involved in the Pulwama attack.&nbsp;Magrey&nbsp;has&nbsp;also&nbsp;revealed that he had harboured Dar and Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Umar Farooq in his house from late 2018 till the attack in February 2019, and assisted them in the preparation of the IED. He&nbsp;also helped in modifying the Maruti Eeco car and fitting the&nbsp;IED&nbsp;to it.&nbsp;Magrey was produced before the NIA Special Court at Jammu on Friday and has been remanded to 15 days in NIA custody for his detailed interrogation.

Union Home Minister Amit&nbsp;Shah on Friday accused opposition parties of spreading misinformation about the new citizenship law and inciting&nbsp;communal riots. Speaking at a rally in Bhubaneswar, Shah said people should come out and ask those fomenting&nbsp;trouble to explain which clause of the Citizenship (Amendment)&nbsp;Act talked about snatching citizenship of people. He went on to add that&nbsp;no Indian Muslim will lose citizenship because&nbsp;of the new law.

The Delhi government on Friday allowed the Delhi Police to go ahead with prosecuting&nbsp;JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case. The nod comes just days after&nbsp;a court directed the police to send a reminder to the Delhi government on its application for prosecution sanction which is pending with the home department since January 14. The police had filed a charge sheet in January 2019 against Kumar and others, including former Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, saying they were leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised on the campus during an event on February 9, 2016. The court had, however, asked the police to take requisite sanction for prosecution.

Bitter enemies, breaking bread together. Home Minister Amit Shah and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who have been severe critics of each other, had lunch together on Friday at Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's residence. The lunch, during which Shah and Banerjee sat facing each other across the table, was hosted by Patnaik after the Eastern Zonal Council meeting in Bhubaneswar.&nbsp;Here, they were also joined by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar&nbsp;and&nbsp;Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. In a tweet, Patnaik said, "Such a pleasure having the company of Union Home Minister&nbsp;Amit Shah, my colleagues Mamata&nbsp;Banerjee, Nitish&nbsp;Kumar &amp; Union Minister Dharmendra&nbsp;Pradhan&nbsp;at Naveen Niwas. Had a wonderfully interactive time over some home-cooked Odia delicacies".

A total of 123 FIRs have been registered and 630 people have been either arrested or detained so far in connection with the northeast Delhi communal violence. This as the death toll in Delhi's communal violence went up to 42 with over 250 people injured.&nbsp;The Delhi Police also confirmed that forensic science laboratory teams have been called in and the crime scenes are still being evaluated.&nbsp;

One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case - Pawan Kumar Gupta has moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with the President. His lawyer AP Singh&nbsp;told the court that the Gupta didn't&nbsp;know about the seven-day deadline&nbsp;to avail his legal options and therefore he&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;file either a curative petition or a mercy petition so far.

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday hit out at the Congress for reminding his party BJP of what its&nbsp;rajdharma&nbsp;should be.&nbsp;Addressing the media, he said a delegation of Congress that met President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday is trying to remind others about&nbsp;rajdharma, but the party should clarify why it changes its position on issues.&nbsp;

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind&nbsp;Kejriwal&nbsp;announced a slew of steps the govt is taking for the relief and rehabilitation of the people affected by violence in the northeast areas of the capital. People whose houses have been completely damaged are being shifted to the govt's&nbsp;night shelters and community centres. The state govt has also announced an interim compensation of Rs 25,000 for such people. They will be compensated further after assessment. Kejriwal&nbsp;also informed the press that 18 sub-divisional magistrates have been appointed&nbsp;along with night magistrates. Delh&nbsp;govt is also distributing food on a large-scale in the riot-affected areas.&nbsp;

The months of March, April and May are "likely to be warmer than normal" over northwest, west, central and parts of south India, the India Meteorological Department has said.&nbsp;Above normal heat-wave conditions are also likely in the core heat wave zone during the season. The core heat wave zone covers the states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana and parts of Maharashtra and coastal Andhra Pradesh.

The Delhi High Court has sought the response of the Centre, the Delhi government and the police on multiple pleas seeking FIRs against political figures, including Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, for allegedly making hate speeches. One of the pleas by a lawyers' group has sought lodging of FIRs against the Congress leaders as well as Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi and former AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan for allegedly making hate speeches. The High Court&nbsp;bench has also issued notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the police on three separate pleas which have sought FIRs against three BJP leaders for alleged hate speeches by them. All the matters have been listed by the court for further hearing on April 13.

Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi&nbsp;government has proposed to extend five per cent reservation to&nbsp;Muslims in educational institutes, Minority Affairs Minister&nbsp;Nawab Malik announced on Friday.&nbsp;The state government will ensure that a legislation to&nbsp;this effect is passed soon, the minister informed the State&nbsp;Legislative Council. He also assured the House of taking "appropriate&nbsp;action" in this regard before the beginning of admissions in schools.

Prohibitory orders were relaxed for 10 hours view of improvements in the ground situation on Friday in the riot-hit northeast districts which claimed 42 lives and left over 200 injured.&nbsp; The decision to relax Section 144 of the&nbsp;CrPC&nbsp;was taken a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah was informed about the law and order situation in a review meeting with top police officers. The restrictions have been relaxed from 8 a.m. in the morning.&nbsp;One more death was reported at GTB on Friday, taking the toll to 42. Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Anil&nbsp;Baijal is scheduled to visit the violence-affected areas.&nbsp;

The Centre on Friday appointed senior IPS officer SN Srivastava as the new Commissioner of Delhi Police. The 1985-batch officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory cadre, Srivastava will replace incumbent&nbsp;Amulya&nbsp;Patnaik, whose one month extension to the post will end on Saturday. Srivastava, is presently the Special Commissioner, and he has been given additional charge of Delhi Police Commissioner till March 1, 2020 and until further orders. Earlier, Srivastava headed the Delhi Police Special Cell and was instrumental in the arrest of scores of Indian Mujahideen operatives.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

With forensic science experts in tow, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police on Friday searched the residence of suspended AAP councilor Tahir Hussian who remains on the run. A forensic team collected samples from the spot as police have begun probe to look into the murder of IB official Ankit Sharma, whose body was found in a drain. Hussian has been booked for Sharma&rsquo;s murder after his family lodged a complaint, accusing the suspended AAP&nbsp;councillor&nbsp;of instigating mobs in Chand Bagh.&nbsp;&nbsp;

BJP's&nbsp;former ally Shiv Sena has slammed the Home Minister Amit&nbsp;Shah&nbsp;over the riots in the national capital. In an article titled 'Where is the Home Minister?' in it's mouthpieace&nbsp;'Saamna', the Sena&nbsp;said that Amit Shah who had taken out a lot time during&nbsp;Delhi elections for door-to-door campaigning was nowhere to seen during the riots. When Home Minister was welcoming the US President in Ahmedabad, an IB officer was killed in Delhi, the editorial added. Shiv&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;also criticised Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi for speaking on the violence after three days.&nbsp;

Narendra Mehta, the&nbsp;Bharatiya&nbsp;Janata Party&rsquo;s former MLA from Mira Road was booked on charges of alleged rape levelled by a BJP woman municipal corporator.&nbsp;A close aide of Devendra&nbsp;Fadnavis, Mehta has been booked for offences of sexual assault by the&nbsp;Navghar&nbsp;Police after the complaint by his party female colleague and a civic lawmaker. Besides IPC provisions, he has also been slapped with charges under&nbsp;Attrocities&nbsp;Act following the complaint.&nbsp;There was huge speculation in political circles after Mehta suddenly quit all party posts a couple of days ago, followed by certain videos which went viral on social media networks.

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