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Jamat-e-Islami president Hamed Khan said the national flag will be hoisted at Charminar on the midnight of January 25, and another protest held on the death anniversary of Gandhi.
"If the V-C has any shame left in him, he should resign immediately. The V-C is the parent of university students. He should have protected them," Owaisi added.
From a Group of Ministers led by Home Minister Amit Shah approving Expression of Interest for debt-ridden Air India to the release of trailer of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's film on Kashmiri Pandits, here are the top headlines this evening.
The Supreme Court Bar Association issued a statement condemning the violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where a group of masked persons barged inside the campus with rods and sledgehammers, thrashing students and teachers.
December 2012 gangrape case: After the mercy and review petitions were rejected, the counsel of the convicts is left with only one option - to file a curative petition in the top court.
On July 9, 2018, the Supreme Court dismissed the pleas of three of the convicts seeking review of its 2017 judgment, upholding the capital punishment given to them by the Delhi High Court.
The JNU student union has accused RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) volunteers of being behind the attack while the ABVP has alleged that Left activists were involved in the attack.
On Sunday evening, masked men went on a rampage inside Jawaharlal Nehru University, leaving 31 students, two teachers and two guards injured in the mayhem that lasted close to three hours. Delhi police are yet to make a single arrest in the case.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said the police had booked "the girl who was injured in the violence", instead of those who "made an attempt to kill" her.
The West Bengal Chief Minister, who has been one of the most vocal critics of CAA, NRC, said, "I am your 'pehradar' (custodian), if anyone comes to take away your rights, he will have to do it over my dead body."
"I was there along with other office party office bearers to receive them. Our party is against the CAA and against police brutality meted out to the peaceful protestors," Congress city president Mukesh Singh Chauhan said.
Weather Forecast and Temperature Today Live Update: "The minimum temperature recorded at 8.30 am at 11.6 degrees Celsius, five notches above normal," a MeT official told news agency PTI. The humidity level was recorded at 95 per cent and traces of rainfall were recorded overnight.
Kerala Lottery Today Results: The first prize winner is ticket number SJ-420180 which bagged a whopping Rs 70 lakh. The second prize was drawn by ticket number SA-609977 which bagged Rs 5 lakh.
The weatherman has predicted light rains and thundershowers towards evening in Delhi. In Punjab and Haryana, rains continued to lash most parts of the two states even as the minimum temperature settled several degrees above normal.
Mission Gaganyaan from ISRO: The menu for the astronauts includes egg rolls, veg rolls, idli, moong dal halwa and veg pulao. The ministry has also arranged special containers for water and juices.
Visuals of the attack, acquired by local television news channels, showed a man lunging at the car in which Muthoot Finance Managing Director George Alexander was travelling and throwing a stone.
In a tweet to US President Donald Trump, Iran's Foreign Affairs Minister Javad Zarif asked: "Have you ever seen such a sea of humanity in your life? Do you still want to listen to the clowns advising you on our region?"
Devendra Fadnavis said, "How can we tolerate such separatist elements in Mumbai? ‘Free Kashmir’ slogans by Azadi gang at 2km from CMO? Uddhav ji are you going to tolerate this Free Kashmir Anti India campaign right under your nose???"
Bharat Bandh on January 8, 2020, Trade Union Strike Tomorrow: In September 2019, a declaration was adopted by trade unions — INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC —along with various sectoral independent federations and associations to go on a nationwide strike on January 8, 2020.
JNU Violence Today Highlights: Twenty-four hours after masked men went on a rampage inside Jawaharlal Nehru University, leaving 31 students, two teachers and two guards injured, Delhi police are yet to make a single arrest in the case.
From JNU chief proctor to eight ABVP office-bearers among members of at least three WhatsApp groups where messages threatening violence against students of the university did the rounds Sunday to the Finance Ministry likely to provide income tax relief to the middle class in the upcoming Union Budget 2020-21, here are the top news today.
