The area had been on edge since Sunday when a rally by BJP’s Kapil Mishra to counter anti-CAA protests in the area had been followed by waves of stone-pelting.
Today’s violence came after clashes erupted in the same district Sunday, barely 30 minutes after BJP’s Kapil Mishra held a rally to counter protests against the law and warned of action if anti-CAA protesters didn’t clear the road.
Donald Trump, who spoke of his administration’s success against the ISIS and the “monster” al-Baghdadi, said US and India are “committed to working together to stop terrorists and to fight their ideology”.
There is also a dispute over the size of the protected area, with surveys by the ASI and government departments such as Revenue and Archaeology and Museums coming up with different figures.
Veteran agriculture economist Ashok Gulati feels the stagnant consumption trend in both milk and pulses is largely due to incomes, which aren’t rising as before. This is especially for the poorer sections, whose spending on protein-rich “superior” foods tends to increase even more with higher incomes.
In a video released by him after the violence, Kapil Mishra can be heard threatening the anti-CAA protesters. He told The Indian Express he had to make the statements to “release pressure” building among the crowd.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor said the “perception” that the party is “adrift” is hurting it as it is driving voters towards other political alternatives, and three-time MP Abhishek Singhvi said the time for “discussion and words” is over.
Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah said he noticed that “there are numerous... roads that have no connection with the protest that have been barricaded by the Police unnecessarily, abdicating their responsibilities and duties and wrongly laying the blame on the protest”.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and NSA Robert O’ Brien have brought along the pointperson for the Blue Dot network in the US system — Adam Boehler, CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation (USIDFC) — as part of the visiting delegation.
The government is pulling no stops in rolling out the red carpet for Donald Trump who lands in Ahmedabad at 11.40 am Monday for what officials have described as “the first standalone visit by a US President to India”.
An initiative of the state rural department, the cheap ‘Asmita Plus’ pads, being sold through self-help groups (SHGs), have encouraged village girls to shift from cotton rags to sanitary napkins.
“Our courts have also stated that terrorists and corrupt have no right to privacy. Because the right to privacy has acquired critical proportions in the wake of digital landscape expanding globally,” Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
“Our party leader Sonia Gandhi has not been invited... Democracy has various implications, of which... inherent is decency and etiquette... When Modi visited America... both Republicans and Democrats were present on the podium at the Howdy Modi event,” Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
Manoj Tiwari said everyone should be inspected, irrespective of party lines — be it Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan or Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi.
Justice Mishra said that under the “dynamic leadership” of Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, a large number of obsolete laws have been repealed.
In its judgments, the Supreme Court has underlined that while ordering arrest of the accused, a magistrate must satisfy herself that the arrest is justified, and that prima facie the FIR has the ingredients that make the offence of sedition.
According to sources, about 15 years ago, Amulya's father Osvald Noronha was part of a group of mainstream activists in Malnad region of Karnataka involved with the welfare of local communities.
Officials in the Delhi government claimed that the embassy had “initially agreed” to the CM and his deputy accompanying Melania, but conveyed on Thursday that they had changed their mind.
Sources said this would complete the “troika” of foundational agreements, which will allow India-US defence partnership to be enhanced and completely move away from the traditional technology denial regime.
Says world looking to India to uphold democratic traditions, respect for religious minorities.
Friday’s move came after the Opposition BJP slammed the circular and asked if it was “part-2 of the Congress’s Emergency’’ in a reference to the aggressive family planning programme conducted by the central government of that time.
The 19-year-old student of English from the NMKRV College in Bengaluru was forced down the stage at Freedom Park Thursday evening — which also featured AIMIM President Asauddin Owaisi — soon after she said “Pakistan Zindabad” in the beginning of her speech.
In note to House panel, judge points to watering down, foreign lobbying
The FATF, in its plenary meeting held in Paris from February 16-21, expressed serious concerns on Pakistan’s failure to complete its 27-point action plan in line with the agreed timeline which ended in September 2019.
The deal could become one of the major talking points during the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on February 24-25.








