The farming is being supervised by top scientists from the Lucknow-based Central Institute of Medicine and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), while the roses are being monitored by scientists from National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI).

The families told the Chief Minister that the two victims were bystanders and that they had not participanted in the protests against CAA. “We have decided to give compensation within the ambit of the law to the families of the persons who died. I am giving directions to the district authorities to decide on what has to be done. They will make an announcement,’’ Yediyurappa said.

At least 215 mentally ill patients will be moved out as part of the “rehabilitation”. Of them, 85 will be moved to beggars’ home in the first batch.

While BJP allies Nitish Kumar and Chirag Paswan opposed the NRC, BJP leaders Ram Madhav and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said no plan yet for nationwide NRC.

According to police, two persons died in Bijnor, and one each in Meerut, Kanpur, Firozabad and Sambhal.

A total of 32 people were detained, apart from several minors who were apprehended and remained inside Darya Ganj police station premises till late Friday night.

The NPR updation is to be done across India (except Assam) from April 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020, along with the next Census enumeration.

The India Today-Axis survey predicted 38-50 seats for the Opposition alliance and gave 22-32 seats to the BJP. The majority mark in the 81-member Assembly is 41.

PM Modi said the government has decriminalised many provisions of the Companies Act and that work is underway to bring in more provisions, adding that the government listens to industry, understands their needs and is sensitive to their suggestions.

According to economist and state finance commission chairman Dr B A Prakash, the return of migrants should be seen against the backdrop of a severe recession in Kerala.

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The Karnataka HC has also directed the Advocate General (AG) to check whether the police had initially granted permission for staging protests but later revoked it after imposing section 144. The AG was asked to submit his reply at 4 pm today.

The court had on Monday found Sengar guilty of rape, and under Sections 5(c) and 6 of POCSO Act. His co-accused, Shashi Singh, was acquitted after the court granted him benefit of doubt.

On Wednesday, Yediyurappa had said that CAA would be implemented in the state. On Thursday, he moved to assure the Muslim community that their interests would be protected by the BJP government in the state.

In the Old Lucknow neighbourhood in UP and in Karnataka’s Mangalore, protests took a violent turn as angry mobs fought pitched battles with the police and set ablaze buses and vehicles. One was killed in Lucknow and two in Mangalore.

After the meeting, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who heads the Council, said “every attempt was made to keep that set tradition alive, every attempt was made to convince based on opinion making in the house”.

The chief ministers of five Opposition-ruled states — West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee, Punjab’s Amarinder Singh, Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh’s Bhupesh Baghel and Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan — have already opposed both the CAB and NRC.

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CJI Bobde declined to oblige some of the petitioners’ lawyers, who pressed for a stay, and said that the Bench would not hear the matter Wednesday.

On the same day, a visual arts exhibition curated by Sudarshan Shetty at the prestigious event was briefly shut after visitors scribbled slogans against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act on blank canvases.

All four are residents of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh.

This was the court’s verdict in at least five habeas corpus petitions challenging preventive detentions after August 5, when the government scrapped the special status of the state and split it into two Union Territories.

While the report on blood banks was submitted in June 2018, the CAG said, a reply was awaited till August 2019. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat holds the Health portfolio.

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