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Janata Dal United leader Prashant Kishor today launched a veiled attack on his party boss, Bihar Chief Nitish Kumar, praising his counterparts in Punjab, West Bengal and Kerala for having said "no to CAB and NRC" and asserting it was "time for others to make their stand clear".

The Delhi High Court on Friday reserved its verdict on the plea of Enforcement Directorate to set aside the bail granted to businessman Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, in the money laundering case connected with VVIP chopper scam.

Union Budget 2020: "The tradition will continue," said Union Minister Prahlad Joshi on Budget date of February 1.

Hundreds of students from the Jamia Millia Islamia University clashed with police in Delhi today, after they were prevented from taking out a protest march to the Parliament House against the amended Citizenship Act. Police detained 50 protestersas the violence spiralled out of control and a ban on large gatherings was imposed in the area, news agency PTI reported.

BJP MP Smriti Irani has complained to the Election Commission over Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's "Rape in India" remark that he made during a rally in Jharkhand on Thursday. "Rahul Gandhi dared to make rapes a political tool. We have requested Election Commission to take action," Ms Irani said today, hours after a massive protest by BJP leaders in parliament against the Congress MP's remark.

During the three-and-half weeks of Winter Session, 14 parliamentarians raised 11 questions related to yoga during the three-and-a-half week session, with nine of them from the BJP.

Hitting out at Pakistan, India has said the footprint of every major act of international terrorism passes through this country where terrorists are trained in safe havens to take innocent lives.

Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Shillong, Meghalaya, on Sunday, has been cancelled, sources in the Home Ministry have said, amid raging protests over the Citizenship Act. He will also not visit Arunachal Pradesh on Monday.

Sachin Pilot said the Congress has been delivering on the promises made in its election manifesto in Rajasthan.

A top US lawmaker has pushed for strong defence ties with New Delhi by supporting an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include India in the NATO plus five countries.

The United Nations human rights office voiced concern on Friday that India's new citizenship law is "fundamentally discriminatory in nature" by excluding Muslims and called for it to be reviewed.

Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday visited the headquarters of the Border Security Force (BSF) and reviewed its operational preparedness along the borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, officials said. Mr Shah spent about four hours at the head office of the force that is located in the CGO complex on Lodhi Road in Delhi.

The curfew imposed in parts of Shillong following violent protests was relaxed on Friday for 12 hours, beginning 10 am, with no untoward incident being reported from the areas, officials said.

The national auditor in a report on a flagship government scheme that gives free cooking gas to the poor has highlighted the risk of diversion of domestic LPG cylinders for commercial use. "Risk of diversion of domestic cylinders for commercial use was noticed as 1.98 lakh PMUY beneficiaries had an average annual consumption of more than 12 cylinders which seems improbable in view of their BPL status," the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said in its latest report.

Individual state governments are not empowered to halt the implementation of a law that comes under the centre's mandate, sources in the Union Home Ministry claimed today, amid a rising chorus of opposition to the amended Citizenship Act.