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A team of researchers from Lucknow, mistaken to be surveyors for NRC, was caught by residents of a village in Bihar's Darbhanga and handed them over to the police, a senior official said on Sunday.

India is facing a major diplomatic backlash from the European Union parliament on the Citizenship Amendment Act and the clampdown on Jammu and Kashmir ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expected visit to Brussels for the India-EU summit in March.

As China scrambles to contain the rapidly-spreading coronavirus that has killed 56 people and infected nearly 2,000, the Foreign Ministry said today that it is examining all options in consultation with the Chinese government to address the concerns of stranded Indians, including students, in Wuhan-the epicentre of the deadly infection. The Foreign Ministry, however, said that no Indian has been infected though students have been asked to take precautions.

Armies of India and China held a ceremonial Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) in Ladakh sector on Sunday to mark the country's 71st Republic Day, a defence spokesperson said.

Britisher Fiona Mackeown, whose teenage daughter was sexually abused before her death in Goa in 2008, on Sunday said she shared the pain of the mother of Nirbhaya whose rapists are awaiting gallows in the 2012 case.

The Congress on Sunday hit out at the centre for awarding a Padma Shri honour to singer-musician Adnan Sami.

A Gurdwara in the US state of California organised an open house and welcomed hundreds of people in a bid to spread awareness about the religion, weeks after it was defaced with a swastika graffiti in an apparent hate-crime.

A 45-year-old PhD student of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was found dead under mysterious circumstances, police said on Sunday.

Three elderly women, who have come to be known as the "dadis of Shaheen Bagh" for leading the anti-CAA agitation there, and the mother of Rohith Vemula, a hyderabad University student who allegedly committed suicide in 2016, hoisted the tricolour at the protest venue on Sunday to mark the country's 71st Republic Day.

Yoga guru Ramdev today said that India belongs to 125 crore citizens and not to one political party or ideology.

Violence can never resolve any issue and no problem can be worked out by creating another, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his monthly "Mann ki Baat" radio address - the first of the year.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was detained in Hyderabad ahead of a planned protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens on Sunday evening. Lungerhouse police said the administration had not given permission for the agitation, and the Dalit leader was taken into custody to prevent him from going ahead with it.

Amid nationwide agitation against citizenship law CAA, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today called for raising the level of protests and said "as long as freedom is denied to any number of people, the whole population is denied freedom".

The war of words between the BJP and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party continued as the Delhi assembly elections inched closer by yet another day, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying that Union Home Minister Amit Shah's jibes at institutions in the national capital amounted to "insulting" its people.

Hailing the setting up of a coordination panel by the Congress in Rajasthan as a "good move", Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Sunday said people who struggled for ensuring victory in polls must be made to feel a valuable part of the ruling government.