Arvind Kejriwal To Retain Old Cabinet, Hafiz Saeed Sentenced For 5.5-Years And Other Top Stories

Times Of India: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal will be sworn in as Delhi chief minister for the third consecutive term on the morning of February 16. US President Donald Trump expects a massive welcome by millions of people when he lands in Ahmedabad on the first leg of his two-day India visit on February 24. Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack and Jamat-ud-Dawa chief, was sentenced to 11 years in two terror financing cases on Wednesday, with a fine of Rs 15,000 in each case. More

HindustanTimes: Arvind Kejriwal has opted to keep his Cabinet unchanged in its third term. Mr Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and the five other ministers will take the oath of office at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday. Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed was on Wednesday convicted by a Lahore court and given a five-and-a-half year prison term in two terror financing cases. Two Indian crew members of a cruise ship quarantined in Japan are believed to have been infected by coronavirus, embassy officials said in Tokyo on Wednesday. US President Donald Trump expects millions to welcome him on his two-day India visit this month. Fashion designer Wendell Rodricks died at his home Goa home on Wednesday. He was 59. More

Telegraph: Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah is missing from public gatherings and also from office after the Delhi poll results, wherein senior BJP leader Uma Bharti took a veiled dig at Mr Shah and hailed PM Modi. Two paramedics on a motorbike zipped through Delhi morning traffic in January to inject a 52-year-old man experiencing a heart attack, the country's first clot-buster therapy delivered to a patient at doorstep. More

Deccan Herald: The statewide bandh on Thursday is unlikely to hit normal life as government institutions and private establishments will remain open, but autorickshaws and taxis, including Ola and Uber, are expected to stay off the roads. Two macro data indicators - retail inflation and factory production - came as absolute shockers, which may curb Reserve Bank of India from giving a rate cut even in the April monetary policy review. Two Indian crew members on board a cruise ship off Japan have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Indian Embassy in Japan said. More