Breaking News on February 17

CEC Sunil Arora names fellow commissioner Sushil Chandra as his nominee for proposed J&K Delimitation Commission

Gujarat High Court rejects bail plea of Congress leader Hardik Patel in 2015 Patidar agitation case. The case was registered at Vastrapur police station.

News agency AFP reported, 20 were killed in Niger in food distribution stampede on Monday.

A massive fire broke out at a Pandal in Gwalior's Kunj Vihar colony on Monday. The fire has been doused by the firefighters but it burnt a major portion of the pandal. 

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Aishe Ghosh and other students protest against CAA, NRC, and NPR at Delhi's Jantar Mantar. They also raised slogans demanding the release of Sharjeel Imam and Dr Kafeel Khan.

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Monday his Belgian counterpart. After the meeting, he tweeted, "Happy to meet Foreign Affairs Minister of Belgium Philippe Goffin. Confident that we can build further on our bilateral, European Union and global partnerships."

Voda Idea pays Rs 2,500 crore, Tata Group over Rs 2,190 crore to DoT

Additional 99 coronavirus cases have revealed on Japan cruise ship, the biggest cluster of coronavirus infections is aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan's Yokohama. This brings the total diagnosed cases to 454.

News agency AFP quoted, 14 test positive among US plane evacuees from Japan coronavirus ship.

The four Nirbhaya convicts get new death warrant. They will be hanged on March 3.

24 killed in Burkina Faso church attack

Portfolio allocation in Delhi Govt has been finalised. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not be taking charge of any Department. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to be under Satyendra Kumar Jain.

The Department of Environment has been allocated to Gopal Rai, and the Department of Women and Child Development has been allocated to Rajendra Pal Gautam.

Nirbhaya case: SC reserves order on pleas seeking fresh death penalty for convicts; to be pronounced shortly

Former Chief Secretary of Tripura Y P Singh who was wanted in the Rs 600 crore PWD scam has been arrested in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) today. Officials of Tripura Police Crime Branch will bring Singh to Agartala & produce him before the court.

Twitter outages are being reported worldwide with some people experience trouble on desktop and some on phones. 

The Crime Branch team on Monday, conducts physical verification of rifles at the Police Chief Store in Trivandrum. 

"Today, we checked each rifle along with the issuance of Police Chief Store. The probe team is satisfied that none of the rifles are missing. We're continuing investigation on an allegation that ammunition is missing. We plan to submit the final report in 2 months", Crime Branch Chief said,

Another Air India plane to bring back stranded Indian students from Coronavirus-hit China. The deadly epidemic has claimed over 1,700 lives so far with over 2,000 new cases being reported.

China is considering a rare move to postpone its annual parliament session scheduled to be held in early March as the country grapples with the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed over 1,700 lives, official media reported on Monday.

Maharana Pratap chowk in Mumbai's Mazgaon area. Several people are feared trapped inside the building.

A 32-year-old Indian man has died in the UAE after sustaining severe burn injuries in his bid to save his wife from a fire at their home in Abu Dhabi last week, according to a media report on Monday.

Arvind Kejriwal takes charge as the Chief Minister of Delhi for the third time, at Delhi Secretariat. AAP has registered a massive victory in the recently concluded assembly elections winning 62 of the total 70 seats while BJP bagging on 8 out of them.

PM Modi while addressing the 13th Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species in Gandhinagar via video conference said, "India is one of the most diverse countries of the world. With 2.4% of world’s land area, it contributes about 8% of the known global biodiversity."

Supreme Court on Monday while delivering its judgement on Centre's appeal challenging the Delhi High Court's ruling in 2010, for granting permanent commission to women officers in Army said that after the judgment of Delhi High Court, Centre should grant permanent commission to women officers.

A special court in Delhi has issued notice to ED and CBI on Congress leader Karti Chidambaram's plea seeking permission to travel abroad. He is a co-accused in INX media and Aircel-Maxis case and is currently on bail in the matters.

The notice has been issued after Karti Chidambaram moved an application seeking trial court permission to travel to go to London and France for 2 weeks to attend several tennis matches. 

Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Saturday said, "several dates (of court hearing) have come and gone but fresh death warrants haven't been issued yet. But we go with new hope in every hearing. Their lawyers use new tactics everyday, I can't say what will happen today but I'm hopeful."

A patient in Kerala, who was earlier found to be Coronavirus positive, has been discharged from the hospital and is presently under home isolation. Earlier, one patient was discharged. Now the number of patients discharged is 2. However, the overall death toll globally due to the epidemic has crossed 1700.

Supreme Court to pronounce judgement today on Centre's appeal against Delhi High Court's directions passed in 2010, for granting permanent commission to women officers in Indian Army. 

Delhi High Court to hear today plea seeking court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged molestation of students during a cultural festival at the all-women Gargi College on 6th February.

Delhi's fire department has canceled the license of a 5-star hotel The Park hotel after a fire incident in the hotel on Saturday.