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The Delhi Police move comes in the backdrop of violence in northeast Delhi that resulted into the death of 41 persons and injuries to over 200 others.

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India struggled to 90/6 in their second innings after dismissing New Zealand for 235 on Day 2 of the second Test in Christchurch on Sunday. At stumps, Pant (1*) and Vihari (5*) were at the crease with India leading by 97 runs. Earlier, pacers led India's fightback with the trio of Shami (4/81), Bumrah (3/62) and Umesh (1/46) sharing 8 wickets.

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The list of countries touched by coronavirus climbed to nearly 60, and three more have reported their first fatalities. More than 86,000 people worldwide have contracted the illness, with deaths topping 2,900. Stay here for all live updates

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Mushtari Khatoon mostly stays at home, doing stitching jobs to supplement her husband’s income. The 42-year-old doesn’t often venture out.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/woman-got-past-rioters-rescued-40-trapped-relatives-via-rooftops/articleshow/74421441.cms

Soon after the arrival of a delegation of 211 Pakistani pilgrims in Ajmer for Urs celebrations, the district admin on Saturday imposed curbs on them citing visa rules. For the first time, Pakistani pilgrims have been asked to visit the shrine for a specific duration instead of going to the dargah any time of the day.

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A Wildlife Institute of India (WII) study has red-flagged a major concern over diminishing hunting skills in younger lions due to cubs being increasingly fed with dumped carcasses in tourism zones.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/from-royal-feasts-to-tourism-titbits-gir-lions-turning-into-scavengers/articleshow/74422390.cms

Ravindra Jadeja was at his absolute best on the field as he took a one-handed blinder to dismiss Neil Wagner in the second session on Day 2 of the second Test in Christchurch.

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Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said the sole purpose of redrawing the boundaries of assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in Assam should be to protect the political rights of native Assamese by creating more seats in which a majority of voters would be from indigenous groups. “At least 110 should be kept for the indigenous people," he added.

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It appears that erroneous judgements, inadequate deployment and absence of swift decisions on the part of police led to northeast Delhi spinning out of control and 42 people being killed in a span of 36 hours. TOI spoke to several police officers whose accounts seemed to suggest this was what happened when riots broke out last Sunday.

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From textiles fabrics, refrigerators and suitcases to antibiotics, the government has begun a hunt for 1,050 items from across the world as supplies from China, which accounts for over 50% of India’s imports, are hit due to coronavirus. Also on the list are automatic data processing machines, diodes and semiconductor devices, auto parts and several steel items.

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Check live cricket score, scorecard and ball-by-ball commentary of 2nd Test match between India and New Zealand on Times of India.

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The US signed a historic deal with Taliban insurgents on Saturday that could pave the way toward a full withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan over the next 14 months, hopefully ending the 18-year-war that began after the September 11 attacks. US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar signed the deal in Doha, Qatar.

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PM Modi on Saturday said a govt is obligated to ensure justice and equal benefits for all sections of society. ​​​​​Citing the “ mangal mantra” from the Vedas at a function in Prayagraj, Modi said it is the responsibility of the govt to ensure that every person is included, gets the benefit of development and gets justice.​ The function was organised to distribute aid to the differently abled.

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As US signalled an end to the war in Afghanistan with a peace deal with Taliban, India's foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla with Afghan leaders in Kabul and reiterating India's commitment to an enhanced political, economic and development partnership. The meetings — even as the peace deal was being signed in Doha — indicate a resolve to remain engaged in Afghanistan.

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"I may never be excited about a crowd again after going to India," said US President Donald Trump at a rally in South Carolina, days after his maiden visit to India where he addressed a rally of over 100,000 people. "I may never be excited again about a crowd after going to India. Think of this, they have 1.5 billion people. We have 350, so we are doing pretty well, I will tell you what, but I love this crowd and I love that crowd too."

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The list of countries touched by Coronavirus climbed to nearly 60 as Mexico, Belarus, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Iceland and the Netherlands reported their first cases. More than 83,000 people worldwide have contracted the illness, with deaths topping 2,800. Stay here for all live updates

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The United States signed a historic deal with Taliban insurgents on Saturday that could pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan. Tilak Devasher, formerly with RAW, said, "India's interest is to secure the investments we have made in Afghanistan in the past two decades, and the security of our diplomats, personnel and missions ... Of particular concern would be the prospect that Pakistan could use any such spaces to move its anti-India terror infra."

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Some signs of normalcy returned to riot-hit areas of northeast Delhi on Saturday as people stepped out of their homes to buy groceries and medicines from a few shops that opened amid intensified patrolling by security personnel.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/situation-returning-to-normal-in-riot-hit-northeast-delhi-some-shops-reopen/articleshow/74418181.cms

The United States signed a historic deal with Taliban insurgents on Saturday that could pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan over the next 14 months and represent a step toward ending the 18-year-war there.

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Last week was an expensive one for most investors, even for billionaires. The combined fortunes of the world’s 500 richest people fell by $444 billion as the coronavirus continued to spread — and spread fear — rattling equity markets worldwide.

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Convicts Akshay Singh and Pawan Kumar Gupta on Saturday moved a Delhi court seeking a stay on the execution of death warrants against all four, scheduled for March 3, in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. Additional session Judge Dharmender Rana issued notice to Tihar Jail authorities on the plea of Singh, directing them to file their response by March 2.

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Pro-Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) sloganeering and incendiary chants of "shoot the traitors" were made inside a train on Delhi Metro's Blue Line and also at the Rajiv Chowk metro station here on Saturday by a group of young men.

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The ruling Communist Party, facing a storm of anger from the Chinese public over its missteps, is trying to rehabilitate its image by rebranding itself as the unequivocal leader in the global fight against the virus.

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Muhyiddin Yassin will become Malaysia's next Prime Minister, the country's king announced on Saturday, saying he may have the majority support among lawmakers in parliament. The appointment follows this week's shock resignation of Mahathir Mohamad, 94, as premier in a move that plunged the country into crisis.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/malaysias-king-appoints-muhyiddin-yassin-as-prime-minister/articleshow/74414137.cms

Life slowly returned to normalcy in northeast parts of Delhi on Saturday, after violence claimed the lives of at least 42 people earlier this week. Several shops resumed business and customers can be seen buying items of daily needs. The Delhi government has started a helpline number to report hate speeches and promised cash incentive for victims.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/five-days-after-violence-north-east-delhi-limps-back-to-normalcy/articleshow/74412781.cms

Seamer Kyle Jamieson took five for 45 as New Zealand dismissed India for 242 after tea on day one of the second and final Test on Saturday before consolidating their advantage by reaching the close of play on 63 without loss.

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Days after the violence in northeast Delhi ebbed, many families are still searching for relatives who went missing during the riotous days. Some have located their bodies in hospitals, which have reported 42 deaths till Friday. Others are still ding the rounds.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/people-wait-at-hospitals-hoping-for-the-best-expecting-the-worst/articleshow/74409155.cms

Five days after riots broke out in several parts of northeast Delhi, several families are still searching for their missing members. Most of them have already checked the hospitals, assuming they would find their near and dear ones either in the emergency block or at least in the mortuary, but to no avail.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/on-a-wing-a-prayer-people-run-from-pillar-to-post-to-trace-missing-relatives/articleshow/74409139.cms

Truck drivers and fleet owners shell out around Rs 48,000 crore annually as bribes to traffic or highway police, besides personnel from the transport and tax departments, according to a study carried out across 10 major transport and transit hubs. The study by SaveLife Foundation, a not-for-profit entity, claimed that over 82% respondents had admitted to having bribed “officials of one or the other department on the road” during their last trip.

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The Delhi government has given its approval to the police to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case for allegedly raising anti-India slogans during an event inside the university campus in Feb 2016. The approval was awaited for a long time. Police filed the charge sheet in Jan last year.

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BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Friday said the next Asia Cup will be held in Dubai, paving the way for both India and Pakistan to participate in the continental tournament. Pak was the designated hosts for the tournament in Sept, but BCCI made it clear that the Indian team would not be able to travel to the neighbouring country owing to security concerns.

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Countries on 3 continents reported their first cases of the coronavirus on Friday as the world prepared for a pandemic and investors dumped equities in expectation of a global recession. Coronavirus panic sent world share markets crashing again, compounding their worst week since the 2008 global financial crisis and bringing the wipeout to $5 trillion.

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Their pride bruised and technique exposed in adverse conditions, India's famed batting line-up will face its hour of reckoning against a New Zealand pace attack, threatening to be relentless with its short ball tactic in the second Test starting Saturday.

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A few years ago, my grandmother suffered a fall and broke her hip. She has never fully recovered and is now constantly fearful of falling, and has significantly limited her activities to prevent a fall from ever happening again. As a scientist focused on translational research in mobility and falls in older adults, of course I asked her how she fell. She stated that she was standing in the kitchen and reading a recipe when the phone rang. When she turned and started to walk over to the phone, her feet “weren’t in the right spot.” She fell sideways and unfortunately, her hip was unable to absorb the impact without breaking.

For older adults, falls are a leading cause of hip and wrist fractures, concussions, mobility disability, loss of independence, and even death. As it turns out, the circumstances leading up to my grandmother’s fall were typical. In fact, the majority of falls occur when an individual is “dual-tasking;” that is, standing or walking while at the same time performing a separate cognitive task (such as reading), a motor task (carrying groceries), or both (walking while talking and carrying a cup of coffee).

Why does dual-tasking (or multitasking) often lead to falls in older adults?

It turns out that the seemingly simple acts of standing upright, or walking down an empty, well-lit hallway, are quite complex. To complete these tasks, we must continuously stabilize our body’s center of mass — a point located just behind our sternum — over the relatively small base of support that we create by positioning our feet on the ground. This control requires quick reflexes, as well as strong muscles of the trunk, hips, legs, ankles, and toes. However, to avoid falling we also need to pay attention to our body and environment, predict and perceive unsafe movements of our body, and adjust accordingly. Our brains need to quickly make sense of information coming from our eyes, ears, and bodies to produce patterns of muscle activity that appropriately adjust our body’s position within the environment.

Therefore, tasks of standing and walking are in fact cognitive tasks, and these tasks require more and more cognitive effort as we grow older and our senses and muscles no longer work as well as they once did. For my grandmother and many others, dual-tasking led to a fall because it diverted shared cognitive resources away from the critical job of controlling her body’s center of mass over her feet on the ground.

The role of our minds in the avoidance of falls is striking

Older adults who are cognitively impaired are more than two times as likely to fall compared to those who are cognitively intact. A recent study by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine has shown that even subtle differences in the brain’s ability to dual-task when walking are predictive of future falls in healthy older adults. Specifically, the researchers asked their volunteers to walk while completing a word-generation task in their laboratory, and used a technology called functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure brain activity. Those volunteers who required more brain activity (mental effort) to complete these tasks were more likely to fall during a four-year follow-up period.

Thankfully, these startling studies have a silver lining: they suggest that cognitive function is a promising — and largely untapped — target for the prevention and rehabilitation of falls. In fact, there are several large-scale clinical trials currently underway that are testing the effects of computer-based cognitive training on balance, mobility, and falls in older adults (see here and here). There is also strong evidence that a physical therapy program that asks patients to balance while completing cognitive tasks like counting backwards significantly reduces the incidence of falls in stroke survivors.

It seems like only a matter of time before cognitive and dual-task training become mainstays of fall prevention programming in older adults. In the meantime, if you are worried about falling, or feel like your balance is slipping, you might consider the following:

• Be aware of your surroundings. Try to minimize distractions if and when you find yourself standing in a crowded room, walking down an uneven sidewalk, or in a hurry to get to an appointment. In these situations, avoid answering your cellphone, keep conversations light, and prioritize your balance above all else.
• Keep your mind sharp. Cognitive decline is not an unavoidable consequence of aging. There are evidence-based tips for maximizing your mental abilities into older age.
• Consider joining a group activity class focused on tai chi, yoga, or dance. These safe mind-body exercises have proven effective for improving balance and even reducing falls in numerous populations of older adults.
• Remember that falls rarely occur due to a single factor, like poor muscle strength, fatigue, or reduced vision. Instead, they usually occur when multiple factors combine to cause an irrecoverable loss of balance. Multifactorial strategies therefore appear to be the best “medicine” for the avoidance of falls over time.

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India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the third quarter (October-December) stood at 4.7 per cent from 5.1 per cent in the July-September quarter, government data showed on Friday. The revision for the September quarter was up sharply from the 4.5% preliminary report, which would have been the weakest growth in more than six years.

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India on Friday advised Pakistan's top leadership to stop terror funding and dismantle terrorist camps operating from its soil and territories under its control while decrying Islamabad's efforts to derail the positive developments in Jammu and Kashmir.

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One of the four death row convicts, Pawan Kumar Gupta, in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with President.

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Domestic equity indices tanked sharply on Friday tracking global markets on growing fears that the coronavirus outbreak could derail economic growth. The benchmark BSE sensex dived 1,448 points or 3.64% to close at 38,297; while the broader NSE Nifty moved 432 points or 3.71% to close at 11,202. Stocks wiped nearly Rs 5.5 lakh crore of investor wealth.

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Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi government has proposed to extend five per cent reservation to Muslims in educational institutes, minority affairs minister Nawab Malik said here on Friday.

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As the novel coronavirus spreads from China around the globe, India appears especially at risk because of its dense population, patchy health-care system and high rate of migration. The nation has confirmed just three cases, while the Indian government says 23,531 people are under observation.

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With more bodies being recovered from drains and people in hospitals dying of injuries, the death toll in the northeast Delhi communal riots rose to 38. Meanwhile, MHA official said that senior IPS officer SN Shrivastava would be the next Delhi Police commissioner. Stay with TOI for all the live updates:

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Equity indices crashed on Friday with the benchmark BSE sensex plunging over 1,000 points amid rising concerns on global spread of coronavirus. Sensex dived 1,042 points or 2.62 per cent to 38,704; while the broader NSE Nifty cracked 300 points or 2.57 per cent to 11,334.

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While there are only a few known cases in India, one source said the country's available countermeasures and the potential for the virus to spread given India's dense population was a focus of serious concern.

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Till Tuesday afternoon, there were no signs that the violence in northeast Delhi would come to an end any time soon. Police had evidently failed in stopping the rioters from wreaking havoc and the morale of the force seemed to have hit rock bottom with severe criticism coming from all sides. However, Delhi Police bounced back and regained control of the law and order situation in less than 24 hours.

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AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and his aides were on Thursday booked in the case of murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) official Ankit Sharma. Though he had not been arrested till late on Thursday, the police raided his house and sealed his factory in northeast Delhi. His call records and mobile activity are being scanned to ascertain the identity of the people he was in touch with.

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The World Health Organization declared Thursday that the new coronavirus epidemic was at a 'decisive point' as countries across the globe battled to contain the deadly outbreak. Stay with TOI for all updates.

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: The virulence of the novel coronavirus continues to show a declining trend in China which reported 29 new fatalities, the lowest in weeks, taking the death toll to 2,744 while the confirmed cases climbed to 78,497, officials said on Thursday. Among the deaths, 26 were from the epicentre of the virus Hubei province and its capital Wuhan and one each from Beijing, Heilongjiang and Henan, it said.

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Prostate cancer therapies are improving over time. But how do the long-term side effects from the various options available today compare? Results from a newly published study are providing some valuable insights.

Investigators at Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center spent five years tracking the sexual, bowel, urinary, and hormonal status of nearly 2,000 men after they had been treated for prostate cancer, or monitored with active surveillance (which entails checking the tumor periodically and treating it only if it begins to grow). Cancers in all the men were still confined to the prostate when diagnosed.

Dr. Karen Hoffman, a radiation oncologist at MD Anderson and the study’s first author, said the intent was to provide information that could help men choose from among the various therapeutic options. “Surgical and radiation techniques have changed significantly in the last few decades, and at the same time, active surveillance has become an increasingly acceptable strategy,” she said. “We wanted to understand the adverse events associated with contemporary approaches from the patient’s perspective.”

Roughly two-thirds of the men enrolled in the study had “favorable risk” cancer, which is nonaggressive and slow-growing. A quarter of these men chose active surveillance, and the rest were treated with one of three different methods:

• nerve-sparing prostatectomy (an operation to remove the prostate with the intent of sparing the nerves required for erections)
• external beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
• low-dose rate brachytherapy, which is a method for destroying cancerous tissues with tiny radioactive beads implanted inside the prostate gland.

Men with favorable risk cancer who chose EBRT or active surveillance tended to be older than men who choose surgery, likely because increasing age and illness make prostatectomy harder to tolerate.

The rest of the men in the study were diagnosed with “unfavorable risk” tumors that were more likely to spread. These men were treated either with prostatectomy, or with EBRT combined with drugs that block testosterone (a hormone that fuels growing prostate tumors).

What the results showed

After five years, there were no significant differences in survival associated with any of the selected treatments. Just one man in the favorable risk category died from prostate cancer during the study, and there were eight deaths from the disease in the unfavorable risk group.

Many men in the study had initial problems with sexual, bowel, urinary, and hormonal functioning. Brachytherapy caused more irritative urinary problems during the initial six months than the other treatments, but then those symptoms steadily improved. Brachytherapy and EBRT were associated with minor bowel symptoms such as urgency, bleeding, frequency, and pain that resolved within a year in men from both risk groups.

After five years, differences in side effects between the treatment options had disappeared, with a notable exception: about half the surgically treated men in both the favorable and unfavorable risk groups still had difficulty achieving erections sufficient for intercourse, and between 10% and 13% of them reported ongoing problems with urinary leakage and incontinence. “However, I don’t want anyone to walk away from this analysis thinking they should not get a prostatectomy,” Dr. Hoffman emphasized. “Side effects will differ from person to person.” Furthermore, radiation side effects may still develop even after five years, “and this is something we’re continuing to monitor,” she said. “Our hope is that doctors will use this information to counsel men on expected side effects so they can make an informed choice that is right for them.”

Dr. Marc Garnick, Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and editor in chief of HarvardProstateKnowledge.org, agreed the study provides a valuable resource that adds to existing information. Yet he cautioned against brachytherapy, warning that this particular treatment in some cases has long-term urinary side effects that can significantly alter a patient’s quality of life. “I do not routinely recommend brachytherapy,” Garnick said. “This is especially true in patients with a pre-existing history of urinary tract infections or prostatitis.”

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About 15,000 Indian jewellers have been sent surprise tax notices asking them to turn over money they made from customers who scrambled to buy gold after PM Modi's 2016 ban on high currency notes said Surendra Mehta, secretary of the India Bullion and Jewellers Association. Mehta estimated tax authorities are seeking around Rs 50,000 crore ($7 billion).

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Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday told the Legislative Council that 348 cases related to the Koregaon Bhima violence have been withdrawn by the state government so far. He said this in response to a query by Congress legislator Sharad Ranpise.

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Sporadic violence was reported from riot-hit areas in northeast Delhi, even as an eerie calm prevailed across the neighbourhoods in Jaffarabad, Maujpur, Chandbagh, Gokulpuri and surrounding areas, with the death toll reaching 37 on Thursday. Stay with us for all the live updates

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India has brought back its citizens stranded on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan. Another IAF plane evacuated 76 more Indians from Wuhan in China, the ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak. Stay with TOI for all updates.

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The peaceful protests started against the Citizenship Amendment Act in December last year turned violent in January underlining police failure in assessing the intensity of brewing animosity among the people. After BJP leader Kapil Mishra made controversial remarks on Feb 23, police failed to take action against him and his party didn't denounce his speech.

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Infectious disease experts stressed that people should not panic and offered practical advice. "The mantra is, "Keep calm and carry on," said Dr Marguerite Neill, an infectious disease expert at Brown University. And use common sense, stay home from work if you are sick, experts said.

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India became the first team to reach the Women's Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals on Thursday after beating New Zealand by four runs to register a third successive victory at the tournament.

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Sporadic violence was reported from riot-hit areas in northeast Delhi, even as an eerie calm prevailed across the neighbourhoods in Jaffarabad, Maujpur, Chandbagh, Gokulpuri and surrounding areas, with the death toll reaching 34 on Thursday. Stay with us for all the live updates

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While northeast Delhi was caught in a communal frenzy, Indira Vihar, a locality in Shiv Vihar, proved gallantly different. There are 3,200 houses in the area, and a mere eight of them belong to Hindu families. To save them from the mob, the residents even changed the nameplate on a pickle maker’s shop and guarded a temple. “Whether it is Diwali or a cremation, we have always been at each other’s side, so why not today?” reasoned Wasim.

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The 40-odd Muslim residents of northeast Delhi's Ashok Nagar found brotherhood and hope amid the smouldering ruins of their homes after a 1,000-strong mob damaged the only six Muslim households in the colony near Badi Masjid. The mosque was also set on fire. Nonetheless, homeless families are now being supported by their Hindu neighbours and are living with them.

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Talking to reporters, after his return from India on Wednesday, Trump said, "He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) is a great gentleman, a great leader. It's an incredible country." President Trump visited India from February 24 to 25.

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Delhi Police was sent at least six alerts on Sunday warning of possible violence and asking for deployment to be stepped up after BJP functionary Kapil Mishra called for a gathering at northeast Delhi’s Maujpur. Clashes erupted the same evening and turned into full-fledged riots the next day, but police failed to act in time.

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A special Air India flight carrying 119 Indians and five nationals from Sri Lanka, Nepal, South Africa and Peru, who were on board the coronavirus-hit quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, landed in New Delhi on Thursday morning. India thanked Japanese authorities for facilitating the evacuation of people. " Thank you @airindiain once again," tweeted EAM S Jaishankar.

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman rapped state-run banks for lacking consumer connect and said often executives at the branch level could not communicate in the local language or provide details of government schemes. ​​​The minister’s outbursts at an event to unveil the next phase of public sector bank reform plan, EASE 3.0, were triggered by repeated customer complaints from across the country.

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The Centre on Wednesday transferred Justice S Muralidhar of the Delhi HC to the Punjab and Haryana HC. The SC Collegium had earlier recommended his transfer. Earlier in the day, Justice Muralidhar passed a series of orders with regard to the violence in northeast Delhi and said that "another 1984-like situation cannot be allowed to happen in the city under its watch."

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After two days of communal clashes that claimed 27 lives, a brittle quiet settled over parts of northeast Delhi on Wednesday but there was violence in some other places with shops set ablaze and the body of an IB staffer found in a drain. Security personnel were spread out across the northeastern edge of Delhi in a bid to quell the violence raging since Sunday.

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The dopamine fast, created by California psychiatrist Dr. Cameron Sepah, has very little to do with either fasting or dopamine. As Sepah told the New York Times, “Dopamine is just a mechanism that explains how addictions can become reinforced, and makes for a catchy title. The title’s not to be taken literally.” Unfortunately, with such a snazzy name, who could resist? This is where the misconceptions begin.

What’s the thinking behind a dopamine fast?

What Sepah intended with his dopamine fast was a method, based on cognitive behavioral therapy, by which we can become less dominated by the unhealthy stimuli — the texts, the notifications, the beeps, the rings — that accompany living in a modern, technology-centric society. Instead of automatically responding to these reward-inducing cues, which provide us with an immediate but short-lived charge, we ought to allow our brains to take breaks and reset from this potentially addictive bombardment. The idea is that by allowing ourselves to feel lonely or bored, or to find pleasures in doing simpler and more natural activities, we will regain control over our lives and be better able to address compulsive behaviors that may be interfering with our happiness.

The six compulsive behaviors he cites as behaviors that may respond to a dopamine fast are: emotional eating, excessive internet usage and gaming, gambling and shopping, porn and masturbation, thrill and novelty seeking, and recreational drugs. But he emphasizes that dopamine fasting can be used to help control any behaviors that are causing you distress or negatively affecting your life.

You can’t “fast” from a naturally occurring brain chemical

Dopamine is one of the body’s neurotransmitters, and is involved in our body’s system for reward, motivation, learning, and pleasure. While dopamine does rise in response to rewards or pleasurable activities, it doesn’t actually decrease when you avoid overstimulating activities, so a dopamine “fast” doesn’t actually lower your dopamine levels.

Unfortunately, legions of people have misinterpreted the science, as well as the entire concept of a dopamine fast. People are viewing dopamine as if it was heroin or cocaine, and are fasting in the sense of giving themselves a “tolerance break” so that the pleasures of whatever they are depriving themselves of — food, sex, human contact — will be more intense or vivid when consumed again, believing that depleted dopamine stores will have replenished themselves. Sadly, it doesn’t work that way at all.

Fasting may simply be a technique to reduce stress and engage in mindfulness-based practices

Sepah recommends that we start a fast in a way that is minimally disruptive to our lifestyles. For example, we could practice dopamine fasting from one to four hours at the end of the day (depending on work and family demands), for one weekend day (spend it outside on a Saturday or Sunday), one weekend per quarter (go on a local trip), and one week per year (go on vacation).

This all sounds sensible, if not necessarily new or groundbreaking. In fact, it sounds a lot like many mindfulness practices and good sleep hygiene, in the suggestion of no screen time before bed.

However, people are adopting ever more extreme, ascetic, and unhealthy versions of this fasting, based on misconceptions about how dopamine works in our brains. They are not eating, exercising, listening to music, socializing, talking more than necessary, and not allowing themselves to be photographed if there’s a flash (not sure if this applies to selfies).

Misunderstanding science can create maladaptive behaviors

When you think that none of this is actually lowering dopamine, it’s kind of funny! Especially since avoiding interacting with people, looking at people, and communicating with people was never part of Sepah’s original idea. Human interaction (unless it is somehow compulsive and destructive) is in the category of healthy activities that are supposed to supplant the unhealthy ones, such as surfing social media for hours each day. In essence, the dopamine fasters are depriving themselves of healthy things, for no reason, based on faulty science and a misinterpretation of a catchy title.

Taking time out for mental rejuvenation is never a bad thing, but it’s nothing new

The original intent behind the dopamine fast was to provide a rationale and suggestions for disconnecting from days of technology-driven frenzy and substituting more simple activities to help us reconnect us with ourselves and others. This idea is noble, healthy, and worthwhile, but it’s certainly not a new concept. Most religions also suggest a rest day (for example, the Jewish Sabbath) or holidays without technological distractions, so that you can reflect and reconnect with family and community, Thousands of years of meditation also suggests that a mindful approach to living reaps many health benefits.

Unfortunately, the modern wellness industry has become so lucrative that people are creating snappy titles for age-old concepts. Perhaps that is how to best categorize this fad, if only we can get its proponents to look at us or speak to us, without disturbing their dopamine levels, in order to explain this to them.

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Jammu and Kashmir "was, is and shall forever" remain an integral part of India, India said at the UNHRC's meeting on Wednesday, a day after Pakistan sought the international community's intervention on the Kashmir issue. Speaking at the 43rd session in Switzerland, Vikas Swarup, secretary (West), MEA, described Pakistan as the epicentre of global terrorism.

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Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable sportswomen, on Wednesday announced her retirement from tennis.

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The situation in the riot-hit northeast Delhi "is under control", National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said after he held a meeting with senior officials of the Delhi Police and visited some of the affected areas on Wednesday afternoon. At least 22 people have been killed and over 200 injured in communal violence that broke out in northeast Delhi three days ago. Jaffrabad, Maujpur, Babarpur, Yamuna Vihar, Bhajanpura, Chand Bagh, Shiv Vihar are among the areas mainly affected by the riots.

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The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the police to take "conscious decision" with respect to lodging of FIRs against alleged hate speeches by three BJP leaders in connection with the CAA violence and convey by Thursday.

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India skipper Virat Kohli lost the top spot in the ICC Test Player Rankings after managing only 21 runs in the first Test which his side lost to New Zealand by 10 wickets in Wellington. Kohli's slump meant Australia's Steve Smith was back on top of the list for the eighth time after first occupying the top position in June 2015.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed for peace and brotherhood on Wednesday in the wake of the violent clashes in Delhi. "Peace and harmony are central to our ethos. I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times. It is important that there is calm and normalcy is restored at the earliest," he added.

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Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said that the Union government is responsible for the prevailing violent situation in Delhi and demanded the resignation of home minister. Without naming Amit Shah, Sonia Gandhi said: "The Union home minister must take responsibility for violence in Delhi and should resign".

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Trent Boult and Tim Southee have exposed the chinks in Prithvi Shaw's armour but India skipper Virat Kohli is ready to wait and watch before any corrective analysis as he does not see a pattern in the young opener's dismissals so far.

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“Agar mere saamne koi mar jaata, toh bahut dukh hota hamesha... (had anyone died in front of me, it would have hurt me forever),” head constable Deepak Dahiya (31) told TOI on Tuesday. A day earlier, Dahiya had come face to face with a rioter, who pointed a pistol at him even as he himself stood defiant with just a lathi in hand.

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Even as five families were grieving at the loss of their loved ones in the violence in northeast Delhi on Monday, there were many injured who had been admitted to various hospitals in a critical condition. On Tuesday, some of them breathed their last, raising the death toll to 13.

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Communal violence over the amended citizenship law continues to escalate in northeast Delhi. So far, thirteen people have lost their lives in the violence as police struggle to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:

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In the wake of the passing of the CAA, the Union home affairs ministry has issued a model detention centre manual to Maharashtra, a senior bureaucrat said. The state government is in the process of taking possession of a temporary detention centre while the process of identifying land for a permanent detention centre is on, the bureaucrat said.

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Perfect for cold nights, this savory and comforting chicken pot pie is surprisingly not a calorie bomb.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signalled immediate launch of negotiations for a free trade agreement with India with his administration expected to kick off the process through the mandated 90-day notice to the US Congress over the next few days. ​​​​The move will come along with legal vetting of what is expected to be a $10 billion “limited trade deal.”

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Heavy deployment of Delhi Police personnel and paramilitary forces like Rapid Action Force and CRPF was visible in the riot-hit areas amidst announcements that shoot-at-sight orders had been issued and curfew imposed though there was no official word on this. Some 35 companies of central armed police forces were deployed in the affected areas.

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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar clarified in the assembly that the Centre had sought feedback from all states on NPR, but he took the opportunity to also communicate his government’s stand on the NRC. “The Bihar government has communicated to the Centre that the NPR format should be the same as it was in 2010, and only the transgender column should be added to it. We have also communicated that the NRC is not needed in Bihar,” he said.

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Smoke billowed in the air and mobs roamed unchecked through the streets, burning shops, pelting stones and threatening locals, as fresh violence tore through northeast Delhi, killing six more people on Tuesday and taking the toll in the communal clashes over the amended citizenship law to 13.

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Every child deserves to be part of a loving family, and establishing a secure legal relationship known as parentage between parents and their children is critical to the well-being of all families. This provides stability and security for children and allows parents to care for their children, including making important medical decisions. For LGBTQ+ families, co-parent adoption ensures that parents have a secure legal relationship to their child.

What is co-parent adoption?

Co-parent adoption (also called “second parent adoption”) is the legal process of adopting a partner’s biological or legal child, when a person is not biologically or legally related to the child. This may be the case if the parents used donated sperm or eggs to create their family, or if one partner had children prior to the relationship, either through adoption or biological means. Co-parent adoption can be used to establish a legal relationship in any of these cases. (This post focuses on families created with donated sperm or eggs.)

Why is co-parent adoption important?

Because adoption decrees must be honored in all US states and jurisdictions, they are the best way to ensure that the legal status of both parents is recognized. Birth certificates are not considered as legally strong as adoption decrees. If a co-parent is on a state birth certificate due to marriage, but hasn’t legally adopted their child, the co-parent might not be treated as a legal parent outside of the state where the child was born. This may be critical in certain situations, such as when a child needs emergency health care.

Why is co-parent adoption especially important for families with same-gender parents?

Because of outdated assumptions about parents and families, the parental rights of same-gender parents may be questioned more often than those of a family with a mother and father — even when one parent is not genetically related to the child.

Consider the following scenario: A married same-gender female couple has a baby using sperm from a donor. Both mothers are listed as parents on their child’s birth certificate because they are married to one another. When the child is 5 years old, the family is traveling in another US state and there is a car accident. The gestational mother and child are both hurt. While the gestational mother is in surgery and unable to give consent, time-sensitive medical decisions must be made about their child. In the state the family is visiting, the nongestational mother’s legal relationship to her child is questioned, because she did not give birth to the child and that state does not honor a birth certificate with two mothers listed as the parents. Because the hospital questions the nongestational mother’s right to consent for her child’s treatment, the doctors decide the course of treatment.

All states must honor an adoption decree, so the nongestational mother in this scenario would be able to make medical decisions for her child if she had adopted the child through co-parent adoption.

And even though some states now allow unmarried parents to sign a Voluntary Acknowledgment of Parentage so they can both be on their child’s birth certificate, most unmarried parents also need to complete a co-parent adoption to ensure that the nongestational parent has a legal relationship to their child.

Is co-parent adoption an option for same-gender parents in every state?

Fewer than 20 US states and territories currently permit co-parent adoptions for same-gender parents. In those states, the process varies widely. In Massachusetts, the paperwork is simple enough that parents can file it themselves without the help of a lawyer. In Rhode Island, a family lawyer must file the paperwork, and the nongestational parent must complete numerous steps before the whole family goes to court. Required steps might include: a physical exam; submission of tax returns; fingerprinting for a criminal background check; character letters; a lengthy questionnaire about the parent’s own childhood and parenting beliefs; an advertisement posted in a newspaper to find the donor; and a visit from a social worker to assess the safety of the family’s home.

The co-parent adoption process creates numerous barriers for LGBTQ+ families. Co-parent adoptions may not be financially feasible for some families. The process may also be psychologically difficult, especially if a nongestational parent has planned for the birth of their child and cared for them since birth. To have to prove their commitment to their child may feel unnecessary and invasive. Having a social worker visit the family’s home may make both parents feel vulnerable.

Improving co-parent adoption laws

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and others are working to legalize co-parent adoptions in states where it is not yet available, and simplify the process in states where it is available. As one example, a group of parents in Rhode Island is currently working to simplify the co-parent adoption process to make it more attainable for families. You can help these efforts by

• educating yourself about laws on parentage and co-parent adoption in your state
• writing letters to state legislators or testifying at the statehouse when co-parent adoption laws are being considered
• sharing your story if you have gone through the co-parent adoption process, or faced barriers to securing a legal relationship to your child
• providing emotional or financial support to families going through the co-parent adoption process.

For more information

National Center for Lesbian Rights

Family Equality Council

Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys can help with finding a qualified adoption lawyer

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India is preparing to evacuate a large group of its citizens, who are stuck in China's coronavirus-hit Wuhan city, by a special IAF plane, which is expected to land there with relief medical supplies on Wednesday.

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"The American people stand strongly with a sovereign and wonderful India - the vision of the great Mahatma Gandhi. This is a tremendous honour!" wrote US Prez Donald Trump in the visitor's book after paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat on Tuesday. Trump, along with First Lady Melania Trump, laid a wreath at the memorial and observed a minute of silence.

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Donald Trump will meet President Kovind and PM Modi in Delhi on the last day of his India visit. Several delegation level talks and bilateral agreements are lined up for the day. Stay with TOI for live updates

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The man who fired multiple rounds during violent clashes in northeast Delhi was detained by the police on Monday evening. The man was identified as Mohammed Shahrukh who was caught on camera confronting a lone policeman. He then opened multiple rounds of fire with a crowd of hundred egging him on. He even pointed the gun at the cop’s face point-blank.

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In his opening remarks at Motera Stadium, Modi described Trump as a man who "thinks big". "He has worked hard to realise the American dream, which is evident to the whole world. Today, we welcome the entire Trump family," he said.

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Ask a smoker what they get out of cigarettes and they are likely to talk about pleasure, contentment, and an overall good feeling. Nicotine, the active ingredient in cigarettes, is a stimulant. Used in low doses like those delivered by combustible cigarettes, stimulants activate the nervous system, resulting in enhanced arousal and alertness. Nicotine binding in the limbic system — the part of the brain that houses the pleasure and reward center — releases dopamine, resulting in feelings of euphoria. These effects combine to give smokers a boost in their mood.

In this context, new research from a team at Harvard University, that found that when smokers feel sad they reach for cigarettes and inhale longer and deeper, is not surprising. Cigarettes are a “solution” to the “problem” of sadness that smokers seem to learn to use effectively. This new research is the first to show that sadness elicits nicotine use much more than other negative emotions, and that sad feelings are not only associated with smoking, but can actually cause it.

Smoking may blunt an adaptive and necessary emotion

Sadness is a basic emotion, typically felt in response to loss. The experience of sadness and the underlying neurobiology is universal. Sadness that is too intense or too prolonged — i.e., depression — is a disorder that results in dysfunction. But normal sadness has an adaptive function: people experiencing sadness focus their attention internally and become better problem solvers.

The expression of sadness is physiologically determined. Humans can reliably read sadness on each other’s faces independent from cultural cues, and these signals provoke empathy from others — another benefit to the individual who is sad. In this regard sadness, while unpleasant, has its upsides; its universality is an indication of its survival advantage.

While smokers get immediate relief from sadness with a cigarette, that may come at a cost if they also lose these adaptive benefits. “Treatment” of sad emotional states with nicotine over time may also impair innate restorative responses, just as treatment of chronic pain with opioids results in many patients experiencing hyperalgesia, a pathologically heightened response to painful stimuli. Indeed, this may help to explain the association between smoking and depression.

Part of maturing is learning to manage emotions

Compared with adults, adolescents experience emotions more strongly; with maturity they transition from the emotional reactivity typical of this age group to the more tempered presentation of adults. When it comes to sadness, reactivity and response are age-dependent: the triggering content of sadness is less tightly coupled with physiologic responses in the young compared to mature adults. Experience appears to be a crucial component of the maturational process.

What happens when adolescents use nicotine to blunt their sadness?

Does smoking interrupt emotional maturation, making young smokers susceptible to depression? Does disruption in emotional maturity make adolescent smokers more likely to use other drugs? The short answer to all of these questions is that we do not know, but there is reason to be concerned, because we do know that smoking is associated with increased risk of depression, marijuana use, binge drinking, and use of other drugs including opioids. Since most smokers start using cigarettes during their teen years, these questions have real salience.

After 20 years of dramatic decline in the rates of smoking among high school students, and a more gradual decline among adults, e-cigarettes and vaping devices have begun to reverse these trends. The new findings demonstrating the linkage between sadness and smoking should give us all pause. While the health impacts of smoking have been well documented over the past 50 years, we are still learning about the impacts of nicotine.

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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not attend the official banquet hosted by President Ram Nath Kovind in honour of US President Donald Trump on February 25, sources said. Singh had earlier accepted the invite but expressed his inability to attend the same on Monday.

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There was a major violence in North East Delhi. According to the MHA, this entire violence appears to be orchestrated with an eye on Donald Trump's visit to Delhi on Tuesday. However, MHA is monitoring the situation. The clashes broke out between pro and anti-CAA demonstrations when the two sides pelted stones at each other. Tension escalated in Jafrabad and Maujpur areas after protesters torched at least two houses and a fire tender during the clashes between pro and anti-CAA groups. A Delhi cop was killed during the clashes over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Maujpur in Delhi on Monday. The Delhi Police is constantly in touch with the MHA regarding the situation.

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Trump, accompanied by his wife, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, arrived here from Ahmedabad. The Taj Mahal, which was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal who died in 1631, has been refurbished for the visit.

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The US has strongly pitched for becoming India’s “premier defence partner” by providing it with the most advanced weapon systems “feared” across the globe, ahead of the inking of two more military helicopter deals worth $ 3 billion, which will take the total value of lucrative Indian arms deals bagged by Washington just since 2007 over the $20 billion mark.

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A police head constable was killed and several others were injured during clashes over CAA in northeast Delhi's Maujpur area on Monday afternoon. Police have imposed prohibitory orders at ten locations in the area. Stay with TOI for all the live updates:

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Situation is deteriorating in Maujpur, Jafrabad, Seelampur with anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests. Stone-pelting between pro and anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters started at these places with people from both sides pelting stones at each other. Police personnel deployed at the spot lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the rampaging mob. Hundreds of people from both groups are still on the road and senior officers of Delhi Police are trying to bring the situation under control through dialogue. The miscreants also pelted stones at some of the homes. Maujpur had witnessed massive stone-pelting on Sunday (February 23) too.

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"The United States and India are firmly united in our iron-clad resolve to defend our citizens from the threat of radical Islamic terrorism," said US Prez Donald Trump at 'Namaste Trump' event. He said that his administration has taken a tough stand against the ISIS and asserted that their caliphate is "100% destroyed". He also hailed his strong border controls.

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A man opened fire at a policeman in Jaffrabad area of Delhi on Monday afternoon. In Maujpur area, clashes broke out between pro and anti-CAA groups in the morning. Stay with TOI for all the live updates:

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Addressing the 'Namaste Trump' event at the Motera Stadium, Trump also announced that the US will seal defence deals worth $3 billion on Tuesday. Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be holding delegation-level official talks on Tuesday in New Delhi.

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PM Narendra Modi said ties between India and the US are no longer just another partnership but have touched far greater heights. Welcoming US president Donald Trump at the 'Namaste Trump' event at Motera stadium here, he said a "new history" is being created.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the US President Donald Trump on Monday as he arrived in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on his first official visit to India in a bid to strengthen ties between the two countries.

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Virat Kohli is not unduly perturbed by his relatively low run of scores on the tour of New Zealand as the premier batsman feels analysing too much can unnecessarily clutter his mind.

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They hail from vastly different backgrounds — Donald Trump, son of a property tycoon while Narendra Modi, son of a poor tea-seller. Yet the two teetotallers share striking similarities. A virtual cult of personality has emerged around both of them. Both promote their countries' nationalist and trade protectionist movements and have views about immigrants.

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US President Donald Trump will arrive in Ahmedabad today with his wife Melania Trump for the first leg of his maiden India trip. Trump, who is also accompanied by daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner and top brass of his administration, will get a taste of India's cultural potpourri during his Gujarat itinerary. Stay updated with Times of india to get all the live updates.

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A sharp spell of bowling by Tim Southee set up a 10-wicket victory for New Zealand before lunch on the fourth day of the first Test against India on Monday. Southee took 4/20 on the final morning as he raced through the India tail to leave them all out for 191. It left the Black Caps a mere nine runs to beat the world's top-ranked side.

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Fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari who is wanted in many heinous crimes, including murder and extortion, was brought in the early hours of Monday from Senegal via France to Bengaluru, police said. The gangster was nabbed in South Africa in a joint operation by the SA police and Senegal security agencies and was later extradited to Senegal, said police sources.

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The new Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad is set to welcome US President Donald Trump with Prime Minister Narendra Modi playing host and over a lakh people expected in the arena for the ‘Namaste Trump’ event.

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India responded almost immediately with MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar saying the precautions taken by India were in accordance with the WHO’s advisory about the outbreak of coronavirus infection, which was a global public health emergency.

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Jafrabad — which was tense through Sunday as over a thousand men and women had gathered under the Metro station and blocked the main road to protest against the amended citizenship law — erupted when a group of pro-CAA protesters reached the Maujpur-Baburpur Metro station, less than a kilometre from Jafrabad, around 3.30pm.

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On Sunday, former junior minister for planning and development in J&K and former Congress MLA from Bandipora Usman Majid, who is part of the proposed outfit, resigned from Congress and held a rally in Bandipora, the first in J&K since Article 370 was nullified.

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Ceasefire violations by Pakistan has increased manifold to push armed terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir and sabotage peace, DGP Dilbag Singh said on Sunday, asserting that the security grid is strong enough to foil the neighbouring nation's designs.

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US President Donald Trump on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is his "friend" and he is looking forward to visit India. “I look forward to being with the people of India. We are going to have many millions and millions of people. It's a long trip. I get along very well with Prime Minister Modi. He is a friend of mine,” Trump told reporters outside the White House before boarding Marine One for the Joint Base Andrews.

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Clashes broke out between two groups of people near Jaffrabad in northeast Delhi on Sunday evening where a large number of people had gathered to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Police fired tear gas shells as members of the two groups pelted stones at each other in Maujpur.

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Ahead of his visit, US President Donald Trump made his intentions clear, accusing India of “hitting” the US “very hard” with high import duties. He had previously called India “tariff king” as his administration drove a hard bargain to restore preferential tariffs through the generalised system of preferences scheme, a facility that was withdrawn last June.

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Fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari has been arrested in South Africa and being brought to India by a team of officials, including senior IPS officers from Karnataka, a police official said on Sunday. Pujari, wanted in many cases including extortion & murder & on the run for over 15 years, was deported to Senegal, from where he had jumped bail last year, and extradited.

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India were 144/4 in their 2nd innings at stumps on Day 3 of the first Test against New Zealand in Wellington. India still trail New Zealand by 39 runs with six wickets in hand. Ahinkya Rahane 25* and Hanuma Vihari 15* were at the crease at the close of play. Earlier, New Zealand posted a good first innings total of 348 with a lead of 183.

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A person posing as a doctor walking around the corridors of Delhi’s Northern Central Railway Hospital is greeted by a fake job agent and escorts a railway job applicant to an isolated spot to take blood samples. “We will do the rest,” the candidate is told.

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PM Modi is addressing the nation in his monthly Mann Ki Baat address, the second of the year. Stay with TOI for live updates.

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US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was looking forward to being with his "great friends" in India next week as he retweeted a short video in which his face was superimposed on the hit movie-character Baahubali, showing the president as a great saviour bringing peace to his kingdom.

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Fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari, who had jumped bail and gone missing after being arrested in Senegal in January last year, was rearrested from South Africa early on Saturday. The arrest was made from a distant village in South Africa by the Senegal authorities in a joint operation with India’s Research and Analysis Wing and Mangaluru police.

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The exploration works of the GSI for gold was not satisfactory and the results were not encouraging to come up with major resources for gold in Sonbhadra district, he added. Sonbhadra district mining officer K K Rai had said on Friday that the gold deposits were found in Son Pahadi and Hardi areas of the district.

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Nationalism and the slogan of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' are being misused to construct a "militant and purely emotional" idea of India that excludes millions of residents and citizens, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday, in an apparent attack on the BJP.

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Congress leader Manish Tewari on Saturday said Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray "requires a briefing" on the Citizenship Amendment Rules-2003 to understand how the NPR is the basis of the NRC.

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Ishant Sharma joined his pace partner Mohammed Shami in responding to those who have been critical of Jasprit Bumrah's barren run that started during the ODI leg of the New Zealand tour. "I don't think anyone doubts Boom's ability. Since his debut, what he has achieved for India, I don't think anyone should raise any questions," said Ishant.

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A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed a plea by one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case claiming he has mental illness and needs treatment.

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Tihar jail authorities Saturday termed as a "bundle of distorted facts" the claim by one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder that he is suffering from mental illness.

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Currently, passengers from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore and Japan are screened at 21 designated airports in the country for a possible exposure to the novel coronavirus. The decision was taken during a review meeting chaired by the Cabinet Secretary to take a stock of the status, actions taken and preparedness of states and UTs regarding management of novel coronavirus (COVID19) here on Saturday, the Union Heath Ministry said.

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The rule of law is probably the "most fundamental feature" of modern constitutions and its success depends on how judiciaries across the world respond to emerging challenges, Chief Justice S A Bobde said on Saturday. Speaking at an Judge's conference at the Supreme Court, CJI Bobde also stressed on the need for citizens to perform their legal duties.

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The most latest Global Threat Index shows that cyber-criminals are exploiting interest in the global epidemic to spread malicious activity, with several spam campaigns relating to the outbreak of the virus. Since the Coronavirus outbreak, Check Point has observed a noticeable number of emails and new websites registered with domain names related to the virus.

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