Students of Jadavpur University in Kolkata defended the right of Kashmiris 'to seek azaadi' at a cultural event on campus held to protest the arrest of JNU students in Delhi on charges of sedition, reports the Hindustan Times.

Former Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman sang at the event that was attended by more than 500 students and faculty members, as well as filmmaker Aniket Chattopadhyay and human rights activist Sujato Bhadra.

JU students had recently chanted slogans in support of Afzal Guru, who had been hanged in the 2001 Parliament attack case, and Yakub Memon, who had been hanged in the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts case.

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice AK Sikri has asked Karisma Kapoor and Sunjay Kapur to settle their differences amicably, reports the Hindustan Times. The bench said it would help them do so at a personal hearing on 8 March.

The SC is hearing a plea filed by Sunjay Kapur that seeks to transfer the divorce petition from Mumbai to Delhi as gangster Ravi Pujari has allegedly warned Kapur against entering Mumbai.

The bench advised the two to settle their dispute at the Supreme Court itself, to which counsels for both parties agreed.

The BJP government plans to bring a Constitutional amendment to increase reservations for women in gram panchayats and urban local bodies from 33 per cent to 50 per cent.

To push this through, the panchayati raj ministry submitted its note to the cabinet secretariat on 10 February and the urban development ministry on 13 February, said sources. The government wants the amendment in place during this session of Parliament apparently because Prime Minister Narendra Modi would like to showcase the change during the celebrations for his second year in power.

No human remains were found in what the National Security Guard handed over to forensic investigators as the remains of a terrorist killed in the terrorist attack on the Pathankot air base on 2 January, reports The Indian Express.

The 'terrorist's remains' were taken from the airmen's billet where NSG commandos had fought for 48 hours, claiming that two terrorists had been firing from there. The building eventually caught fire.

National Investigation Agency officers say they cannot explain how NSG commandos were injured outside the airmen's billet if there were no terrorists inside.

The Gujarat government sold 422 acres of land at Amreli, near the Gir forest reserve, to business associates of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel's daughter, Anar Patel, at Rs 15 per square metre, showing a 91.6 per cent discount on the government's stamp duty rate of Rs 180 per square metre, reports The Economic Times.

However, the cow protection group, Muralidhar Gau Seva Trust, which had also applied for land in the same area, was quoted Rs 671 per square metre when the stamp duty rate for that plot was Rs 190 per square metre.

An investigation by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in 2004 had established the identity of a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative killed in the alleged fake encounter in which Ishrat Jahan was shot dead, reports The Indian Express.

The J&K police on 26 June, 2004, had arrested a man they called "Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, Shahid Mehmood". Mehmood's revelations during interrogation were later used in affidavits by Gujarat and the Centre Ministry to establish that one of the three men killed with Ishrat was "Amjad Ali alias Salim alias Babar, a Pakistani terrorist".

The forensic reports of the seven videos that showed JNU students allegedly raising anti-national slogans on 9 February show that three have been doctored, reports The Indian Express. The videos had been sent by the Delhi government for examination to Truth Lab in Hyderabad in an effort to sort out the claims and counter-claims of different parties about the incident.

The three doctored videos showed serious tampering and the audio inclusion of 'very special words', say sources.

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif's advisor on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz said that talks with India are likely to resume after a team visits Pathankot in the next few days, to investigate the deadly attack on the Indian Air Force Base.

According to the Dawn, an official transcript released quoted Aziz as saying that the foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries could be rescheduled soon after the visit.

After a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, Aziz expressed his disappointment over the current state between the two neighbours, saying it was unfortunate that the Pathankot attack disrupted the resumption of secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi backed former home minister P Chidambaram amid the political storm raised by undersecretary RVS Mani's controversial revelations in the Ishrat Jahan case. While addressing her party MPs today, she said that Chidambaram has already explained his position in the case. "Chidambaram ji has already explained. We have been targeted since we were in government," Gandhi said at a Congress' strategy meeting in New Delhi.

In a revelation that could disrupt the functioning of the Parliament, Ministry of Home Affairs, RVS Mani claimed yesterday that he was pressurised to file the second affidavit in the Supreme Court in which the reference to the LeT terror group naming Ishrat Jahan was dropped. Chidambaram had clarified on 29 February that the revised affidavit was absolutely correct, adding that he accepts full responsibility for the affidavit as a minister.

Republican and Democratic frontrunners, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton bagged seven states each on Super Tuesday.

Trump won in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, but also captured more moderate Massachusetts and Vermont. Ted Cruz won Texas and Oklahoma while Marco Rubio won Minnesota

On the Democratic side of affairs, Clinton won Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, Massachusetts, and the South Pacific territory of American Samoa. Bernie Sanders swept Vermont, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Colorado.

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Modifying the seven conditions put forward by Maharashtra Police to grant licences to dance bars in the state, the Supreme Court rejected the criteria that there should be live CCTV footage of dance performances which the area police should have access to.

However, the court said that CCTV cameras can be installed for security purposes at the entrances.

The court has also asked Maharashtra to grant licences to dance bar owners within 10 days after they comply with the modified conditions.