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Amit Shah says opposition misleading, instigating people over CAA Home minister Amit Shah says opposition parties are lying on the Citizenship Amendment Act when they claim it will take away citizenship of the minorities in India during a public rally in Odisha on Friday. Shah’s attack on the opposition over the CAA comes amid a rising death toll in the three-day long communal violence in Delhi and a petition in court putting the focus on the role played by hate speeches delivered by politicians in the run up to the riots. “I want to tell the people of the country...

Please don’t preach us ‘rajdharma’: BJP hits back at Sonia Gandhi Hitting back at Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for reminding the Centre of its “rajdharma”, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Friday said she should not lecture the government when her own party’s decisions are questionable. He alleged that the communal violence in northeast Delhi was the result of Opposition’s “instigation”. “Sonia Gandhi, please don’t preach us rajdharma; your record is full of twists and turns,” the BJP leader said while speaking at a press conference in Delhi. Source: The Indian Express

S N Shrivastava appointed Delhi Police Commissioner, replaces Amulya Patnaik NEW DELHI : Senior IPS officer S N Shrivastava will be the next Delhi police commissioner, officials said on Friday. Incumbent Amulya Patnaik demits office on Saturday. Shrivastava’s name has been finalised for the next Delhi police commissioner, a Union Home Ministry official said, adding that he would take charge from Patnaik. SN Shrivastava was appointed as Special CP of the Delhi Police on Tuesday. Shrivastava was serving as the DG (Training) in Central Reserve Police Force. Source: Livemint

Maldives gets Amal Clooney to fight for Rohingyas at UN court The luxury tourist destination of the Maldives has hired prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent it at the UN’s highest court in seeking justice for Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims. The Maldivian government said Wednesday it will formally join the mainly Muslim African state of The Gambia in challenging Myanmar’s 2017 military crackdown that sent around 740,000 Rohingya fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh. Source: Hindustan Times

Reddit CEO: TikTok is ‘fundamentally parasitic’ TikTok is one of the hottest social media platforms but the CEO of Reddit had some harsh words for the popular app, calling it “fundamentally parasitic” at an event Wednesday. The comments from Reddit  CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman were some of the more controversial offered up during a panel discussion with former public policy exec Elliot Schrage and former Facebook VP of Product Sam Lessin. During a brief conversation about the feature innovations of TikTok, Huffman pushed back hard on the notion that Silicon Valley startups had something to learn from the app. Source: Techcrunch

Former ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale joins Ola NEW DELHI: Former Indian ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale has joined Ola, one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies, as senior adviser for corporate and international affairs. A former high commissioner to Pakistan and ex-ambassador to Bhutan, Bambawale is the second Indian foreign service officer to join the private sector after S Jaishankar. Source: Livemint

Pakistan’s Punjab govt. not to extend bail granted to Nawaz Sharif for treatment abroad Pakistan’s Punjab government on Tuesday decided not to extend the bail granted on medical grounds to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in London for treatment, according to media reports. Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat said the Punjab Cabinet decided that there was “no legal, moral or medical basis without any concrete proof” for the further extension of the bail to the 70-year-old leader. Source: The Hindu

Hampshire’s Bob Weighton set to be named world’s oldest man Bob Weighton, who was born on 29 March 1908, is expected to be named as the new record-holder following the death of a 112-year-old in Japan. Chitetsu Watanabe died on Sunday just days after being awarded a Guinness World Records certificate. Mr Weighton, from Alton, said: “I don’t really feel satisfied because it means someone else has died.” Source: BBC

Learn from Tiananmen Square massacre to handle the riots: Tathagata Roy Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy has tweeted to imply that lessons could perhaps be taken from the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre to handle the riots in parts of the national capital. Tweeting from his handle on Wednesday, Roy said: “Remember Tienanmen Square, Beijing in 1988? And how Deng Xiaoping handled it? Perhaps there is a lesson there on how to handle the engineered disturbances of NE Delhi! I’m sure all comrades will agree!” (Sic) Source: The Telegraph

Malaysia’s Anwar says group of MPs back him to become PM KUALA LUMPUR: Veteran Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim said Wednesday a group of lawmakers had backed him to become the country’s next prime minister days after Mahathir Mohamad (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mahathir-Mohamad)’s shock resignation. But his comments came moments after Mahathir, at 94 the world’s oldest leader, said that he wanted to form a unity government and was willing to return as premier. Source: Times of India