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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has postponed his visit to West Bengal, his office said on Friday. Mr Shah was to attend several programmes as the BJP steps up its campaign in the state where assembly elections are expected to be held in April-May.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Somnath Bharti will remain the MLA from Delhi's Malviya Nagar constituency for now as a local court today suspended his sentence in an assault case.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Delhi climbed to 6,34,773 today as 249 more people tested positive for the disease while the positivity rate rose to 0.42 per cent, officials said.

More than 80 Delhi Police personnel were injured - many seriously so - on Tuesday after violent clashes with groups of farmers who broke police barricades and stormed into the city on Republic Day to hold a tractor rally in protest of the agriculture laws

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday appealed to its workers to reach the three main farmers' protest sites near Delhi - Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur - to support the agitation against the central agriculture laws, and alleged that the centre has been trying to "crush" the protests by unfair means.

A 31-year-old woman suffering from rare form of hereditary disease was operated through robotic surgery at a hospital in New Delhi.

A policeman was injured by a sword during clashes this afternoon at Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana, the epicenter of the two-month long farmer protest against three central laws.

A "very low-intensity" IED (improvised explosive device) was detonated near the Israeli embassy in the heart of central Delhi on Friday evening, the police have said, adding that no injuries or property damage had been reported

Delhi schools will reopen for Classes 9th and 11th from next Friday, Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia has announced.

The Delhi Police has registered a sedition case in connection with the violence at Red Fort during a tractor rally by farmers on Republic Day, officials said today.

Two farmers' rightsactivists, who were among the dozen anti-farm law protesters from Assam to have attended the Delhi farmers' tractor rally on January 26, have been arrested by the Guwahati police.

A group of over 200 people threw stones and vandalised tents erected by farmers at the Delhi-Haryana border in Singhu, the epicenter of farmers' protests since over two months. Two police personnel were injured, one of them by a sword. The sudden violence this afternoon at the protest site, which has been tense since the Republic Day violence, prompted the police to use tear gas shells and resort to lathi-charge. Farmers too appealed for calm.

The Connaught Place in the heart of the national capital will remain closed Tuesday in view of the ongoing tractor parade by farmers which turned violent at some places in the city, the New Delhi Traders Association said.

As protesting farmers breached barricades and changed their agreed route of a tractor rally to enter central Delhi on Republic Day, dozens of tractors rolled into the Red Fort.

A court has rejected the bail plea of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student and Pinjra Tod member Devangana Kalita, charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in a northeast Delhi riots case.

Weather update today: Dense fog enveloped Delhi and its neighbouring areas on Friday. Thick fog shrouded large tracts of the northern plains including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and hilly regions of West Bengal and Sikkim. Very dense fog has been reported at isolated pockets in northwest Madhya Pradesh as well.

Thousands of protesters broke through barricades, attacked policemen with sticks and vandalised a police vehicle after deviating from the agreed route of a farmers' tractor rally and reaching the heart of Delhi.

Weather update today: Dense fog enveloped Delhi and its neighbouring areas on Friday. Thick fog shrouded large tracts of the northern plains including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and hilly regions of West Bengal and Sikkim. Very dense fog has been reported at isolated pockets in northwest Madhya Pradesh as well.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Thursday said it will not be intimidated by the notices sent to its leaders by Delhi Police and alleged that the government is trying to put an end to the farmers' movement against agri laws by blaming it for the violence during the January 26 tractor rally.

The Delhi Police today appealed to the farmers to return to their protest site outside the borders by a designated route, pointing out that the break from the route in the morning has led to the widespread chaos and violence across the city. The rally, the police said, has led to loss of property and many police personnel were injured in the violence.

Delhi witnessed unprecedented scenes of chaos and violence on Tuesday - on the nation's 72nd Republic Day - as groups of farmers protesting the centre's agriculture laws clashed with police

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh has announced support to the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), the members of which are staging a protest against the Centre''s new farm laws at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border.

A tense night at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur saw cops first trying to drive farmers away from protest sites and then protesters returning after watching a widely-circulated video of a top leader of their agitation, Rakesh Tikait, breaking down and declaring tearfully that he was ready to "face bullets or kill himself". Rakesh Tikait's Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has called a "Mahapanchayat" or meeting amid a huge backlash over violence during their tractor rally on Tuesday. Some parts of the Delhi border have been closed to traffic. Last evening, the administration in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana ordered cops to remove thousands of farmers who have been protesting at various points outside Delhi against three central laws for over two months.

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh has announced support to the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), the members of which are staging a protest against the Centre''s new farm laws at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border. The former Union minister has spoken to BKU president Naresh Tikait and spokesperson Rakesh Tikait, RLD vice president and his son Jayant Chaudhary said.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Thursday said it will not be intimidated by the notices sent to its leaders by Delhi Police and alleged that the government is trying to put an end to the farmers' movement against agri laws by blaming it for the violence during the January 26 tractor rally.