LIVE News Updates: Hundreds gather outside Delhi Police headquarters to protest against JNU violence

Hundreds of people on Sunday gathered outside the Delhi Police headquarters at ITO to protest against the attack on JNU students by masked goons and the alleged police inaction during the attack.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday reached AIIMS Trauma Centre to meet the injured students and teachers from JNU who have been hospitalised following violence at the university.

Activist and Swaraj Abhiyan president Yogendra Yadav was on Sunday manhandled by ABVP goons outside JNU campus in the police and media presence as he reached the university.

Iraq's parliament has voted to expel the US military from the country.

Lawmakers voted Sunday in favour of a resolution that calls for ending foreign military presence in the country. The resolution's main aim is to get the US to withdraw some 5,000 US troops present in different parts of Iraq.

The vote comes two days after a US airstrike killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani inside Iraq, dramatically increasing regional tensions.

The Iraqi resolution specifically calls for ending an agreement in which Washington sent troops to Iraq more than four years ago to help in the fight against the Islamic State group.

The resolution was backed by most Shiite members of parliament, who hold a majority of seats.

Many Sunni and Kurdish legislators did not show up for the session, apparently because they oppose abolishing the deal.

A group of masked men, purportedly the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists, on Sunday barged into the JNU and brutally attcked students and teachers with sticks.

Several students and teachers including JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh got badly injured in the attack.

“SOS 🆘 A masked mob has entered JNU & is attacking students and faculty members with sticks. It's a murderous attack. The JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh is badly injured as are several teachers. Pl ask @DelhiPolice to act, call the police,” activist Kavita Krishnan tweeted in panic.

“Professors who were trying to protect us have been beaten up. These are unknown ABVP goons, not all are students, they have covered their faces, and they are moving towards the hotels near the West Gate. Stay alert. Make human chains. Protect each other,” JNUSU tweeted.

The US-led coalition on Sunday announced it was "pausing" its fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, where US troops training local forces have faced a spate of rocket attacks.

"This has limited our capacity to conduct training with partners and to support their operations against Daesh (IS) and we have therefore paused these activities, subject to continuous review," the coalition said in a statement.

On Saturday, the coalition said its forces in Baghdad and in an airfield north of the capital had faced new attacks, bringing the total rocket strikes in the last two months to 13.

Rain in Guwahati on Sunday delayed the start of first India vs Sri Lanka T20I. India have won the toss and elected to bowl first.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday spoke with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on the situation dveloping in the region after a US drone strike killed Iran's top general Qasem Suleimani.

After his talks with Zarif, Jaishankar noted that the developments have taken a "very serious turn".

"India remains deeply concerned about the levels of tension. We agreed to remain in touch," Jaishankar said.

The police deployment at the protest site in Jamia Nagar’s Shaheen Bagh has increased. People from the area have been staging a sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment act (CAA) and NRC for the last 20 days.

Tension gripped the area after the police build up and locals from other areas of Okhla also gathered at the protest site.

The road going to Badarpur that passes from Shaheen Bagh has been blocked by the protesters.

Two wanted terrorists have entered the state of UP and there is information that they may attempt to flee to Nepal, says Ashutosh Kumar, IG, Basti Range

There is heightened tension in the Middle East that may result in security risks to US citizens abroad. US Embassy personnel are instructed to remain aware of their surroundings,avoid protests & monitor local media outlets.

Two suspected ISIS terrorists have entered Uttar Pradesh, following which an alert has been sounded along the India-Nepal border in Maharajganj, Kushinagar and Siddharth Nagar districts, a top police official said on Sunday.

"It has come to the fore that two wanted terrorists Abdul Samad and Iliyas can try to enter Nepal from Uttar Pradesh," IG (Basti range) Ashutosh Kumar said on Sunday.

Acting on this, the alert was sounded in Maharajganj, Kushinagar and Siddharth Nagar districts along the border, he said.

Iran's army chief said on Sunday that Washington lacked the "courage" to initiate a conflict after US President Donald Trump threatened to hit dozens of targets inside the Islamic republic.

"I doubt they have the courage to initiate" a conflict in which the Americans threatened to strike 52 targets, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.

BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya is among the nearly 350 party cadres who have been booked here in Madhya Pradesh after a video purportedly showing him 'threatening' government officials went viral on social media, police said on Sunday.

The video, apparently shot during a protest organised by the BJP in Residency area of Indore on Friday, showed Vijayvargiya saying, "Our Sangh (RSS) leaders are (here), otherwise (we) would have set Indore on fire today."

The BJP organised the protest here on Friday, alleging that city officials were biased and taking "politically motivated" action against party workers.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to seek apology from the public for putting those protesting in anti-citizenship law demonstrations behind bars without thorough investigation.

She dubbed it as "highly shameful and condemnable".

In a tweet in Hindi, the BSP national president said, "In Uttar Pradesh, especially in Bijnor, Sambhal, Muzzafarnagar, Meerut, Firozabad and other districts, innocent people have been sent to jail for protesting against the CAA/NRC without an investigation. This issue has also been raised by the media and is highly shameful and condemnable."

Pavan K Varma,JD(U) in a letter to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar: CAA-NRC combine is a direct attempt to divide Hindus and Muslims, and create social instability. I request you to take a stand against CAA-NPR-NRC scheme and reject its nefarious agenda to divide India.

Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Dev has written to heads of departments in the Delhi government, warning them against any delay in payment of salaries to contractual employees.

In his letter, the chief secretary said non-compliance of the order would be viewed seriously and appropriate action taken against the defaulting officers.

Heads of departments are required to send a certificate by the 20th of every month saying all contractual employees have been paid due wages pertaining to the previous month.

The Labour Department had also recently asked other departments to ensure timely-payment of wages to contractual employees of the Delhi government.

A tourist bus caught fire after hitting a parked lorry in Ranastalam Mandal of Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh, today. Six people have been injured in the incident. Fire has been brought under control.

A tide of mourners wept and beat their chests in the Iranian city of Ahvaz on Sunday, paying homage to top general Qasem Soleimani, after he was killed in a US strike in Baghdad.

"Death to America," they chanted at a mass gathering in the southwestern city, where Soleimani's remains arrived from Iraq before dawn, according to semi-official news agency ISNA.

Gujarat: GS Rathod, Superintendent of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital: In December 455 newborn were admitted in neonatal intensive care unit (ICU), of them 85 died.

Islamist militants from Somalia's Al-Shabaab group on Sunday launched an attack on a military base used by US and Kenyan forces in coastal Lamu, a government official said.

"There was an attack but they have been repulsed," Lamu Commissioner Irungu Macharia told AFP of the attack which was claimed by Al-Shabaab.

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani walks away when asked about reports of deaths of infants in hospitals in Rajkot and Ahmedabad.

We condemn it. Any such incident anywhere across globe must be condemned. We have been getting threats from US since years, we are facing it. We don't have enmity with anyone, but if someone acts against us, we know how to respond

They (Iran) attacked us, & we hit back. If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before, says US President Donald Trump

Hundreds of anti-war protesters rallied in Times Square of New York City (NYC), in the wake of a US airstrike near Baghdad International Airport, which killed an Iranian commander and resulted in Iran vowing to retaliate.

The protesters held signs that read "Jobs, healthcare, education, housing, human needs, not endless war," and "No war/sanctions on Iran!"

The protesters chanted "No justice, no peace. US out of the Middle East!" and "No war with Iran." They also marched down a stretch of Broadway, Xinhua news agency reported.

26 trains running late due to low visibility in the Northern Railway region.

One of the two persons injured when a portion of the Bardhaman Railway Station building in West Bengal collapsed, died on Sunday, an official said.

A portion of the two-storeyed station building of Bardhaman collapsed on Saturday evening.

"One of the two injured persons who were taken to the Bardhaman Medical College and Hospital, succumbed to his injuries," state minister Swapan Debnath said.

Rajasthan: Infant death toll in Kota's JK Lon Hospital rises to 110.

Maharashtra Ajit Pawar gets finance, Anil Dehmukh new Home minister.

Sharad Pawar-led NCP gets most of 'plum' portfolios.

Aaditya Thackeray to handle tourism, environment and protocol; Balasaheb Thorat gets revenue ministry.

Indore: Case registered against 350 people, including BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on charges of violation of section 144 and for protesting outside the residence of Divisional Commissioner Akash Tripathi.

Major pollutants PM 2.5 at 264 & PM 10 at 260, both in 'poor category' in Lodhi Road area in Delhi, according to the Air Quality Index (AQI) data.

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has approved the allocation of portfolios as proposed by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the US is targeting 52 sites in Iran and will hit them "very fast and very hard" if the Islamic republic attacks American personnel or assets.

In a tweet defending Friday's drone strike assassination of a top Iranian general in Iraq, Trump said 52 represents the number of Americans held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran for more than a year starting in late 1979.

Trump said some of these sites are "at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!" Trump took to Twitter after pro-Iran factions ramped up pressure on US installations across Iraq with missiles and warnings to Iraqi troops -- part of an outburst of fury over the killing of Soleimani, described as the second most-powerful man in Iran.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi: A decision has been taken to update the National Population Register (NPR) in 2020. Regarding this process, collection of data will be carried out from 15 to 28 May in Bihar.