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Here's everything that transpired during the course of the day...
Sanjay Dutt is set to walk out of jail on February 27.The Maharashtra government has remitted the Bollywood actor's sentence in the Mumbai serial blasts case. Sources indicated that barring last-minute glitches, Sanjay would be released after completing the remaining 42-month period of his sentence.
Delhi High Court has asked the state government why the odd-even car formula should stay beyond a week."What is the need to run odd-even scheme after a week?" the court asked. "You will have to admit that you don't have enough public transport to ferry the public." The court also sought a report from the Arvind Kejriwal government on changes in the level of pollution in the national capital since the scheme came into effect on January 1.
A former top White House official has said ISI is responsible for recent terror attack in Pathankot.Bruce Riedel, who worked in the National Security Council of the White House and was among the few present at the Bill Clinton-Nawaz Sharif meeting in 1999 during Kargil war, said the attack is designed to prevent any detente between India and Pakistan after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise Christmas Day visit to Pakistan.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office was sealed due to a suspicious package in the premise.Four plastic yellow postal crates were left outside the entrance, a witness said. "We are investigating a suspicious package," a spokesman for Germany's Federal Police informed members of the press.
Reports suggest Twitter is planning a 10,000 character limit for tweetsAn expansion of the limit to 10,000 characters would allow a tweet of more than 1,000 words with spaces between words and punctuation. For comparison, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words, and President John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech was 1,366 words.
