The Evening Wrap Welcome to The Evening Wrap, your guide to the day’s major news developments with concise analysis from The Hindu. Here are the day’s major developments No Big Deal When it comes to foreign policy, nothing matters more to U.S. President Donald Trump than a “very big” trade deal. But now it looks like a major deal with India is off the table. Mr Trump indicated today that a comprehensive trade agreement would have to wait, possibly till after the U.S. elections in November. His comments come days after U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer cancelled a trip to India aimed at finalising a ‘mini-trade deal’ that the two countries could have signed during Mr. Trump’s visit to India on February 24 and 25. “We can have a trade deal with India but I am saving the big deal for later on. We’re doing a very big trade deal with India…we’ll have it. I don’t know if it’ll be done before the elections but we’ll have a very big deal with India,” Mr. Trump told reporters. He added that he liked Prime Minister Modi a lot, and given his love for grand optics, was excited that seven million people would greet him on the way from the airport to the Motera cricket stadium in Ahmedabad, where he will address an event on February 24. The number, seven million, had apparently been conveyed to him by Mr Modi. For the record, Ahmedabad’s total population, as per the 2011 Census, was 5.6 million. To the Assembly Thousands of anti-CAA protesters gathered in Chennai for a long march, intending to lay siege to the Secretariat and demand that the Tamil Nadu Assembly pass a resolution stating that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR), and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will not be implemented. However, the protest was stopped on Wallajah Road near Chepauk stadium, and a small make-shift stage was erected for speakers. According to the Chennai Police, an estimated 30,000 protesters -- including members of the Federation of Tamil Nadu Islamic and Political Organisations -- took part. Other parts of the state also witnessed protests. Supreme Negotiation While on the subject of protests, today saw the first attempt by Supreme Court-appointed interlocutors Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandran, to convince the Shaheen Bagh protesters to move to an alternative site where no public roads are blocked. The women of Shaheen Bagh have been on a sit-in against the new citizenship law for over two months. While the interlocutors did not wish to engage with the protesters under media glare, the protesters demanded the media’s presence. “We do not mind if a 1,000 sites are created, but our limited concern is whether you could protest without blocking roads and entering public areas... With every right there comes a responsibility too,” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the Supreme Court had earlier observed. Fuelling Change The Press Trust of India reported that India will switch to the world’s cleanest petrol and diesel from April 1 as it leapfrogs straight from Euro-IV to Euro-VI emission-compliant fuels. This is a feat achieved in just three years and not seen in any of the large economies around the globe. India will join the select league of nations using petrol and diesel containing just 10 parts per million of sulphur, as it looks to cut vehicular emissions, said to be a big reason for the terrible air in most Indian cities. In Brief: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today claimed in the U.P. Legislative Assembly that not a single person was killed by police bullets during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act on December 19 and 20, 2019. Those who died were killed by the “bullets of rioters”, he said. At least 23 people were killed in the violence during the protests, and most of them died of bullet injuries. Two Chinese crew members of a ship that arrived from the COVID-19-hit China have been kept in isolation due to fever. The vessel itself has been “kept away from access”, the Chennai Port Trust said on Wednesday. The German Cabinet has approved a Bill that will require social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube to report certain forms of hate speech to the police. That’s it for this edition of The Evening Wrap. We’ll see you tomorrow! | 
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