Anti Caa Protests
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India TV Exclusive: Anti-CAA protests spread further in Delhi; buses vandalised in Jafrabad area
India | Dec 17, 2019, 04:02 PM ISTDemonstrators staging a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in north-east Delhi’s Jafrabad area pelted stones at the Delhi Police personnel and set on fire a police motorcycle
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'Like Jallianwala Bagh', Uddhav Thackeray slams government for Jamia police action
India | Dec 17, 2019, 02:44 PM ISTMaharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has slammed the government for the police action in Jamia Millia Islamia University after anti-CAA protests broke out in and around the university. "What happened at Jamia Millia Islamia, is like Jallianwala Bagh. Students are like a Yuva Bomb. So we request the Centre not to do what it is doing with the students," ANI quoted Thackeray as saying.
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How major Indian newspapers reacted to nationwide anti-CAA protests
India | Dec 17, 2019, 02:04 PM ISTAs universities across the country witnessed massive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, several incidents of police brutality were also reported, here are the front-page stories from India's major newspapers
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Kerala downs shutters as anti-Citizenship protests spreads across country; students in epicenter
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:38 PM ISTThe dawn to dusk statewide shutdown called by around 33 organisations on Tuesday in Kerala to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, began with the police taking around 100 people into preventive custody, from various parts of the state. Several such protests have been seen across the country with the students being at the epicentre of the anti-CAA protests.
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SC to consider plea for probe into violence during anti-CAA protests
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:26 PM ISTThe Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider a plea seeking a CBI or a court-monitored SIT probe into the violence during protests against the amended Citizenship Act across the country. The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde, which said, "We will take care of the violence".
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No bullet fired by police during protests at Jamia: MHA officials
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:27 PM ISTNo bullet was fired by police during violent protests against the amended Citizenship Act at Jamia Milia Islamia University on Sunday, Home Ministry officials said. There have been allegations that police fired bullets on protesters during the agitation at Jamia.
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Won’t act as trial court, approach HC first: SC on anti-CAA violence in Murshidabad
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:28 PM ISTHearing a plea on the violence over the citizenship act in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, the apex court said that it couldn’t take note of everything happening in the country
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DMK leaders protest against CAA in Tamil Nadu
India | Jan 02, 2020, 01:28 PM ISTThe principal opposition in Tamil Nadu DMK on Tuesday staged protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at district headquarters.
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Anti-CAA protest: No students among 10 people arrested in Jamia violence
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:29 PM ISTTen people have been arrested in connection with the violence that broke out Sunday (Dec 15) during a showdown between the police and students protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act near Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi. None of those arrested in the connection with violence is students
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Anti-CAA protest: SC hearing on pleas against police action on Jamia, AMU students today
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:29 PM ISTThe Supreme Court will today hear petitions alleging Delhi police atrocities on students holding protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act at the Jamia Millia Islamia and the Aligarh Muslim University. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde on Monday took serious note of rioting and destruction of public property during protests across the country and said: "violence must stop immediately".
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Protests on CAA deeply distressing: PM Narendra Modi
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:31 PM ISTSunday witnessed a massive police-students face-off in Delhi after residents and commuters in the heart of the national capital ran for their lives as a raging mob of almost 1,000 people protested against the Citizenship Act.