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Kashmiri pandit group welcomes CAB, says entire nation 'stands with PM'
India | Dec 15, 2019, 05:12 PM IST"The passing of CAB by parliament is a resolve to ensure complete politico-cultural decolonisation of India. Decolonising Indian mind is a critical necessity for national integration," Convener of Panun Kashmir, Agnishekhar, told reporters in Jammu.
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Nitish Kumar, Prashant Kishor meet in Patna, close on the heels of CAB imbroglio
National | Dec 14, 2019, 11:20 PM ISTAfter a closed-door meeting with JD(U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here on Saturday, party vice-president Prashant Kishor, who had publicly criticised the party's support to the new citizenship law, said he stood by the "views I have expressed".
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Protests against citizenship law continue in Bengal, road and rail blockade at several places
India | Dec 14, 2019, 12:12 PM ISTThe National Highway 34, one of the arterial roads that connect north and south Bengal, was blocked in Murshidabad. Several other roads in the district were also blocked, Police said.
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AASU calls three-day mass satyagraha against CAA
India | Dec 14, 2019, 09:32 AM ISTAnnouncing the fresh agitation programme, AASU Chief Adviser Samujjal Bhattacharya coined the slogan "Repeal Citizenship Amendment Act or arrest me".
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Anti-CAA protesters torch railway stations, block roads in Bengal
India | Dec 14, 2019, 09:23 AM ISTThe protesters, carrying posters against the CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens, vandalised the Beldanga railway station of Eastern Railway, forcing the railway employees to flee to save their lives.
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US concerned about implications of CAB
World | Dec 14, 2019, 07:15 AM IST"One of India's great strengths is its Constitution. As a fellow democracy, we respect India's institutions, but are concerned about the implications of the CAB Bill," Sam Brownback, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, said in a tweet.
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Anti-CAA stir: After Japan PM's visit, Bangladesh cancels ministers' India trips
World | Dec 14, 2019, 06:59 AM ISTBangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday summoned Indian High Commissioner Riva Ganguly Das and protested against the attack on the convoy of Bangladeshi assistant high commissioner and vandalism of the Bangladesh mission in Guwahati, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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Citizenship protests: Internet services suspended in UP's Aligarh
India | Dec 13, 2019, 02:04 PM ISTThe administration has denied permission to BSP leader and Mayor Furqaan Ali, who wanted to hold a protest against the passage of the citizenship bill in Parliament, District magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh said.
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Congress urges PM to convene all-party meet on Assam situation
India | Dec 13, 2019, 01:01 PM ISTSpeaking during Zero Hour in the Upper House, Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said that the situation could have been avoided had the government not rushed into the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) which grants citizenship to illegal non-Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh ask India to enhance security for its Guwahati mission
World | Dec 13, 2019, 07:00 AM ISTTwo persons were killed on Thursday in police firing in Assam to quell protests against the citizenship bill with thousands descending on streets defying curfew as Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed his government was committed to safeguarding their rights.
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Want to assure brothers, sisters of Assam they have nothing to worry after CAB passage: PM Modi
India | Dec 12, 2019, 11:53 PM ISTIn a series of tweets, in both Assamese and English, the prime minister said he personally and the Central government are "totally committed to constitutionally safeguard the political, linguistic, cultural and land rights of the Assamese people as per the spirit of Clause 6."
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Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar Aazad vows to provide 'political alternative' to Dalits
National | Dec 12, 2019, 06:05 PM ISTThey have deceived B R Ambedkar, BSP founder Kanshi Ram and the Dalit community," he posted on Twitter. "By doing so, the BSP made Muslims feel unsafe and weakened the Dalit politics.
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CAB protestors defy curfew, AASU holds public meeting
India | Dec 12, 2019, 05:37 PM ISTHe also hit out at Asom Gana Parishad, BJP's alliance partner in th state, for "stabbing the people of Assam in the back" as its sole MP in Rajya Sabha Birendra Prasad Baishya had voted in favour of the bill.
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Northeast simmers with anti-CAB protests, 2-month-old baby dies on way to hospital
India | Dec 10, 2019, 10:11 PM ISTLarge parts of the northeast on Tuesday simmered with protests by students' unions and Left-democratic organisations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, with choked roads leaving an ailing two-month-old baby dead on way to hospital. A day before the divisive legislation, passed by the Lok Sabha, is tabled in the Upper House, normal life was paralysed in Assam's Brahmaputra Valley during the shutdown that was led by the All Assam Students' Union and the North East Students' Organisation (NESO).
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Citizenship Bill: Fadnavis says Shiv Sena under pressure, Congress welcomes Sena's fresh stance
National | Dec 10, 2019, 07:54 PM ISTFormer Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday questioned Shiv Sena's apparent flip-flop on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. Fadnavis advised Shiv Sena to not come under pressure from the Congress over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
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Passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill: India’s tryst with bigotry, says Priyanka Gandhi
India | Dec 10, 2019, 01:03 PM IST"Last night at midnight, India’s tryst with bigotry and narrow minded exclusion was confirmed as the CAB was passed in the Lok Sabha. Our forefathers gave their lifeblood for our freedom," she said in a tweet, recalling her great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru's speech on the midnight of August 14-15, 1947, when India rang in its Independence.
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Federal US commission seeks sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah if CAB passed in Parliament
India | Dec 10, 2019, 11:17 AM ISTAccording to the proposed legislation, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014 and facing religious persecution there, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.
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12-hour bandh in Northeast in protest against CAB; Manipur suspends stir
India | Dec 10, 2019, 08:48 AM ISTThe North East Students' Organisation (NESO), backed by various other bodies and political parties, will observe the shutdown till 4 pm against the Bill which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
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Life cripples in Tripura after call for shutdown against CAB
India | Dec 09, 2019, 02:13 PM ISTRoad and rail traffic were badly affected and thousands of passengers stranded in the midway as the picketers did not allow plying the vehicles and trains running between Tripura and rest of the country
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Mamata calls for second freedom struggle against NRC, CAB
National | Dec 06, 2019, 10:12 PM IST"We will launch another freedom struggle against NRC and CAB. We could not take part in the first freedom struggle which gave us our freedom. But we will take part in the second freedom movement. We will resist NRC and CAB," she said at the Solidarity Day rally organised by her party.