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  AASU calls three-day mass satyagraha against CAA

  India | December 14, 2019 9:32 IST

  Announcing 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 | December 14, 2019 9:23 IST

  The 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 | December 14, 2019 7:15 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 | December 14, 2019 6:59 IST

  Bangladesh'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 | December 13, 2019 14:04 IST

  The 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 | December 13, 2019 13:01 IST

  Speaking 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 | December 13, 2019 7:00 IST

  Two 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 | December 12, 2019 23:53 IST

  In 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

  Politics | December 12, 2019 18:05 IST

  They 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 | December 12, 2019 17:37 IST

  He 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 | December 10, 2019 22:11 IST

  Large 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

  Politics | December 10, 2019 19:54 IST

  Former 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 | December 10, 2019 13:03 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 | December 10, 2019 11:17 IST

  According 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 | December 10, 2019 8:48 IST

  The 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 | December 09, 2019 14:13 IST

  Road 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

  Politics | December 06, 2019 22:12 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.

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  Pink Ball Test: CAB to refund tickets bought for Day 4 and 5

  Cricket | November 25, 2019 15:56 IST

  The CAB has promised to also work out a mechanism for a refund of tickets sold offline once its offices reopen on Tuesday.

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  Four held for robbing passengers after hijacking cab in Delhi

  Crime | November 21, 2019 19:26 IST

  Three accused persons posed as passengers and boarded the cab. After reaching Noida, they overpowered the driver, beat him up and looted his money and mobile phone.

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  CAB will leave no stone unturned to make D/N Test a success: Dalmiya

  Cricket | October 29, 2019 20:55 IST

  Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) secretary Avishek Dalmiya is confident of making India's first Day/Night Test at Eden Gardens a success.