The US Citizenship Act 2021, proposed by newly-elected President Joe Biden, will be introduced in Congress, the nation's lawmaking body, on Thursday.
35 companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed in Northeast Delhi along with Special Cell, Crime Branch and Economic Offences Wing (EOW) officials. Local police from different districts of Delhi have also been called in.
UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, on Wednesday, kicked off a major controversy when he slammed the anti-CAA protesters and made a disparaging remark on the deaths that took place during the protests.
Protesters at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi have announced that they will march to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's residence with a charter of demands. They said their primary demand is to revoke the Citizenship Amendment Act.
A prominent Indian-American has suggested renaming the CAA as the Neighbour Persecuted Religious Minority Refugee Act, saying it would establish a right perception difficult to challenge.
India will turn into a 'Hindu Rashtra' if CAA is implemented, this is what BJP and RSS wants, says AIMIM Chief Owaisi
Earlier on Friday, the Supreme Court had said that it would take up on Monday the two public interest litigations (PIL) seeking directions to the Central government for laying down guidelines relating to restrictions for holding protests leading to obstruction to public places.
Half of Bangladesh's population will leave that country if Indian citizenship was promised to them, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Sunday.
Shaheen Bagh, Khureji Khas and Hauz Rani are some of the sites in the city where protesters are opposing the amended citizenship law. The protesters said they will help the authorities in conducting peaceful polls in the national capital, police said.
According to police reports, the accused Shravan Sharma, a resident of Unnao district, has completed a diploma course in civil engineering from a private institute in Sitapur. SHO Thakurganj Pramod Kumar Mishra said Shravan had gone to a friend's home in Thakurganj from where he was arrested.
We have not been provoked, we know why we are sitting here, says women protesters at Shaheen Bagh
4 PFI members held for inciting violence in Muzaffarnagar during anti-CAA protest
The police did not allow Aishi Ghosh to speak due to lack of permission. People involved in the protest repeatedly kept advocating to let Aishi Ghosh speak but the police stopped the loudspeaker.
Child specialist Kafeel Khan who was accused of making an inflammatory speech at AMU was remanded to judicial custody and later transferred to Mathura jail, officials said on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that his government has no reason to feel defensive about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and asked NDA leaders to back the measure strongly in Parliament.
Addressing a rally in Kerala's Kalpetta, Rahul Gandhi said, "Nathuram Godse shot Mahatma Gandhi because he did not believe in himself, he loved no one, he cared for nobody, he believed in nobody and that is the same with our Prime Minister, he only loves himself, only believes in himself.
Dr. Kafeel Khan has been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) in Mumbai. Khan was wanted in a case registered in Aligarh for his inflammatory remarks during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
A joint motion, combining five different resolutions tabled by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) against India's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), has been placed on the final agenda for debate at the Plenary session in Brussels on Wednesday. However, an expected vote on the motion on Thursday has been postponed until the Parliament's Plenary session in March.
Round-the-clock protests against the amended Citizenship Act were witnessed at Delhi's Nizamuddin on Sunday. The protesters were mostly residents from the nearby Nizamuddin Basti.
The West Bengal legislative assembly on Monday passed a resolution against the amended Citizenship Act, becoming the fourth state in the country after Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan to pass such a resolution.
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