Citizenship Act
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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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Sushant Singh announces his exit from Savdhaan India post CAA protest
TV | Dec 17, 2019, 01:58 PM ISTSushant Singh has been a part of Savdhaan India as its host since 2011.
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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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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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Amid citizenship law protests, Pranab Mukherjee warns the govt
India | Dec 17, 2019, 09:01 AM IST“We think we can do anything and everything, when we have an overwhelming majority in legislature but that should not be the case,” Mukherjee said
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Kanhaiya draws massive crowds to citizenship law protest rally in Bihar, watch
India | Dec 17, 2019, 09:37 AM ISTAddressing his first major rally after the Lok Sabha election drubbing, Kanhaiya called the citizenship law as a diversionary tactic to distract from issues such as onion price hike among others
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Sonia Gandhi shedding crocodile tears; Indira Gandhi had sent students to Tihar: BJP
India | Dec 17, 2019, 06:56 AM ISTHitting back at Sonia Gandhi for her remark that the Modi government has "declared war on its own people", Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the Congress president was shedding "crocodile tears" for political gains.
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Kolkata to Ahmedabad via Jamia: Students lead nationwide-protest against Citizenship Act
India | Dec 16, 2019, 10:47 PM ISTStudents are angry, and they are showing it. They are coming out in open to express their anger and dissatisfaction. They are not happy how things unfolded at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University. There want answers and they are asking questions on campuses across the nation.
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Anti-CAA protest: Police fire in air, 15 vehicles torched by protesters in UP's Mau
India | Dec 16, 2019, 08:49 PM ISTProtesters torched 15 vehicles as a demonstration against Citizenship Amendment Act and police action in Jamia Millia Islamia University turned violent here on Monday, prompting the police to fire in air. The incident occurred in Dakshintola area of Mau.
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You can’t wish away 200 million Muslims: Chetan Bhagat takes a stand on citizenship row
India | Dec 16, 2019, 06:19 PM ISTYou can't wish 200 million Muslims away. Try that and India will burn, GDP will crash and your kids will be unsafe and jobless. Stop these fantasies, Bhagat tweeted
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No illegal immigrant will be given Indian citizenship automatically: MHA
India | Dec 16, 2019, 05:45 PM ISTNo illegal immigrants belonging to Hindu and other five communities coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship automatically but only after fulfilling the necessary criteria, a senior Home Ministry official said on Monday.
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CAA violence: Beware of fake news on social media, MHA advises states to take action
India | Dec 16, 2019, 05:33 PM ISTThe Union Home Ministry on Monday asked states and Union Territories (UTs) to take all possible steps to check violence and ensure safety of life and properties.
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Jamia epicenter but Citizenship Act protests spill over to other universities across country
India | Dec 16, 2019, 04:30 PM ISTAnger over the police crackdown in Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia and at the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act cascaded across many campuses in the country on Monday with politicians and civil society supporting the students to decry what they say is an unconstitutional law.
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Fact check: Did Delhi Police set the bus on fire during Jamia protests?
India | Dec 16, 2019, 02:59 PM ISTDelhi Police has clarified that the cops were actually dousing the fire rather than igniting it, as is being claimed on social media
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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.
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Mamata Banerjee leads protest march against NRC, CAA in Kolkata
India | Dec 17, 2019, 12:31 PM ISTTaking the pledge after garlanding the statue of B. R. Ambedkar on Indira Gandhi Sarani (erstwhile Red Road) in the city hub, Banerjee said nobody would have to leave Bengal and called for harmony and peace among people of all religions.
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CAA protests: Agra on high alert amid tensions in neighbouring cities
India | Dec 16, 2019, 11:37 AM ISTThe Agra district administration has taken a series of measures to stall snowballing of tension from neighbouring Aligarh which was on the boil against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
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SC to hear pleas alleging police atrocities on students protesting against CAA
India | Dec 16, 2019, 12:13 PM ISTThe Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Tuesday pleas which have alleged police atrocities on students holding protests against the amended Citizenship Act at the Aligarh Muslim University and the Jamial Millia Islamia University in Delhi.