Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was against the "the idea of India" and the framers of the Constitution explicitly rejected any idea of citizenship on the basis of religion.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday along with his entire cabinet received the report of the high-level committee formed to review and suggest measures for implementation of Clause six of 1985 Assam accord.
Tata Group firm Titan Company on Saturday said its sales in December were hit due to protests in the North East and other parts of the country.
A day after a mob indulged in stone-pelting at Nankana Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday tweeted that the incident should be an eye-opener for those opposed to the CAA.
The principal opposition in Tamil Nadu DMK on Tuesday staged protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at district headquarters.
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi would address a protest rally against the CAA, NRC and NPR at Kishanganj in Bihar on December 29 in which former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi would also participate.
A forged note doing the rounds of social media claims that the university has terminated the services of its registrar, IPS officer Abdul Hamid, for allowing the cops on campus on December 16
Nadda had last week struck a hardline tone amid protests in different parts of the country, saying the CAA will be implemented across the country and so will the NRC. Shah had told election rallies during the Jharkhand election that the NRC will be done before the next Lok Sabha poll in 2024.
They held placards with the slogans like 'India Supports CAA', 'Padhai Karo, Patharbaji Nahi', 'Stop Hinduphobia', 'Atithi deo bhava', 'Country First', 'We support our persecuted brothers and sisters from across the borders with open arms' written on them, and shouted slogans.
Violent anti-Citizenship Act protests continued to hit headlines on Friday as the epicentre of the protests widened to take Uttar Pradesh in its hold alongside Delhi. For almost the entire day, people agitated against Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC) across UP in protests that took violent turn.
Residents of Jama Masjid area offered roses to senior police officers on Friday to show their cooperation with police and convey their message of peace.
Scores of Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) students on Thursday evening protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), despite police ban and no permission from the school's administration.
Protesters in Lucknow torched a police station amid massive protests over the amended Citizenship Act. Several vehicles were also set ablaze in the city. A television channel's OB Van was also attacked by the crowd in the middle of Parivartan Chowk following which police used lathicharge.
The newly amended law seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain and Parsi communities who came to the country from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan on or before December 31, 2014.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday reminded the Congress to see the 1947 proposal of the party Executive committee before criticizing the Modi government over the issue. He said the Congress should also see the statement of its leader Ashok Gehlot.
In fresh violence in the national capital, protesters demanding scrapping of the amended citizenship law torched several motor bikes, pelted stones at police personnel and damaged buses and a police booth in Northeast Delhi's Seelampur area on Tuesday afternoon.
Angry protesters demanding scrapping of the amended citizenship law torched several motor bikes, pelted stones at police personnel and damaged buses and a police booth in Northeast Delhi's Seelampur area on Tuesday afternoon, in fresh violence in the national capital.
The stranded children were taken out of the back door after their parents managed to reach the school, the official said. The school is near the Jafrabad police station. Delhi has been witnessing violent protests over the amended Citizenship Bill.
Jafrabad violence: A mosque in Jafrabad took a welcome step of making a public appeal to the stone-pelting crowd to stop violence and maintain calm. The announcement was made from loudspeakers of the mosque after Azan which had a great impact on the violence and there were moments of peace. The crowd in the immediate vicinity of the Mosque thinned out and people appeared to clear the streets.
Terming it as a gross violation of human rights, around 400 Indian students studying in various American universities have condemned the "brutal police violence" unleashed against students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University last Sunday.
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