New Delhi: The secret shifting of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, from Mandoli jail to Tihar jail and restrictions on the other three convicts has sent shivers down the spines of all the four convicts....
New Delhi: In a late Thursday night order, President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, letting it become an Act allowing Indian citizenship to six non-Muslim minority migrants facing religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. As per gazette...
Guwahati: Amidst reports of two protestors dying in police firing, thousands of people defied curfew to hit the streets as the raging agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Bill saw the house of an MLA and a circle office being set ablaze, while the government removed...
Guwahati: Police opened fire to disperse protesters at Lalungaonn area here Thursday in which some persons were reportedly injured, a senior police officer said. The officer claimed that the protesters hurled stones and bricks at the policemen and when attempts to pacify them did not...
Guwahati: The house of Union minister Rameswar Teli in Assam’s Duliajan was attacked by anti-Citizenship Bill protesters Wednesday night, officials said. They said properties were damaged at the minister’s house at Duliajan in Dibrugarh district, without giving further details. The Union minister of state for...
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Wednesday approved the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, completing the legislative procedure for giving Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Replying to a six-and-a-half-hour debate on the bill, Home Minister Amit Shah said the legislation seeks to provide citizenship...
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah Wednesday moved the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Rajya Sabha, saying that Indian Muslims ‘were, are and will remain Indian citizens’. Moving the bill that provides Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Shah said minorities...
New Delhi: After a smooth passage in the Lok Sabha, the real test for the BJP is to get the sensitive Citizenship Amendment Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha Wednesday, where it is short of numbers. But party insiders say the passage of the Bill...
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 Monday night after a prolonged and heated debate on the issue. Soon after the government introduced the controversial Bill in the Lok Sabha, the Opposition raised objections, calling it “fundamentally unconstitutional” and in “violation”...
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Monday said in Lok Sabha that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 is not against minorities but against infiltrators. Introducing the bill, Shah said the Congress ‘divided’ the country on the basis of religion that is why it was...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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