Breaking news on December 22

Firing going on, terror strike in Kishtwar. 2 Police Jawans injured in the firing.

DMK President MK Stalin in Chennai said: "Ruling party tried to stop DMK led rally against Citizenship Amendment Act, scheduled for tomorrow. However, court has given us permission, it is a huge victory for us. We will take out our rally abiding by the law."

One Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist arrested by police in Sopore, Baramulla district.

Internet services to remain suspended in Firozabad till 8 pm tomorrow

Madras High Court to hold a special sitting today to hear a plea seeking to restrain DMK & its allies from holding a rally in Chennai tomorrow against Citizenship Amendment Act

Internet services to remain suspended in Prayagraj till 24th December. 

All schools in city area of Aligarh district to remain closed on December 23 

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets Foreign Minister of Iran, Javad Zarif. Jaishankar said: "Just concluded a very productive India-Iran Joint Commission meeting with my co-chair Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Reviewed the entire gamut of our cooperation. Agreed on accelerating our Chabahar project."

Anti-CAA stir: Death toll in UP's Kanpur mounts to 3 as 30-year-old man succumbs to injuries

All schools to remain closed in Bareilly on 23rd and 24th December, due to cold wave conditions.

Fire breaks out at Labhshree Villa in Mumbai's Vile Parle. Eight fire brigade trucks have reached on spot. 

Curfew relaxed for 7 hours from 1 pm in parts of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh over citizenship law protests. 

Sahitya Akademi award winner G Nanjundan was found dead at his residence in Bengaluru. Police say that his body was found in a decomposed state and they are waiting for the postmortem report. The cause of his death is yet to be ascertained.

Police in Awantipora arrested a terrorist associate Rasiq Sheikh. Incriminating materials have been recovered from his possession. As per police records he is linked to active terrorists of proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammed outfit. Case registered.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said: "Whatever I said is there in public forum, whatever you said is there for people to judge. With PM contradicting Home Minister publicly on Nationwide NRC, who is dividing fundamental idea of India? People will definitely decide who is right and who is wrong."

Union Min Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur said: "I called senior officials at my home and told them there are cases of around Rs 89000 crore, I'll not tell you what to do, I'll only tell you economy of country is going through challenging situation, there is shortage of liquidity, take decisions quickly."

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh (East) meets the family of Suleiman, who died during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in the city on December 20. 

Anand Sharma,Congress on PM's statement said said: "Opposition hasn't brought this issue out of a vacuum. There's context to that." 

"It's the Home Minister's statement in both the Houses, it's in public domain. That has to be then duly clarified. That has created an environment of fear, insecurity and uncertainty in the country. It's primarily the govt which is responsible for that," he added. 

Air Intelligence Unit at Chennai airport has detained an Indian passenger, coming from Bangkok, and seized 12 Kangaroo Rats, 3 Prairie Dogs, 1 Red Squirrel and 5 Blue Iguana lizards from his possession. The rodents and reptiles are being sent back to Bangkok.

Former CM and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy met the families of the two people who died during protests in Mangaluru on December 19. The party has announced a compensation of Rs 5 Lakhs each to the family. He also met the injured, at the hospital in Mangaluru.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in Jaipur said: "I have said it with an open heart, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) & National Register of Citizens (NRC) are not going to be implemented in Rajasthan."

"Modi ji you should listen, 9 states have said it. Even your partners Bihar CM & Odisha CM who supported you in Parliament are saying they won't implement NRC. You should understand public sentiment&announce neither NRC in its current form,nor CAA will be implemented," he said.

We are doing what they (Congress) had promised but could not do due to vote-bank politics: PM Modi

PM Modi quotes ex-PM Manmohan Singh's remarks in support of giving citizenship to persecuted minorities from Bangladesh

Dalits, who came here from Pakistan, among beneficiaries of citizenship law; why you can't see their pain: PM Modi to critics

There is a very simple difference, an infiltrator never reveals his identity and a refugee never hides his identity. Many of these infiltrators are coming out and speaking. Why don't they speak the truth? They are scared that their reality will come out, says PM Narendra Modi

We had a chance to expose Pakistan's discrimination against minorities but it was lost due to our rivals' politics, says PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi: NRC came at the time of Congress. Were they sleeping then? We neither brought NRC in cabinet nor in Parliament. If we're passing legislation to give you ownership rights, in the same session will we bring legislation to send you out?

Congress and its friends, some urban Naxals are spreading rumours that all Muslims will be sent to detention centres...Respect your education, read what is the Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC. You are educated.

PM Modi, Amit Shah hiding behind hate; we can only defeat them by responding with love towards every Indian, says Rahul Gandhi

Pm Modi, Amit Shah destroyed future of youth, and they can't face their anger over jobs, economy that's why they are dividing India, says Congress MP Rahul Gandhi

No new refugee will get the benefit of the Citizenship Act, says PM Modi at Ramlila Maidan amid CAA stir

Amended citizenship law has nothing to do with Indian citizens, says PM Modi at Ramlila Maidan

In swipe at AAP, PM Modi says no appeal for peace from seven-year-old party, it shows violence has its indirect approval

"33,000 police personnel sacrificed their lives for peace & security in country, since independence. Today, you are brutally thrashing them. When any problem arises, police don't ask your religion or caste, whatever the weather or time they are there to help you," says PM Narendra Modi

My rivals should burn my effigy if they hate me but they should not target the poor, says PM Modi at Delhi Ramlila Maidan

• "Stand up and respect India's parliament for passing Citizenship Act," says PM Modi's message to protesters amid CAA stir
• Some political parties spreading all kinds of rumours, misleading people and stoking their emotions against citizenship law: Modi
• Lie being spread that I brought law to snatch people's rights, it will not stand: Modi
• I dare rivals to find anything discriminatory in my work, says Modi, citing his govt's various development programmes.

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• "Some political parties are spreading rumours, they're misleading people & inciting them. I want to ask them when we authorised the unauthorised colonies, did we ask anyone their religion? Did we ask which political party they support? Did we ask for documents from 1970,1980?"
• "Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians all were befitted, everyone who lives here was benefitted. Why did we do this? Because we live for the love of the country. We are dedicated to the mantra of 'Sabka saath, sabka vikas'"

• We built peripheral expressways, opened hundreds of CNG stations to curb pollution: PM Modi
• 25 km of new metro route added annually in last five years, it was 14 km earlier, AAP govt hindering work: Modi
• Delhi govt completely indifferent to city's biggest problem, which is the availability of drinking water: Modi
• People were incited, those in high positions shared fake videos: Modi on protests against citizenship law.

PM Narendra Modi: Had the Delhi govt not politicised the phase 4 project of Delhi metro, its work would have started much earlier. That is why I say that those who do politics in your name, never understood your pain, they never intended to do that.

We built the Peripheral Expressway to decongest Delhi: PM Modi

• PM Narendra Modi on unauthorised colonies: You should know what those people, whom you were asking for something for yourself, were doing. They had illegally given 2000 lavish bungalows to their people. No one knows what was given to whom in lieu of that.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday secured a victory in presidential elections with 50.64 percent votes, the country's election commission announced after an around three-month delay of the September vote, which resulted in protests and bitter dispute over claims of fraud.

PM Modi attacks rivals for not doing enough for unauthorised colonies, says he decided he cannot let this go on.

• "Even after several decades after Independence, a large section of the population in Delhi had to face fear, uncertainty, deceit & false electoral promises. Illegal, sealing, bulldozer & a cut-off date - the life of a large population in Delhi' was confined around these words," PM Modi says at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan.
• I, BJP got chance to usher in a new dawn for over 40 lakh people by giving them ownership rights to their houses: PM Modi

PM Modi raises the slogan of 'vividhta me ekta, Bharat ki visheshta' (Unity in diversity is India's speciality) at Delhi rally. 

Five passengers were killed and 18 others injured when their bus overturned after colliding with a truck in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district in the wee
hours of Sunday, police said. The accident took place around 12.30 am near Bargi bypass, located about 10 km from Jabalpur city.

 Bangladesh Foreign Minister: CAA, NRC India's 'internal issues', but 'worrisome' that 'uncertainty' could affect neighbours

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has sent three senior forensic experts to Hyderabad to conduct the second autopsy on the bodies of the four accused who were killed in Telangana Encounter on December 6.

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has announced Rs 10 lakh each as compensation to the families of the two people who died during protests in Mangaluru on December 19.

Curfew relaxed in Mangaluru till 6 pm today by district administration, Section 144 (prohibiting assembly of more than 4 people in an area) to remain in force.

A rally in support of Citizenship Amendment Act organized in Maharashtra's Nagpur by Lok Adhikar Manch, BJP, RSS and other organizations.

Pakistan Army violated ceasefire in Mendhar, Krishna Ghati and Poonch sectors along the Line of Control in the intervening night of 21 -22 December. Indian Army retaliated.

Internet services will remain suspended in the Rajasthan capital from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday in wake of protest being staged by a community against the Citizen Amendment Act and the protest march being taken out by the ruling Congress, to be led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

Police commissioner Anand Shrivastav, in a letter to the Divisional Commissioner, said that the above measure is being taken as a part of security measures being taken to maintain peace and harmony.

BJP MP Pragya Thakur has filed a complaint with the Bhopal Airport Director alleging that she was not allotted the seat that she had booked in a Spicejet flight and the conduct of the airline crew with her was not right.

The Lok Sabha MP from Bhopal filed the complaint on Saturday after allegedly being inconvenienced onboard a flight.

In a reply to Pakistan compliance report, the Financial Action Task Force has forwarded a total of 150 queries mostly in regards to the actions taken by Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government against terrorism. The government has to submit the answers in this regard by January 8.

The FATF has asked authorities to ensure that the individuals affiliated to terrorist organizations are convicted and also sought details of legal actions taken to regulate madrassas operating in the country.

271 couples from different communities tied the knot at a mass marriage ceremony in Gujarat's Surat. State Ministers Bhupendrasinh Chudasama and Ganpatsinh Vasava were also present at the occasion.

Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Saturday called upon its ally BJP to convene a meeting of ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the proposal to have a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Speaking to ANI here, JDU spokesperson KC Tyagi said that several NDA parties have expressed their views against the NRC.

"If a meeting of the NDA is called, the JD-U will welcome it. Given the conditions in the nation (over the anti-CAA protests), the meeting is very important," Tyagi said. 

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday demanded that Muslims should also be included in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in sync with democratic and secular principles of the country.

In a press statement, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said that Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh should not be excluded from the provision of the new law.

Badal said that he had made it clear in Parliament and continued to uphold the view that Muslims should not be excluded from the CAA in keeping with democratic and secular principles as well as the message of Guru Sahiban who preached welfare of all.

Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbagh Singh flagged off 'run for unity' marathon in Jammu earlier today.

Internet services have been restored in Aligarh. Services were suspended from December 15 after violence broke out during protests over Citizenship Act. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday to address a rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.

People in huge numbers gathered at AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi's rally at Darussalam, Hyderabad in protest against Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens. Jamia Millia Islamia students Ladeeda Sakhaloon and Aysha Renna were also present.