The Congress party worker on whose two-wheeler Priyanka Gandhi Vadra traveled while going to meet family members of Former IPS officer SR Darapuri on Saturday, has been challaned with a penalty of Rs 6100 for not wearing helmets.
Addressing a press conference, AASU leadership said the organisation is keeping a "close watch" on the forthcoming T20 match between India and Sri Lanka on January 5 in Guwahati and the 'Khelo India' games scheduled from January 10 to 22, 2020.
The Delhi Waqf Board has set up helpdesks to extend free legal aid to people booked in the city and other states during protests against the amended citizenship law.
A video showing a senior cop asking Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters to leave the country and go to Pakistan has gone viral on social media. SP Meerut Akhilesh Narayan Singh was heard saying, “The ones (protesters) wearing those black or yellow armbands, tell them to go to Pakistan.”
Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday registered case against 10,000 unidentified students of Aligarh Muslim University, who were allegedly involved in the violence that took place during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act on December 15.
Attacking the government over the issue of the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said these exercises will be more disastrous than the note ban in November 2016.
On 134th foundation day of Congress, the interim party President Sonia Gandhi hoisted the tricolour at AICC headquarter in Delhi on Saturday.
UP government has walked the talk as far as their claims of making those responsible for damage of public property, pay for it go. Residents of Bulandshahr have paid over Rs 6 lakh to the district magistrate. Bulandshahr was one of the worst-hit areas of anti-CAA protests in UP.
While protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act after offering Friday prayers at the main gate of the Jama Masjid here, protesters said we are ready to go to a graveyard in India but we won't go to Pakistan.
A court here Friday allowed Delhi Police to carry out bone ossification test to ascertain the age of one of the accused, arrested in connection with violent protest at Seemapuri against the amended Citizenship Act, claiming juvenility.
A Large number of Muslims, including khadims of the Ajmer dargah, took out a protest march against the amended Citizenship Act here on Friday, demanding a rollback of the controversial law. They also burnt an effigy of Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, the spiritual head of the dargah, accusing him of misleading Muslims on the issue of the amended Citizenship Act.
Protesters demanding the release of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and others detained over Daryaganj violence took a protest march towards PM Modi's residence on Friday but were stopped by the police.
At a time when the internet is temporarily suspended in some UP districts, people have posted TikTok videos showing how life would be like without internet taking a lighter note on the situation and purely for fun.
caa and nrc have expanded their boundaries to more than just drawing room debates. As the conversations get heated, people share their stories of witnessing the end of childhood friendships or acquaintanceship over the issue.
The administration in Uttar Pradesh has beefed up security and intensified patrolling to ensure peace ahead of the Friday prayers. The authorities have also suspended internet services in 21 districts.
The DGP said that the SIT, in each district, will be headed by an officer of an Additional SP rank. The SIT will be headed by Additional SP (Crime) or Additional SP (City) of the district. More than 1,100 people have been arrested and 5,558 kept in preventive detention following violence related to anti-CAA protests in the past one week.
A group of individuals and organizations, representing religious and ethnic minorities of Bangladesh described the amended Citizenship Act as humanitarian,adding that through the law, India has partially fulfilled its duty towards millions of non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who had to flee to the country in recent years but could not claim their rights.
Uttar Pradesh has been witnessing violent protests over the amended Citizenship Act. At least 19 people were dead and dozens, including policemen were injured last Friday during clashes across the state.
The Left parties on Thursday announced a seven-day nationwide protest from January 1 to 7 and a general strike on January 8 against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Population Register and the National Register of Citizens.
The Popular Front of India, an extremist Islamic fundamentalist organisation which started in Kerala in 2006 as a successor to the National Development Front, has spread its base in Uttar Pradesh and played a major role in anti-CAA violent protests in the state as well as other places, catching security agencies off guard.
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