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.
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.
Home Minister Amit Shah has hit out at Congress party under whose influence the 'tukde-tukde' gang carried out violent protest and asked the people of Delhi that time has come to punish them, indirectly referring to the forthcoming assembly elections in the national capital.
The NRC was conducted in Assam to identify genuine Indian citizens living in the state since March 24, 1971, or before, and also illegal Bangladeshi migrants. Out of 3.3 crore applicants, over 19 lakh people were excluded from the state's final NRC published on August 30.
Pradip Basu, dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Kolkata's Presidency University joined student's anti-CAA protest saying if there are any repercussions then a little sacrifice is affordable.
Author-activist Arundhati Roy on Wednesday claimed that the National Population Register (NPR) will serve as a database for the NRC and asked people to oppose the former by furnishing wrong names and addresses.
The new NPR will have 21 categories for which people have to give information compared to the previous NPR which had only 15 categories to be filled. Opposition has hit out at the Modi government saying NPR will be used for NRC, however, Home Minister Amit Shah has said that there is no connection between NPR and NRC.
A large number of Indian-Americans have come out in support of the amended citizenship law and the proposed National Register of Citizens, holding rallies in several US cities to "dispel misinformation and myths" surrounding the contentious law, the organisers of the demonstrations have said.
NDA ally Akali Dal leader Naresh Gujral has said that his party is against the CAA asking the government to also include Muslims in the refugees list. He also compared the present NDA with Vajpayee's era saying the government of the day lacks Vajpayee-touch.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday explained the difference between NPR (National Population Register) and NRC (National Register of Citizens). Clearing the Centre's stand, Amit Shah said the government is not even holding talks of implementing PAN-India NRC. Below are the highlights from what Amit Shah said on NPR, NRC and Citizenship Act.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are live petrol bombs and people should beware from them, said Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij lashing out the Congress top brass over Meerut visit when Sec 144 is in place following violent protests over CAA.
Earlier on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said that NPR had nothing to do with NRC. Attacking Owaisi, Amit Shah had said: "I am not surprised by the stand taken by Owaisi ji. If we say the sun rises from the east, then Owaisi sahab would say it rises from the west."
The results of the Jharkhand elections show that while the country was witnessing grim protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the issue had virtually no impact on voting preferences in the state.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday clarified that there was no link between the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
The government has no plans to carry out an exercise to prepare a National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the whole country on the basis of data to be collected during the updating of National Population Register (NPR) next year, PTI quoted officials as saying on Tuesday.
Bengal BJP vice president Chandra Kumar Bose has spoken against the Citizenship Amendment Act saying if it is not related to religion then why not include Muslims in it.
DMK chief MK Stalin has been booked for taking out protest rally against CAA in Chennai.
Protesters at Delhi's Mandi House staged protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Tuesday holding banners, posters and raising slogans against the controversial law.
Hindu refugees from Pakistan in Rajasthan supported the Citizenship Amendment Act and thanked PM Modi for bringing the law saying they are poor people, the act will them.
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