NEW DELHI – Two persons died of injuries suffered in violent protests against India’s new citizenship law in Mangaluru, hospital officials said on Thursday. They said that at least one of the two dead had been shot. Local government official Sindhu B. Rupeh said there had been clashes […]
Patna, Dec 19: A senior Congress leader from Bihar has shot off a letter to Union minister Nitin Gadkari, alleging “massive corruption” in the renovation of the more than five km long bridge over the river Ganges which has been under repair for close to a decade. Prem […]
Indian police fired tear gas and detained hundreds of people on Thursday as fresh violence broke out and demonstrators defied bans on assembly, amid growing anger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged anti-Muslim agenda. Security forces and protesters clashed in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka states as elsewhere […]
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU – As protests rage across Indian universities against a new citizenship law, students have taken to social media to wage battle online and teach people how to organise demonstrations. Instagram is popular with some because it can be used to share pictures and video, while its […]
MUMBAI – The police detained one of the country’s most respected historians and intellectuals, Ramachandra Guha, on Thursday during a demonstration in Bengaluru against a new citizenship law based on religion. Indian news channels showed footage of Guha being dragged by three policemen near barricades erected to hold […]
NEW DELHI – Hundreds of Indians held for defying a ban on demonstrating against a controversial new citizenship law continued their protest in police detention on Thursday. Public anger over the new law widely considered to be discriminatory is building across the country, with marches and rallies planned […]
New Delhi, Dec 19: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Thursday closed gates of seven more metro stations in view of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Now, the entry and exit gates of 14 Delhi Metro stations are closed for commuters. Earlier in the morning, the DMRC had […]
New Delhi, Dec 19: Scores of protestors were detained by the Delhi Police near Red Fort when they tried to take out a march in defiance of the prohibitory orders imposed there to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Swarajya Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav was among those detained, officials said. […]
New Delhi, Dec 19: Protests broke out in several parts of the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Here are the major trouble spots: DELHI: Red Fort – Scores of protestors were dragged into buses by police in a bid to clear the area where Section 144 of the […]
Pune, Dec 18: Several Muslim organisations took out a protest march in Maharashtra’s Solapur district on Wednesday against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, alleging that it discriminates on religious lines. The Act violates the basic frameworkof the Constitution and is against the Muslim community, the protesters charged. The march began […]
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