Tag: CAA protests

News website NewsClick on Wednesday rejected as “absurd” and “baseless” the Delhi Police’s claims that the publication and its founder-editor Prabir Purkayastha were involved in funding Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists and inciting violence in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests.The allegations were detailed in the police’s chargesheet filed ...

Video Editor: Arnab ChakravortyIn 2011, the Foreigners Tribunal-4 of Silchar, Assam issued a notice to Anjali Roy of Katigorah doubting her Indian citizenship. In 2015, she proved her identity as an Indian citizen by producing the necessary documents but her name was never included in the voters' list. Instead, ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Thursday hit out at the Opposition for indulging in “politics of lies” over the the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, saying that there’s no question of “timing” in Centre notifying the rules for the implementation shortly before the Lok Sabha elections. “The BJP said in ...

While some people associated with the ruling party and government have announced that once the magic figure of 400 MPs is reached the Constitution will be amended, others have denied it. Regardless of this agenda, the dramatic pre-election announcement of the Rules under the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 as ...

Opposition parties and student groups in Assam responded to the Centre notifying the rules under the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act by calling for statewide protests, PTI reported.The Citizenship Amendment Act is aimed to provide citizenship to refugees from six minority religious communities, except Muslims, from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday claimed that there was no relevance of any protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Act at this point and said that all those opposed to the law may approach the Supreme Court for revoking it.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Sarma said that ...

The Centre will notify the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act before the Lok Sabha elections are announced, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday quoting an unidentified government official. The Citizenship Amendment Act, approved by Parliament on December 11, 2019, provides citizenship to refugees from six minority religious communities ...

A tribunal in Uttar Pradesh has ordered 86 persons to pay a total fine of Rs 4,27,439 for having damaged public property during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in 2019, ANI reported on Saturday.The order was passed by the Uttar Pradesh Public and Private Property Damage Recovery Claims ...

The Citizenship Amendment Act does not affect the legal, democratic or secular rights of Indian citizens, the Union government told the Supreme Court on Sunday, reported Bar and Bench. In an affidavit, the government added that that existing regime for obtaining Indian citizenship continues to be untouched by the ...

A little after noon on December 6, Rahul Raghuvanshi was about halfway through writing his maths exam paper in St Joseph’s School in the town of Ganj Basoda in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district. Suddenly, loud cries of “Jai Shri Ram!” tore through the silence. There were sounds of smashing ...