Citizenship Amendment Act comes into force after getting President Kovind’s assent

The amendments were passed by the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and the Lok Sabha on Monday.

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· Dec 13, 2019 · 01:09 am

Assam Police beat up staffers of TV news channel inside its Guwahati office

The managing editor of the channel has demanded an unconditional apology from the police.

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· Dec 13, 2019 · 12:05 am

Citizenship Act: Two killed in Assam protests as situation spirals out of control

An indefinite curfew was imposed in Guwahati and Dibrugarh districts and the towns of Tezpur and Dhekiajuli. Broadband internet was switched off in Guwahati.

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· 3 hours ago

Heavy rain lashes parts of Delhi-NCR, many flights diverted or delayed

The overall air quality index in Delhi was still in the ‘severe’ category at 418.

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· 3 hours ago

Citizenship Act protests: Train and flight operations severely affected in Assam

The Northeast Frontier Railway said that at least 30 trains were cancelled or short terminated.

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· 4 hours ago

Lotus on passports for security measures, will be used in rotation with other national symbols: MEA

An Opposition MP had brought it up in Parliament on Wednesday, alleging it was ‘further saffronisation’ by the BJP government.

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· 4 hours ago

The big news: 2 dead in Assam as protests against Citizenship Act continue, and 9 other top stories

Other headlines: Bangladesh home and foreign ministers cancelled their trips to India, and the Supreme Court rejected all petitions against its Ayodhya verdict.

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· 5 hours ago

Now, Bangladesh home minister cancels India visit amid anti-Citizenship Act protests: Reports

Asaduzzaman Khan’s decision came hours after his Cabinet colleague, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, pulled out of his three-day visit to India.

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· 6 hours ago

India’s restriction on cattle sale has dulled the shine of ‘Asia’s largest animal festival’

Traders do not bring milch animals to the fair, fearing attacks by cow vigilantes.

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· 6 hours ago

UP: Rape complainant warned of fate ‘worse than Unnao’, police arrest accused

The accused, who is from her village in Baghpat district, allegedly raped her in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar area last year.

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· 6 hours ago

‘Assam is burning, crying’: Singer Papon cancels Delhi concert as North East protests over CAB

Papon said Assam has been burdened with illegal immigration for decades and the state did not deserve the amendments made to the Citizenship Act of 1955.

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· 7 hours ago

India’s amended citizenship law an attempt to make Muslims second-class citizens: US Congressman

Andre Carson said the ‘citizenship ‘exercises’ and new laws strike at the heart of India’s founding tradition as a multicultural society’.

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· 8 hours ago