Citizenship Amendment Bill Protests LIVE Updates:

More than 60 organizations have moved from ideological and religious lines to appeal for nationwide protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act from 19 December. On 19 December 1927, the martyrdom of freedom fighters Ashfaqulla Khan and Ramprasad Bismil is remembered. On this day in 1947, Mahatma Gandhi prevented 70,000 Muslims from migrating to Pakistan.

RJD slams Nitish over support to Bill, JD(U) digs out Lalu speech

Under attack from the RJD for supporting the new citizenship law, the JD(U) on Friday dug out a 1989 speech of then Janata Dal MP Lalu Prasad, who had then blamed the Congress for the Bhagalpur riots, and said his party had defended the BJP and RSS.

The V P Singh-led Janata Dal government was then supported by the BJP from outside.

Jharkhand Assembly poll LIVE:

CM Raghubar Das, speaker in fray as voting begins for 20 seats The second phase of polling for the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly will be held on Saturday. Twenty assembly constituencies in the state will go to polls in the second phase today. The Jamshedpur(East) and Jamshedpur(West) constituencies will vote between 7 am and 5 pm,…

Novel honeytrap: Undercover woman cop nabs fugitive in MP by proposing marriage

An undercover woman police sub-inspector in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhattarpur district posed as a bride to nab a dreaded murderer. 28-year-old Madhvi Agnihotri, posing as ‘Radha Lodhi’, managed to fool the offender, Balkishan Choubey, by proposing to marry him after they spoke on the phone for three days. Unknown to Choubey, the police had set up…