MUMBAI: The Congress said on late Thursday night that it had conveyed its stand about portfolio allocation to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
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PM Modi, Pranab Mukherjee, top political leaders invited to Hemant Soren’s swearing-in
Ranchi, Dec 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former president Pranab Mukherjee, chief ministers Mamata Banerjee and Uddhav Thackeray, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are among those invited to Jharkhand chief minister-designate Hemant Sorens swearing-in ceremony on December 29. The others invited to the programme to be held at the sprawling Mohrabadi grounds here are…
Anna Hazare demands his security be withdrawn, writes to CM Uddhav Thackeray
PUNE: Social activist Anna Hazare has demanded that the security provided to him by the government be withdrawn.
Hazare sent a letter to this effect to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday.
Security cover to him was a waste of public money, he said.
Many people had threatened him in the past, but he always ignored them, he said.
“I had requested the state government to revoke my security. But the government has not responded to my request. In the meantime, I came to know that the government is revoking the security of some people.
‘PM Modi was right, no discussion on NRC right now’: Amit Shah
Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that there is no pan-India discussion on National Register of Citizens (NRC) at the moment. The home minister emphasised there have been no talks on the subject either in Parliament or the Union Cabinet.
PM Narendra Modi slams Opposition’s divisive politics on CAA, says ‘Citizenship law not anti-Muslim’
New Delhi: “Vividhta me ekta, Bharat ke visheshta” (Unity in diversity is India’s speciality) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his speech with this unusal chant, at Delhi’s Ramlila Ground on Sunday afternoon, as he kicked BJP’s campaign for the upcoming Delhi assembly election. Addressing a massive crowd that had gathered at the Delhi Ground,…
CAA stir: Not us, but Amit Shah created environment of fear, uncertainty, says Congress
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charge that the Opposition was “inciting” people, and alleged that an environment of fear and uncertainty has been created by Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in Parliament that the NRC will be implemented after Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
Nitish Kumar lying on NRC implementation in Bihar: RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha
QUICKCLARITY News Service PATNA: Staging a sit-in dharna during the dawn to dusk Bihar bandh at Patna’s Dak Bungalow, former HRD Minister and RLSP chairperson Upendra Kushwaha taunted Bihar CM Nitish Kumar over the latter’s statement on NRC. “Nitish Kumar is lying before the people of Bihar having said that the NRC wouldn’t be implemented in the…
Economy ‘virtually destroyed’, CAA brought in to divert attention: Akhilesh Yadav
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav criticised the ruling BJP on Sunday, alleging that the new citizenship law has been brought in to “divert the attention” from the “virtually destroyed” economy and rising unemployment.
PM Modi to kick-off BJP’s Delhi poll campaign from Ramlila ground
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set tokick off the Bharatiya Janata Party’scampaign for the Delhi Assembly polls on Sunday, December 22, from Delhi’sRamlila ground even as thenation continues to be in a state of unrest due to the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Imran Khan On Citizenship Amendment Act: Pakistan Won’t Accept Muslim Refugees From India
Geneva: Amid the ongoing protests over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that millions of Muslims could flee India due to the curfew imposed in the territory of Kashmir and the new citizenship law, creating ‘a refugee crisis that would dwarf other crises’, news agency Reuters reported. While…
Opposition at President’s door: Protests echo spreading fear, ask Government to repeal Act
Amid protests against the new citizenship law, leaders of 12 Opposition parties led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi met President Ram Nath Kovind Tuesday and requested him to intervene and advise the government to immediately repeal the Act.
‘Violent protests on CAA are unfortunate, distressing’: PM Modi
New Delhi, Dec 16: In his first reaction to the protests PM Narendra Modi has said, “violent protests on the Citizenship Amendment Act are unfortunate and deeply distressing”.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seeks Rs 11, stone from each family for construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seeks Rs 11, stone from each family for construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Citizenship Amendment Bill gets President Kovind’s assent, becomes an Act
President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday gave his nod to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, turning it into an Act. The Act comes into effect with its publication in the official gazette on Thursday, according to a government notification.
Citizenship (Amendment) Bill Gets President’s Assent, Becomes Act
President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, 12 December gave his assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, turning it into an Act.
According to an official notification, the Act comes into effect with its publication in the official gazette on Thursday.
According to the Act, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014 and facing religious persecution there will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.Here is the
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and by Lok Sabha on Monday.
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