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).
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Mamata Banerjee appeals to Modi to withdraw CAA for peace in country
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act so as to restore peace in the country. “I will again appeal to the honorable Prime Minister to intervene so that peace is restored in the country, which is now on fire. This is needed…
SC Issues Notice To Centre On Pleas Challenging Citizenship Act; Refuses To Put A Stay On New Law
New Delhi: The Supreme Court issued notice to the Centre on Wednesday over a batch of pleas challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act, but has refused to put a stay on the new law.
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”.
Idea of nationwide NRC equivalent to demonetisation of citizenship: Prashant Kishor
PATNA: Political strategist and JD(U) national vice president Prashant Kishor on Sunday came out with a fresh tirade against the National Register for Citizens — which the Centre proposes to implement across the country – a day after he had a meeting with party boss and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Kishor, who had told…
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
‘Is This Federalism?’: Kamal Nath Says CMs Not Consulted on CAB
Nath said the Congress has never supported divisive laws. https://dai.ly/x7p3y6p Speaking on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress stalwart Kamal Nath on Friday, 13 December, said the grand old party has never supported laws that are divisive in nature. Addressing a gathering at the Indian Women’s Press Corps in…
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.
‘Shiv Sena, Muslim League as partners’: Amit Shah on Congress being secular
Union Home Minister Amit Shah countered the Congress party’s claim that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is communal in nature with the retort that the Congress is such a secular party that it has Muslim League as a coalition partner in Kerala and the Shiv Sena as an ally in Maharashtra, ANI quoted Shah as saying…
On Sonia Gandhi’s birthday, Puducherry CM distributes onions to party workers
In a symbolic dig at the Centre over soaring onion prices, Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Monday gifted 1 kg of onions each to party workers to celebrate Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s 73rd birthday. The prices of onion have skyrocketed across the country, caused by a delay in the arrival of new crop and…
BJP Seeks Apology for Behaviour Towards Smriti Irani in Lok Sabha
The Bharatiya Janata Party, on Monday 9 December, demanded an apology from Congress MP’s for their alleged misconduct with Union Minister Smriti Irani in the Lok Sabha on Friday, 6 December. The Lok Sabha is scheduled to discuss the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Bill, 2019 and the Arms (Amendment)…
Centre wanted to wreck my mental strength: Chidambaram
Centre wanted to wreck my mental strength: Chidambaram Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday accused the Central government of trying to wreck his mental strength by imprisoning him in the INX Media case. The former Minister, who spent 106 days in Delhi’s Tihar jail, however, did not explicitly mention the case against him filed…
Goa Minister blames high price of onion for dip in tourists footfall
Goa ports Minister Michael Lobo on Saturday blamed the rise in the price of onions as the reason for the decline in tourists visit in the state. “The tourist arrival in Goa is less this year. Indian tourists ask for onions and chillies (along with meals). Due to rising onion prices, they are being served…
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