Kolkata As protests against the amended Citizenship Act continue to rage in parts of the country, tourism industry has taken a hit this holiday season, with several nations deeming India as an unsafe travel destination. Stakeholders of the country’s tourism industry maintained that many domestic tourists were also looking toRead More

Pune Several hundred people in Pune in Maharashtra formed a human chain in support of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Saturday evening. The human chain extended from the famous Balgandharva auditorium to Decan Gymkhana, separated by a distance of approximately 500 metres. The participants comprised youngsters, senior citizens,Read More

New Delhi The Jamia Millia Islamia students on Saturday staged a demonstration yet again outside the varsity campus against amendments in the citizenship law, days after violent clashes between police and agitationists in its vicinity. The demonstration was led by woman students of the central varsity and was later joinedRead More

New Delhi/Mumbai Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his council of ministers on Saturday to discuss security measures to end violent protests against the citizenship law, government sources said. At least 14 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters since Parliament passed the law on December 11, withRead More

New Delhi Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for his entire life for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said on Friday while sentencing him for life. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 25 lakh in theRead More

Vatican City The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before — suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plaguedRead More

New Delhi Hundreds of people led by Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad took part in a protest near Jama Masjid on Friday against the amended Citizenship Act despite the police not giving permission for the demonstration. Azad was detained near Daryaganj during a protest march from Jama Masjid to JantarRead More

New Delhi No Indian citizen will be unduly harassed or put to inconvenience by asking to prove citizenship by showing documents like birth certificates of parents or grandparents dating back to a period before 1971, the Home Ministry said on Friday. In a series of tweets, a ministry spokesperson saidRead More

Chandigarh The BJP on Thursday released an old footage from Parliament in 2003 of Manmohan Singh speaking on the citizenship law in the Rajya Sabha In the old video, Manmohan Singh is speaking in support of citizenship to minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Senior BJP leader LK Advani, thenRead More

New Delhi The Delhi High Court Thursday issued notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the police on a PIL seeking setting up of a fact finding committee to look into violence at Jamia Millia Islamia University here during protests against the Citizen (Amendment) Act (CAA). A bench ofRead More