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Naihati, Dec 27: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that as long as she is alive, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will not be implemented in the state. No one can snatch away the rights of the people of the country, like citizenship, the Trinamool Congress supremo said at a programme here. Supporting the students' protest across the country against the contentious CAA

Dec 27: Senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi on Friday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "liar" for saying that there is no detention camp in the country and claimed that the BJP-led government at the Centre had sanctioned Rs 46 crore for one in Assam's Goalpara district. Gogoi said the Congress government in Assam he had headed had set up detention camps in the state as per a Gauhati High Court

Raipur, Dec 27: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday termed the National Register of Citizens (NR C) and National Population Register (NPR) as an attack on the poor people of the country and said that it was akin to taxing them. Talking to reporters here, the Congress leader said, "Whether it is NRC and NPR, it is a tax on poor people of the country. Demonetisation was a tax on poor people of

New Delhi, Dec 27: A large number of people have gathered outside Jama Masjid area of Old Delhi on Friday to protest against the newly-enacted Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. Protestors raised slogans against the Act and the central government. They can be seen carrying placards that read, "Save the Constitution", "Withdraw CAA", "We condemn Communal Law". Congress leader Alka Lamba was also

Washington, Dec 27: The amended Citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government "may affect the status" of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said. The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India's history, a religious criterion has been added to the country

Srinagar, Dec 27: Mobile Internet services were restored in Kargil district of Ladakh on Friday after remaining suspended for 145 days in the wake of the Centre abrogating provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution, officials said. The services were restored in view of complete normalcy returning to Kargil, with no untoward incident taking place over the past four months, officials said. They

Kochi, Dec 27: A Norwegian woman tourist has been asked to leave the country after she was found to have participated in an anti-CAA protest here early this week, violating visa norms, a senior official said here on Friday. "Our enquiry found that she has violated visa norms and so she was asked to go back," Anoop Krishnan, Officer in the Foreigners Regional Registration Office told news agency

Lucknow, Dec 27: Internet services have been suspended in 21 districts and security has been tightened as part of measures adopted to prevent any untoward incident in the state on Friday. Apart from internet suspension which is aimed at checking rumours, the police have also made strategic deployment in sensitive areas, according to state DGP OP Singh. "We have suspended internet services in 21

Almaty, Dec 27: At least 14 people died when a passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, the government said on Friday. "There are 14 dead at the (crash) site," Almaty city government said in a statement via its official channel on the Telegram messenger app. It added that a further 17 patients were being treated in hospital in a "serious condition".

New Delhi, Dec 26: Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat on Thursday criticised people leading violent protests over the new citizenship law, saying leadership is not about guiding masses, including students to carry out arson and violence, remarks that drew sharp reactions from opposition leaders. The opposition party, including the Congress attacked Gen Rawat, who is due to retire on December 31 as Army