Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Condemning the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Dayanidhi Maran on Tuesday said the new citizenship law is against minorities.
Mau (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Twenty-eight people were arrested in connection with violence which erupted here on Monday following protests over police action on students of Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University, Uttar Pradesh Police said.
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Opposition leaders including Congress President Sonia Gandhi met President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday to lodge their protest over police action against students over the Citizenship Amendment Bill and said the protests against the legislation were spreading
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed for peace and asked all to refrain from violence as a protest against the new citizenship law turned violent in Delhi's Seelampur on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Policemen were chased and assaulted following a clash with an angry mob which was protesting against the new citizenship law in Delhi's Seelampur on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): The situation in all universities is peaceful and out of 42 central varsities academic sessions were normal everywhere except in Aligarh and Jamia Millia, said the Ministry of Human Resource Development sources on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Rajya Sabha Parliamentarian from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Manoj Kumar Jha, on Tuesday filed a petition before the Supreme Court challenging the newly amended citizenship law.
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Two days after a violent clash, hundreds of people held a protest against the Citizenship Act outside Jamia Millia Islamia University on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): The entry and exit gates of Seelampur metro station of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) that were shut earlier in the day for security reasons following protests over the Citizenship Law were opened.
New Delhi [India], Dec 17 (ANI): An anti-citizenship law protest turned violent in East Delhi's Seelampur area, forcing police to use tear gas shells to disperse the protestors who torched two buses on Tuesday.
New Delhi (India), Dec 17 (ANI): Actor Parineeti Chopra on Tuesday termed as "barbaric" the incidents of violence on Sunday during agitations against the citizenship law in the national capital and in Aligarh, where police clashed with students and other protestors.