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Citizenship Act: Cops block Jamia gates to nab 'outsiders' causing violence

The students claimed that "certain" local elements had "disrupted" their protest and indulged in violence.

ATMs begin to run dry as people stalk up daily essentials in Guwahati

According to an official, curfew was relaxed from 9 am to 6 pm in Guwahati

Citizenship Act stir: Violence rocks Delhi; buses torched, 60 injured

BJP blamed the Aam Aadmi Party for the violence and demanded it stop "provoking people", but the AAP rejected the charge

India, Bangladesh must try to avoid adverse CAA effect

Whatever the migrations in the past, as matters stand today, the people of Bangladesh have no economic reasons to move to India and especially our Northeastern states

Letters to BS: Our Constitution is meant for Indians, not foreigners

Opposition parties should read Constitution and refrain from wasting valuable time of Parliament or the judiciary

Letters to BS: India must unite to resist Citizenship (Amendment) Act

If a partition was imposed on the country in 1947, it has now done it on itself

BJP-ally AGP to move SC for revocation of amended Citizenship Act

Sources said a delegation of the AGP, led by Das, would leave for Delhi in the evening to file the plea in the apex court

Citizenship Act: Agitators say protesting as Assamese, not Hindu or Muslim

The massive protests across the state against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), now an Act, are currently also led by the AASU, which has asserted that it will be unrelenting in its battle.

Nationwide NRC equal to demonetisation of citizenship, says Prashant Kishor

Prashant Kishor, who publicly took a stand contrary to that of his party on the citizenship law, offered his resignation to the party chief Nitish Kumar here on Saturday, sources said.

Citizenship Act: AASU, artists' forum hint at floating political party

The AASU president accused AGP of "betraying" the people of the state and said the Congress was also "equally bad".

Citizenship Act protests: Curfew relaxed in Guwahati, parts of Dibrugarh

Petrol pumps in the city have also opened with vehicles waiting in lines to refuel.

Citizenship Amendment Bill: 50% of tea estates remain closed in Assam

Assam accounts for nearly 50% of the tea supply in the country

Govt dividing people, destroying the economy: Cong leaders at Delhi rally

The leaders hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the new citizenship law, situation in Kashmir, state of economy, escalating prices, 'rising' crime against women and joblessness

Will seek President's Rule if violence continues in Bengal: Rahul Sinha

Slamming Banerjee for not taking tough action against the miscreants, Sinha said she had herself instigated the mob through her statements

Citizenship Act: AIMIM will fight legislation, plea filed, says Owaisi

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said he has filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court, challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act. I have filed a PIL before the SC challenging the #CAA @aimim_national will fight this battle to preserve a plural, secular constitutional democracy in Bharat. This fight will be before every possible forum & using every constitutional tool available to us," he tweeted. Owaisi had on Monday last attacked the Union government in the Lok Sabha over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, saying it was aimed at making Muslims "stateless" and would lead to another partition. Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, Owaisi had said he was called Mahatma after he tore the discriminatory citizenship card in South Africa The Hyderabad MP had then torn the copy of the bill to highlight his protest, inviting sharp reactions from the treasury benches, which described his act an "insult" to Parliament. The Act is an insult to India's ...

We are wrecking the Indian Constitution from within: P Chidambaram

This Government is ramming through this Bill in order to advance its Hindutva agend, said the former Union minister in Rajya Sabha

Citizenship Act: Assam civil society organisations set to move SC

The Forum Against Citizenship Act Amendment Bill (FACAAB) and Asom Nagarik Samaj (ANS) said they are preparing the papers to will move the apex court soon

Citizenship Act: Protests rock Bengal, CM Mamata appeals for peace

At Krishnapur station in Murshidabad district a number of empty trains were set on fire, besides railway tracks at Lalgola station, which they also ransacked

Assam govt employees announce cease work on Dec 18 against citizenship law

The employees had also supported the protesting students on December 11

OIL appeals to Assam protestors to let it carry out daily operations

Assam has been facing a shortage of fuel supply due to the ongoing protests against citizenship amendment Bill