NEW DELHI, Dec 13 Several petitions, including those by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, were filed in the Supreme Court on Friday challenging the Constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019...

Thiruvananthapuram/Kolkata/Delhi, Dec 12 Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday announced that his State will not implement The Citizen (Amendment) Bill, 2019 passed by the Parliament. While addressing a press conference in the State Secretariat, the Chief Minister alleged that by passing the CAB, the BJP was executing the agenda to divide the Nation on communal lines...

New Delhi, Dec 10 The protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill intensified in various States of the North East region with several reports of stone-pelting, arson and agitation coming from Assam, Tripura and Manipur on Tuesday. The Tripura administration shut down internet service for 48 hours in wake of protests against the Bill. In Assam, normal life came to a halt in Brahmaputra Valley due to a Statewide bandh with protests in different areas of Guwahati. ..

New Delhi, Dec 10 The BJP is confident of the passage of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha which will be introduced in the Upper House on Wednesday, sources said on Tuesday...

NEW DELHI, Dec 9 The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Monday cleared the first test in the Lok Sabha, with 293 members voting in favour of the Bill's introduction and 82 against it...

New Delhi, Dec 8 Hundreds of people from across Delhi, including students, gathered near Jantar Mantar here on Saturday to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) and the proposal for Nationwide implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC)...

NEW DELHI, Dec 7 A 23-year-old rape victim died in a hospital in India's capital two days after she was set on fire by a gang of men, including her alleged rapist, the doctor treating her said. The woman was on her way to board a train in Unnao district of northern Uttar Pradesh to attend a court hearing when she was doused with kerosene and set on fire on Thursday, according to the police...

New Delhi, Dec 6 The Citizenship (Amend-ment) Bill, 2019 approved by the Cabinet sets a cut-off date of 2014 for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jains and Parsis from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh to have entered India. It also reduces the 11-year clause for such people to prove their residency in India to five years. The main Act, according to reliable sources, does not mention religious persecution as the reason for the amendments, though the statement of objects and reasons do. The ..

New Delhi, Dec 5 What is the Citizenship Amendment Bill ? - The Bill amends the Citizenship Act, 1955 to make people from Hindu, Sikh, Jain Buddhist, Christian and Parsi faiths who entered India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan eligible for citizenship...

New Delhi, Dec 5 Making the Congress’ stand on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill clear, former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi Thursday said the party will oppose the contentious legislation aimed at providing citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan...

New Delhi, Dec 4 The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan was cleared by the Union Cabinet Wednesday morning. The Bill, which had lapsed in the previous term of the Modi Government due to massive protests in Rajya Sabha, is expected to be taken up in Parliament next week...

New Delhi, Dec 1 Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday held a series of meetings with representatives, including Chief Ministers, from North Eastern States on the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019. ..

MUMBAI, Nov 30 The 'Maha Vikas Aghadi' Government led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray proved its majority in the special session of the Maha-rashtra Assembly convened on Saturday after Opposition MLAs staged a walkout in protest. ..

NEW DELHI, Nov 29 Even as Union Home Minister Amit Shah holds discussions on the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) with groups and parties from the North-East on Friday and Saturday, 10 Members of Parliament from the North-East have written to the Prime Minister asking the North-East to be kept out...

NEW DELHI, Nov 27 BJP Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Darjeeling Raju Bista, who was born and brought up in Manipur, raised questions regarding the health of Loktak Lake and well being of the surrounding villagers/farmers in the Parliament's winter session today...

Mumbai, Nov 26 Devendra Fadnavis quit as Maharashtra Chief Minister on Tuesday, hours after his deputy Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar had tendered his resignation...

NEW DELHI, Nov 22 The Supreme Court on Friday upheld an order passed by the Manipur High Court which had quashed Manipur Civil Services Examination conducted by Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC) in 2016 and allowed it to be conducted afresh...

New Delhi, Nov 20 On the day Union Minister Amit Shah said NRC will be carried out across the country, including Assam, State Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appealed to the Centre to reject the updated NRC list...

NEW DELHI, Nov 19 At least three hill States of the North East, which have Inner Line Permit (ILP) System in place, are likely to be exempted from the purview of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill...

Govt holds talks with Manipur’s Naga body..

New Delhi, Nov 14 Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Jitendra Singh, yesterday visited and reviewed the progress of the North East Convention Centre being set up in Delhi. ..

New Delhi, Nov 9 Ruling on the decades-old dispute in the ancient city of Ayodhya, the Supreme Court on Saturday held that a temple would be built at the 2.77-acre piece of land in Ayodhya and ordered the Government to give Muslim parties an alternative 5-acre plot in a prominent place because they had been wronged twice, once in 1949 and then in 1992...

NEW DELHI, Nov 1 In his first interview to any media organisation, Yung Aung, chairman of the insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagaland's Khaplang faction (NSCN-K) speaks to CNN-News18 at length on the “struggle for freedom”, the future of Nagaland, the crackdown by Indian and Myanmar armies, and the role of China...

New Delhi, Oct 29 Naga rebel group National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) that has been part of ongoing talks for a peace accord with the Centre along with other groups is exploring the option of setting up base in Myanmar as there seems to be no breakthrough in the discussions...

New Delhi, Oct 24 Changing the status quo in guarding of Myanmar border would be a setback for operations against North Eastern insurgent groups based in Myanmar, the Army has said opposing the Union Home Ministry’s proposal to merge Assam Rifles with the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)...

New Delhi, Oct 22: The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to transfer all cases related to linking Aadhaar with social media accounts to itself...

PUNE, Oct 22 : A 101-year-old retired British Indian Army officer along with 270 members of his extended family across five generations have reportedly cast their vote in the Vadgaon-Sheri Constituency on October 21. The family members who ..

Chennai, Oct 13: The easy rapport between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping, as they continued their private conversation in this seaside resort on Saturday, led to the forging sister state ties between Tamil Nadu and China’s Fujian province...

Midnapore/Berhampore, Oct 13: An unidentified man was killed and two others were seriously injured in an assault by mobs in separate incidents in two districts of West Bengal early on Sunday, police said...

GUWAHATI, Oct 11 : Altogether 10 documentaries from the North East will be screened at the Yamagata ..

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a four-fold hike in assistance to the next of kin for all categories of ..

New Delhi, Sep 28: A day after Imran Khan used the United Nations platform to criticise India and warned of a “bloodbath” in Kashmir, India Saturday shot back at the Pakistan Prime Minister and said his threat of unleashing ..

New Delhi, Sep 28: A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Justice N V Ramana, will likely hear from Tuesday, October 1, a batch of petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of the amendment to Article 370..

CHENNAI, Sep 26 : Commandant Ngamlien Touthang, the Commanding Officer of Indian Coast Guard Ship - Rajkiran (ICGS Rajkiran) was conferred the Tatrakshak Medal (Gallantry Medal) by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the “Investiture Ceremony” held at Coast Guard Air Station in Chennai on September 24. The award was given in recognition of his heroic act in rescuing 22 crewmen from a burning merchant vessel SSL Kolkata on June 14, 2018 in Bay of Bengal, about 90 nautical miles from Haldia...

New Delhi, Sep 26 The Supreme Court Thursday asked parties in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute case to complete their arguments by October 18, adding that they won’t be given an extra day. Today is the 32nd day of hearing in the case...