About 62 per cent of the citizens of the country are in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Act, while about 68 per cent citizens in Assam are against the Act, according to a IANS-CVoter snap poll released on Saturday. ....

The Telangana High Court on Saturday ordered second autopsy on the bodies of four accused of Hyderabad veterinarian's rape and murder case who were gunned down by the police in an alleged encounter on December 6. ....

Amid the statewide stir over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday tasked his ministers to fight the rumours and misinformations being spread about the new Act. ....

The Council of Ministers' meeting headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi began on Saturday at the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra in Chanakyapuri here. ....

In a surprise turnabout, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray on Saturday termed the recent political developments in the state as an "insult" to the people. ....

A US Congressman in the House of Representatives commended India for ending gender, caste and religious discrimination in Jammu and Kashmir by nullifying the special status of the state and also applauded the multiparty support that the Narendra Modi government received in Indian Parliament over Kashmir. ....

A Delhi court on Friday sentenced Kuldeep Singh Sengar to life in prison in the 2017 Unnao case for raping a minor. ....

The Central government has appealed to the people not to get misled by the rumours and doubts over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act - CAA, and National Register of Citizens (NRC), as violent protests broke out across the country over the two issues. ....

Students, youths, celebrities, human rights activists, teachers, and common people walked together on the streets of Kolkata on Thursday in a rally organised mainly through a Facebook campaign against CAA and NRC. ....

At least three people were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow and Karnataka's Mangaluru as violence broke out during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in various places on Thursday. ....

Amid the ongoing protests across the country against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday tweeted on granting "fast track" citizenship to former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, who has been sentenced to death in a high treason case. ....

Did Congress demand a Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in 2003 which it is so vehemently protesting against? The BJP on Thursday released an archive footage of Rajya Sabha proceedings in 2003, where former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is seen to be making an appeal for the same. ....

Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPc have been imposed in the whole of Uttar Pradesh and no permission for an assembly or gathering in the state has been given on Thursday. ....

A Delhi court while hearing the Nirbhaya gang rape case on Wednesday told the victim's mother that "We know somebody has died but they (convicts) too have some legal rights." ....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition of Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts on death row, seeking review of death penalty handed down to him in Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. ....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said there would be no stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act and fixed January 22 as the date to conduct hearing on nearly 60 petitions challenging the Act. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that agitations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) are 100 per cent politically sponsored as some parties are trying to draw a wedge between Hindus and Muslims and that "no citizen needs to fear from NRC and CAA". ....

An IPS officer and two other police personnel were injured when bombs were hurled at them during an anti-CAA procession in Sankrail of West Bengal's Howrah district on Tuesday. ....

Fresh Protests have erupted in North East Delhi, Seelampur area on Tuesday afternoon against the Citizenship Amendment Act. ....

The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests are heating up in Delhi and across several parts of the country but former Congress President Rahul Gandhi is missing the action as he has left for South Korea on an official tour. His sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led the protest at the India Gate against alleged police crackdown on students of Jamia Millia Islamia. ....