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Updated on Dec 22, 2021 05:19 PM IST
hindustantimes.com, New Delhi
Parliament grants Centre more time to frame citizenship rules under CAA
The Lok Sabha granted Centre time till April 9, while the Rajya Sabha has given it till July 9 to frame the new citizenship law rules.
Updated on Mar 23, 2021 06:09 PM IST
PTI |
Grant of citizenship only after CAA rules notified, Centre tells HC
The home ministry told a parliamentary panel in early April that the government would need three months to notify the rules
Updated on Sep 07, 2020 11:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jodhpur | HT Correspondent
CAA threatens Assamese culture and identity, says plea in Supreme Court
The petitioner, All Assam Law Students Union, submitted that the CAA dilutes the constitutional and legal safeguards given to the Assamese people by various laws and the Assam Accord of 1985.
Updated on May 20, 2020 09:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Murali Krishnan | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi
Chinmayanand, Sengar’s poster surfaces next to UP’s ‘name and shame’ CAA hoardings
The poster has the photographs of Kuldeep Sengar and Chinmayanand as well as the details of the cases against them.
Updated on Mar 13, 2020 11:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
UP govt’s ‘name and shame’ hoardings not backed by law, remarks SC at hearing challenging high court verdict
Highlighting the issue of privacy, Justice UU Lalit said that while the court agrees there should not be unruly behaviour, there must be some law which backs the action of putting up the hoardings.
Updated on Mar 12, 2020 12:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘They have been wrong before’: Foreign minister Jaishankar on UNHRC’s CAA move
India has already said the citizenship act is an internal matter of India and that no foreign party has a locus standi on issues related to the country’s sovereignty.
Updated on Mar 07, 2020 04:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Delhi violence: Action must be taken, Gautam Gambhir hits out at Kapil Mishra
The comments by Gautam Gambhir, who represents East Delhi in the Lok Sabha, came after violence spun out of control in northeast Delhi over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Monday.
Updated on Feb 25, 2020 08:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Woman held for Pak slogan at CAA rally
The woman, identified as Amulya, asked people to shout with her “Pakistan Zindabad” after the organisers of the event under the banner of “Save Constitution” invited her to address the gathering. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who was one of the speakers at the event, snatched the mike from her and denounced her action.
Updated on Feb 21, 2020 06:21 AM IST
Bengaluru | Agencies
Thousands take to streets in Chennai against citizenship law
Agitators carrying placards against CAA, NRC and NPR, besides the Indian flag, converged at Chepauk as part of their original plan to lay seige to the Tamil Nadu Assembly and protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Updated on Feb 19, 2020 01:10 PM IST
Chennai | Press Trust of India
If something goes wrong, will protest leaders atone like Mahatma: RSS chief
Bhagwat’s comments, made at the launch of a book on the relevance of Mahatma Gandhi by former NCERT director JS Rajput, came in the backdrop of the nationwide protests against the amended citizenship act and the proposed National Register of Citizens.
Published on Feb 18, 2020 03:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Telangana to pass anti-CAA resolution, urges Centre ‘not to discriminate’ on basis of religion
The Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Rao, felt the CAA would lead to discrimination on the basis of religion in grant of citizenship and jeopardise secularism envisaged in the Constitution.
Updated on Feb 17, 2020 12:11 AM IST
Hyderabad | Press Trust of India
AAP’s Amanatullah Khan widens lead against BJP’s Brahm Singh in Okhla, home to Shaheen Bagh
Delhi election result 2020: The Okhla assembly seat, one of the 70 constituencies in Delhi, a Muslim majority area with Shaheen Bagh and Jamia Nagar was thrust into the national spotlight after protesters blocked a major road demanding the repeal of the contentious citizenship act.
Updated on Feb 11, 2020 01:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘Who are you showing your strength?’: Raj Thackeray asks anti-CAA protestors
While Mixed signals on CAA and NRC have come out from the Maharasthra government, Raj Thackeray’s stand was unambiguous.
Updated on Sep 11, 2020 10:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | HT Correspondent
‘If you are secular, your citizenship will be questioned someday’: Chidambaram
Resistance to CAA in some pockets has sometimes been described as anti-national, mostly by the leaders of the ruling party, the BJP.
Updated on Feb 09, 2020 04:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
CAA no threat to Muslims, NPR ‘very, very essential’: Rajinikanth weighs in
Rajinikanth also said that the central government has assured that Indians will have no issues in view of the citizenship act. He also wondered how Muslims, who chose to stay back in India following Partition, will be sent out of the country.
Updated on Sep 09, 2020 08:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Delhi Assembly Election 2020: Shaheen Bagh will be cleared, says Anurag Thakur as he predicts BJP’s clean sweep
Delhi Assembly Election 2020: The colony in southeast Delhi has seen residents, mostly women, sitting in a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act for nearly three months now.
Updated on Feb 05, 2020 07:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
In President Ram Nath Kovind’s address, spotlight on Citizenship Act and a jibe at Pakistan
The CAA seeks to fast-track citizenship to persecuted minorities from three neighbouring countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
Updated on Sep 05, 2020 10:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘Leave him, leave him’: Amit Shah as crowd pummels man for anti-CAA slogans
The student raised slogans against the amended citizenship act when Shah was talking about the CAA at the poll meeting in Babarpur constituency on Sunday evening.
Updated on Sep 03, 2020 10:07 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
West Bengal becomes the 4th state to pass resolution against Citizenship Act
Loud slogans were raised intermittently against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union home minister Amit Shah during discussions on the resolution. All lawmakers called the CAA anti-people, divisive and discriminatory.
Updated on Jan 27, 2020 05:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | HT Correspondent
In Congress’ Republic Day gift to PM Modi, a copy of Constitution
It looked like a mock gift intended to make a political point in the wake of protests after the Centre got the amended Citizenship Act passed in Parliament.
Updated on Sep 01, 2020 04:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Pro-BJP Gorkha parties support Mamata Banerjee’s drive against citizenship act, say ‘it will harm our people’
Exclusion of an estimated 1 lakh names belonging to the Gorkha community from the NRC in Assam had triggered panic in Darjeeling last year.
Updated on Jan 24, 2020 09:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Siliguri | Pramod Giri
From Delhi to Hyderabad: How Shaheen Bagh-type protest has galvanised people
The peaceful flame of resistance has spread beyond the national capital and across the country.
Updated on Jan 23, 2020 04:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Framers put forth a plural, secular basis for citizenship
The plural basis of citizenship was carried into the Citizenship Act, 1955 whose primary purpose was to determine the principle of “acquisition and termination” of citizenship to supplement the constitutional provisions.
Published on Jan 23, 2020 07:15 AM IST
Shadan Farasat
University, college students in northeast boycott classes in protest against citizenship act
Thousands of students in Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh abstained from attending classes with some taking part in demonstrations and sit-in hunger strike as a show of solidarity to the protests taking place in the region against CAA since December last year.
Updated on Jan 22, 2020 02:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Guwahati | Utpal Parashar
In Ram Vilas Paswan’s pitch to amend NPR form, a message to ally BJP
On Tuesday, Paswan, who is also a Union minister, said in Patna that it was at his instance that the Home Ministry agreed to “amend” the NPR forms.
Updated on Jan 22, 2020 01:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Smriti Kak Ramachandran
Supreme Court declines to put CAA on hold, gives Centre 4 weeks to respond
Updated on Aug 30, 2020 10:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Murali Krishnan
In JP Nadda’s CAA defence, a 10-line speech challenge to Rahul Gandhi
BJP working president JP Nadda further accused the Congress leader of speaking without knowing all the attendant facts.
Updated on Jan 17, 2020 05:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
No documents will be asked or biometric taken for NPR: Home Ministry
The NPR is a register of usual residents of the country. It is being prepared at the local (village/sub-town), subdistrict, district, state and national levels under provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.
Updated on Jan 15, 2020 11:32 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Youth, students will explode in anger: Chidambaram warns govt about slowing economy
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has been facing a wave of protests on the streets and campuses across the country as students and others have questioned its intentions over the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA.
Updated on Jan 14, 2020 09:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent