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Curfew relaxed in Guwahati for 9 hrs as protests against citizenship law ebb
There have been no large disturbances in Assam since Thursday but mobile internet services still remain suspended across much of the state.

Updated on Dec 14, 2019 11:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Plea in Supreme Court against ‘discriminatory’ Citizenship Bill
The petitioners claimed that the law has been enacted with an ulterior motive in order to save approximately 1-1.5 million Hindus who were excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. A total of 1.9 million people have been excluded from NRC.

Updated on Dec 13, 2019 02:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
News updates from Hindustan Times at 1 pm: IUML challenges new citizenship law in Supreme Court, say it’s unconstitutional and all the latest news at this hour
Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion at 1 PM. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

Updated on Dec 12, 2019 12:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
Decoding the Winter Session: The Parliament’s 8 big legislations
The contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was passed on December 11 in the Rajya Sabha and on December 9 in the Lok Sabha.

Published on Dec 12, 2019 12:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
‘Now we can fly like a bird’: Pakistani Hindus in Delhi on citizenship bill
The citizenship bill seeks to give Indian nationality to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31.

Published on Dec 12, 2019 11:23 AM IST
New Delhi |
Press Trust of India
‘Nothing to worry ’: PM Modi assures Assam on citizenship bill
A curfew has been enforced in Guwahati, the principal city in Assam, where the army was called in on Wednesday night after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets against the bill.

Updated on Aug 04, 2020 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
Congress discontent may have forced Sena to change stance on citizenship bill
The Sena on Monday voted in favour of the bill in the Lok Sabha, but on Tuesday afternoon, Shiv Sena chief and Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray backtracked, saying they had apprehensions over a few issues and would not back the bill in the Rajya Sabha until their concerns were addressed

Updated on Dec 12, 2019 08:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai |
Surendra P Gangan and Swapnil Rawal
391 Afghani, 1595 Pak migrants granted Indian citizenship in last 3 years
Responding to a question by member of Parliament Kirodi Lal Meena, Rai informed the Rajya Sabha that the data related to Hindus and Sikh refugees who came from Afghanistan and Pakistan was not centrally maintained.

Updated on Dec 12, 2019 05:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘Landmark day’: PM Modi after Rajya Sabha greenlights citizenship bill
In the Rajya Sabha, 125 MPs voted for the citizenship bill, while 105 voted against it. Besides BJP, its allies such as JD-U and SAD, the legislation was supported by AIADMK, BJD, TDP and YSR-Congress.

Updated on Aug 04, 2020 12:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Amit Shah responds to Shiv Sena on citizenship bill. It is a biting retort
The Sena’s change in stance was driven by its brand-new alliance partner in Maharashtra, the Congress, who had conveyed its discomfort at its stand in Parliament.

Updated on Dec 11, 2019 08:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
JDU orders its leaders to fall in line on CAB, Prashant Kishor steps over it
The two JD (U) leaders found support from party MLC Gulam Rasool Balyawi, who also urged party national president and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to reconsider the decision to support the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) in the Lok Sabha, keeping in mind the public sentiments.

Updated on Dec 11, 2019 06:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Vijay Swaroop
In Shiv Sena’s new line on citizenship bill, a phone call played a role
According to a top Congress leader, the party leadership reached out the its new ally in Maharashtra Shiv Sena on Tuesday to convey that their stand in Lok Sabha over the bill was uncalled for.

Updated on Dec 11, 2019 03:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Surendra P Gangan
India’s record on internet shutdown gets bleaker; now blocked in 2 NE states
India reported over 100 internet shutdown in 2018, according to an annual study of Freedom House, a US-based non-profit research organization

Updated on Dec 11, 2019 06:08 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
‘In golden letters on Jinnah’s grave’: Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien counters PM Modi on Citizenship Bill
The bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday where he said it is the government’s attempt to give a dignified life to persecuted minorities in three of India’s neighbouring countries.

Updated on Sep 24, 2020 08:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Smiriti Kak
No question of concern, no one will harass Muslims: Amit Shah on CAB debate
Through this bill, once it becomes law, the Narendra Modi government is going to give legal status to these provisions which will give the minorities an honourable life, the Home Minister said.

Updated on Aug 03, 2020 11:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
BJP MPs give Modi standing ovation for CAB, he requests one for Karnataka
While Home Minister Amit Shah wasn’t present at the meeting, ahead of the bill being introduced in the Rajya Sabha, the Prime Minister also apologised for missing the last two meetings.

Updated on Aug 03, 2020 11:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Sunetra Choudhury
‘Speaking Pak’s language’: PM Modi stings Oppn ahead of Rajya Sabha vote on CAB
The citizenship bill will expedite Indian citizenship for non-Muslims from the three countries who arrived in the country before 31 December 2014.

Updated on Aug 03, 2020 11:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
‘Criminal attack on Northeast’, says Rahul Gandhi as Citizenship Bill heads to Rajya Sabha
Rahul Gandhi, Congress’s MP from Wayanad in Kerala, has been targeting the central government for bringing in CAB, alleging it will destroy the foundation of the nation.

Updated on Aug 03, 2020 11:03 PM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
Baby dies as ambulance got stuck during 11-hr Tripura bandh over citizenship bill
Baby dies as ambulance got stuck during 11-hr Tripura bandh over citizenship bill

Updated on Dec 11, 2019 07:33 AM IST
Agartala |
Press Trust of India
Shiv Sena backed citizenship bill in Lok Sabha. Now it has 2 conditions
The Shiv Sena had supported the bill when Home Minister Amit Shah tabled it in the Lok Sabha or Lower House of Parliament on Monday.

Updated on Dec 10, 2019 06:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai |
HT Correspondent
‘Motivated’: Govt responds to US Commission statement on citizenship bill
The Lok Sabha, late on Monday night, passed the contentious citizenship bill that grants citizenship to religious minorities from three Muslim-majority countries in India’s neighbourhood

Updated on Dec 10, 2019 04:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
US commission seeks sanctions against Amit Shah if citizenship bill passed
According to the proposed legislation, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, till December 31, 2014 facing religious persecution there, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.

Updated on Dec 10, 2019 11:37 AM IST
Washington |
Press Trust of India
‘Unconstitutional’, battleground to shift to SC: Chidambaram on citizenship bill
The citizenship bill was passed in the Lok Sabha with 311 members favouring it, 80 voting against it and zero abstentions, after a heated debate.

Updated on Dec 10, 2019 09:38 AM IST
New Delhi |
Press Trust of India
In Amit Shah’s citizenship bill push, a message to migrants in Mamata’s Bengal
The bill proposes to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, and seeks to grant citizenship to illegal non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, who allegedly suffered religious persecution there and returned to India before December 31, 2014.

Updated on Aug 03, 2020 04:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
In Amit Shah’s push to citizenship bill, sharp attack on Congress over Partition
A headcount carried out at the end of the debate on parliament’s legislative competence voted overwhelmingly - 293 in support vs 82 against - in favour of introducing the bill.

Updated on Dec 09, 2019 02:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Zia Haq
News updates from Hindustan Times at 1 pm: Is citizenship bill for ‘invisible Hindu-Muslim partition’? Sena questions Centre and all the latest news at this hour
Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion at 1 PM. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

Published on Dec 09, 2019 12:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Is citizenship bill for ‘invisible Hindu-Muslim partition’? Sena questions Centre
The Sena, in an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, also questioned whether “selective acceptance” of Hindu illegal immigrants will act as a trigger for a religious war in the country.

Updated on Aug 03, 2020 02:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | HT Correspondent
News updates from Hindustan Times at 9 am: Contentious citizenship bill set to be tabled in Lok Sabha today and all the latest news at this hour
Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion at 9 AM. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

Published on Dec 09, 2019 08:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
News updates from Hindustan Times at 9 am: Shiv Sena may back Centre’s citizenship bill, Uddhav Thackeray to take a call today and all the latest news at this hour
Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion at 9 AM. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

Published on Dec 08, 2019 08:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Shiv Sena may back Centre’s citizenship bill, Uddhav Thackeray to take a call today
The bill aims to provide citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from the neighbouring nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.

Updated on Dec 08, 2019 05:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Swapnil Rawal