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Germany to ease citizenship rules for children of foreign parents: Report

The interior ministry also plans to relax some language requirements for elderly immigrants and make it easier for people to hold multiple nationalities.

More than 1.6 lakh Indians gave up their citizenship in 2021: Govt data

The data was released by Union minister of state (MoS) of home affairs Nityanand Rai as a reply to Haji Fazlur Rehman, a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP in Lok Sabha.

UAE amends citizenship law for expatriates. All you need to know.

The changes to the law on nationality and passports will allow expatriates to become dual citizens for the first time. Dual citizenship was earlier banned in the Emirates.

Gauhati High Court rejects anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi’s bail plea

The decision by a division bench of the court has dashed hopes of his supporters across Assam who had been hoping that he would get released soon to take part in the upcoming assembly polls in the state.

Citizenship law to be enforced once rules are made, says JP Nadda

The citizenship issue is bound to have an effect on the assembly polls due in about five months as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has declared that she will never enforce it.

HC refuses relief to Canadian citizen whose OCI card was cancelled after divorce

‘PM Modi’s citizenship law gave respect to refugees in India’: Amit Shah

Billed the Bihar Jansamvad Rally, this is the first in a series of virtual meetings that Shah will address. He will address the people of Odisha and West Bengal through virtual rallies on June 8 and June 9 respectively.

Jamia student held for involvement in north-east Delhi riots

Joint commissioner of police (special cell) Neeraj Thakur confirmed the arrest of Meeran Haider but did not share further details.

‘All students passed except…’: Jamia teacher tweets a row on CAA, suspended

AP Siddiqui, registrar of the university, issued the suspension order for the teacher. It said the faculty member had tweeted that all students “except 15 non-Muslims have been passed as they did not support” the Citizenship Amendment Act protests.

HC quashes ‘leave India’ notice issued to Polish student for anti-CAA rally

The court said the right to life and personal liberty includes that to have political views and participate in political activities as guaranteed to all people in India. It said the right cannot be curtailed or fettered.

Forced to enter Jamia to stop violence, says Delhi Police

Delhi Police said it got difficult to distinguish between rioters and students and all of them had to be evacuated.

UP seeks time to file report on CAA hoardings in HC

Additional advocate general Neeraj Tripathi said the state government’s main thrust of the argument in its plea was that its special leave petition (SLP) against the High Court’s March 9 order was pending before the Supreme Court (SC) and the apex court had referred it to a larger bench.

Indonesia summons envoy over CAA protests, Delhi violence

There have been protests against the violence in New Delhi near the Indian missions in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and Medan, the largest city of North Sumatra province, since the beginning of March.

Centre must talk to states to clear CAA, NPR doubts: RSS

The CAA’s passage in December to fast-track the citizenship process for non-Muslims, who have entered India from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh before December 31, 2014, triggered protests across the country.

Shaheen Bagh protesters will have to follow ban on gathering over coronavirus: Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal announced the new steps during a press conference after reviewing the city government’s efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Guv promulgates ordinance to recover damages in UP

The state cabinet had approved the Uttar Pradesh Recovery of Damage to Public and Private Property Ordinance — 2020 last Friday.

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.

Activist Sadaf Jafar, ex-IPS officer SR Darapuri hail HC order on anti-CAA posters in UP

SR Darapuri and Sadaf Jafar were earlier arrested in December in connection with anti-CAA protests in Lucknow.

‘Undemocratic’: High Court roasts UP govt on posters of anti-CAA protesters

The Allahabad High Court on Sunday had deferred its order on the matter but had rapped the Uttar Pradesh government for its act of putting up such hoardings.

India rejects global criticism of CAA, Delhi violence; calls comments ‘irresponsible’

Leaders of countries such as Turkey, Iran and Malaysia too have reiterated their criticism of these issues even though India had described their past remarks on these matters as interference in the country’s internal matters.

‘Not acceptable’: India rejects Iranian minister’s criticism of north-east Delhi violence

External affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said Chegeni was summoned and a “strong protest was lodged against the unwarranted remarks made by the Iranian foreign minister”.

‘Don’t let senseless thuggery prevail’: Iran to India on Delhi riots

Ministry of External Affairs had urged international bodies last week to not make irresponsible statements at this sensitive time.

Police fired in air but missed aim, 3 anti-CAA protesters killed: Assam govt

To a query by Congress MLA Rekibuddin Ahmed, Patowary said 573 people were arrested so far in 430 cases relating to protests against the amended citizenship law.

At Naveen Patnaik’s lunch, Mamata Banerjee and Amit Shah on same table

Mamata Banerjee has been one of the fiercest critics of the new citizenship law passed by Parliament in December last year.

UN chief ‘very saddened’ by casualties in Delhi violence

Communal violence over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in northeast Delhi killed at least 34 people and left over 200 injured till Thursday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.

Don’t air content promoting ‘anti-national’ attitude: Govt to TV channels over Delhi violence

Fresh violence tore through northeast Delhi on Tuesday, taking the death toll in the communal clashes over the amended citizenship law to 13.

Meeting with Amit Shah was positive, all parties will take steps to restore peace: Arvind Kejriwal

Shah on Tuesday held a meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in the national capital after violence in northeast Delhi over the amended citizenship law left seven people, including a head constable, dead.

4 killed, nearly 60 injured during clashes in northeast Delhi over CAA

Lt Governor Anil Baijal tweeted soon after that he had instructed Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik to restore the law and order situation. Later in the evening, home secretary Ajay Bhalla told reporters that the situation had been brought under control.

Vehicles, houses set on fire, as clashes continue between pro and anti CAA protesters in east Delhi’s Maujpur

Buildings around the metro station at Maujpur have suffered damages and windows of many of them have been smashed.

People gather near Delhi’s Jaffrabad metro station to protest against CAA, NRC

The women, carrying the national tricolour and raising slogans of ‘aazadi’, said they would not move from the site till the Centre revoke Citizenship (Amendment) Act.