The Assam government has drawn flak for restricting education department employees from taking part in “political activities”, a step seen by many as an effort to gag the voice of the teachers, ma...

An unusually mellow Amit Shah appeared on television on Tuesday to firmly deny any link between the National Population Register (NPR) exercise and the proposed contentious National Register of Citize...

Deepak Kabir, a well-known theatre actor and director in Lucknow, has been in jail since Friday allegedly because he had visited Hazratganj police station to find out whether some of his missing frien...

Pune district officials have banned “placards, banners and sloganeering” relating to the new citizenship law and the NRC at the January 1 anniversary celebrations of a 1818 battle at Koregaon Bhim...

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Uttar Pradesh police on Monday branded some of Friday’s “rioters” in Muzaffarnagar as “outsiders” from Kargil, Leh and Bhopal, a day after accusing people from Malda and Kashmir of resorting...

The Binay Tamang faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has called a 24-hour general strike in the area under the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration on December 29 to demand Inner Line Permit in the...

Bengal governor and Jadavpur University chancellor Jagdeep Dhankhar faced protests, “go back” slogans and uncomfortable questions about Citizenship (Amendment) Act and NRC from students on Monday ...

Massive popular protests, even when intending to be peaceful, may result in some violence. That is happening sporadically in many parts of the country as the protests against the Citizenship (Amendmen...

Carol singing, which is one of the main hallmarks during the days leading up to Christmas, was affected this year because of night curfew in the city.Churches in the city are yet to complete preparati...