New Delhi: The Centre yesterday announced that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA has come into force from January 10, 2020. In a gazette notification, the Union Home Ministry said that the Act under which non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship, will come into force from Jan. 10. “In…
Mysuru: Former Supreme Court Judge Justice B.N. Srikrishna said that the Centre’s decision to grant citizenship to religiously persecuted minorities from other countries under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not correct. He was speaking at an interaction on the topic ‘Is Human Rights a British Legacy?,’ organised by the Peoples Union For civil Liberties…
Mysuru: The Town Hall in the heart of the city was a sea of humanity this morning as over 10,000 people, majority of them from the minority community, assembled at the venue to stage anti-CAA and anti-NRC demonstration organised under the banner of Mysuru United Muslim Welfare Trust. Various other organisations such as DSS, University…
Mysuru: Even as protests continue to rage across the country opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the KR Unit of the BJP held ‘Janajagrutigagi Vichara Vinimaya,’ an awareness programme on CAA, marking the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Vidyashankara Kalyana Mantapa in Agrahara here yesterday. The programme in which many…
By T.J.S. George All of a sudden India is in the throes of a second independence movement. Across the country, streets are aflame with rebellion, campuses are reverberating with protests, people are defying the law and thousands are getting arrested. Just as it was when the nation fought British imperialism. A new swadeshi imperialism has…
Mysuru: Even as protests continue across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens(NRC), the JD(S) jumped into the bandwagon by staging a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office here this morning. Raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi,Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Union Government, MLA…
City Police impose restrictions to prevent rallies, protests today Mysuru: Members of various organisations numbering nearly 500 held a campaign in support of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Oval Grounds near Deputy Commissioner’s Office after they were denied permission for a peace rally this morning. The City Police have imposed Prohibitory Orders under Section 35…
Mysuru: Decrying the ongoing protests across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), senior BJP leader and former KEA Chairman Kautilya Raghu has said that the agitations were part of a bigger conspiracy to undermine the growing supremacy of India in the global map. In a press release, Raghu accused Congress leaders of fanning…
This morning I had a pleasant surprise in The Hindu. It had published a response to what the leader of the CPI (Marxist) and Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan had written in The Hindu titled “Time to defend India’s secularism,” on Dec. 18, 2019 expressing his opposition to Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA). Dr….
So, protests continue. While initially the protest was against leaving out illegal Muslims from Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), it has now moved to a ‘pre-emptive protest’ against National Register of Citizens (NRC). We say ‘pre-emptive’ because there is no draft in place for a nationwide NRC. Now, the protestors claim, if NRC is implemented and…
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