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Will seize property of guilty and compensate damage to public property: Yogi Adityanath talks tough with anti-CAA violence in UP

OpIndia Staff -
The warning of Yogi Adityanath has come in the backdrop of violent protests that broke out in Lucknow on Thursday
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Specials

Truth behind anti-CAA image shared by Farhan Akhtar: A Kashmiri separatist org that called Islamic terror org JKLF ‘secular’

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Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar on Wednesday shared an anti-CAA message on Twitter telling people why "these protests are important".
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News Reports

Burn your documents but do not show them to govt, bring 10 Muslims on board daily: Anti-CAA protests may have ‘ISIS funding’

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According to sources in the investigative agencies, the incidents of extreme violence happening all across the country have been funded by ISIS.
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Opinions

For Bollywood stars, anti-Padmaavat protest was terrorism, but burning buses during anti-CAA riots is dissent

Amit Kelkar -
What was terrorism in anti-Padmavat violence, becomes dissent during anti-CAA riots
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News Reports

Musharraf’s corpse should be dragged to D-Chowk in Islamabad, hanged for three days: Pakistan court

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Two of the three judges, Justice Seth and Justice Karim gave the death sentence while Justice Nazarullah Akbar wrote a dissenting note saying that the prosecution team could not prove treason case. 
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News Reports

Modi government dispels myths about CAA: Here are 19 FAQs and their answers

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With many spreading canards and misinformation regarding CAA, the Modi govt has released an FAQ that dispels myths
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Crime

Delhi HC dismisses plea filed by Nirbhaya’s murder convict seeking clemency claiming he was juvenile at time of offence

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The apex court in its 2017 verdict had upheld the capital punishment awarded to them by the Delhi HC and the trial court in the case.
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Opinions

Anti-CAA riot in Bengal, an eyewitness account: An announcement, stone pelting, arson and scared passengers trapped in a tin box

Sreejit Datta -
This eyewitness account is of the anti-CAA riot that erupted in Bengal: Spontaneous protests or terrorist violence?
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News Reports

Mumbai: Teenage schoolboys of top-ranked IB school talk about ‘raping’, ‘gang-banging’ classmates on WhatsApp, get suspended

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Taking cognizance of the matter, the school has suspended all of the eight boys.
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News Reports

Jamia riots: Lawyers of petitioners shout ‘shame shame’ as Delhi Court refuses to grant interim relief to rioters

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The court's decision came while hearing six petitions seeking medical treatment and compensation for injured students in the protests against CAA over the past few days. The court has set February 4 as the next date for hearing.
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News Reports

Violence erupts during 19th Dec protests: Here is why imposition of section 144 was necessary during Anti-CAA protest

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In wake of the anti-CAA protest calls, the administration of various cities and districts had imposed section 144 of the Indian Penal Code.
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News Reports

Media tried to ‘manufacture consent’ about the authenticity of anti-CAA protests: Here is how students foiled that attempt

K Bhattacharjee -
Protests erupted against CAA in liberal enclaves within a select few Universities in India.
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News Reports

USA honours Indian democracy, support protection of minority rights all over the world: US Sec of State Mike Pompeo

OpIndia Staff -
The top American diplomat stated that the USA honours Indian democracy and they care deeply about the protection of minority rights all over the world, when he was asked about protests in India over CAA.
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News Reports

Watch: Muslim mob in Gujarat’s Palanpur where MLA Jignesh Mevani led protests goes violent, attacks police van

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A Muslim mob in Palanpur, Gujarat, took to violence while protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
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Social Media

Allah has given us the right to Jihad, Amit Shah is playing with fire: Maulana incites Muslims to take up arms against govt of...

OpIndia Staff -
In the middle of his hate speech, the Maulana also claims that the rioters who had burnt down the deputy CM's headquarters in Assam and gheraoed the chief minister's residence were no one else but people of his community who had acted on their call.
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Opinions

Here is why the challenges to Citizenship Amendment Act will likely get laughed out of the Supreme Court

Abhishek Banerjee -
Here is why all so-called legal challenges to CAA are probably going to get laughed out of the Supreme Court.
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News Reports

Anti CAA protests: Protesters detained in several cities, Delhi protestors may have been mobilised from other states through WhatsApp

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Anti-CAA protests: Police is taking precautionary measures to prevent the cities from descending into anarchy
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News Reports

Anti-CAA protests: How Congress, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav’s party Swarajya Abhiyaan are fuelling protests

Nupur J Sharma -
WhatsApp group made to coordinate anti-CAA protests reveals the role of Swarajya Abhiyaan and Prashant Bhushan
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News Reports

In Winter 2019 ‘Award Wapsi’ season, Shashi Tharoor to accept Sahitya Akademi Award since it is not union govt nominated

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Thiruvananthapuram MP and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor won Sahitya Akademi Award for his book An Era of Darkness.
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Entertainment

Cricketer Virat Kohli tops Forbes India celebrity list 2019, Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar at close second

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Kohli has replaced Bollywood star Salman Khan. Khan is at number 3 after Akshay Kumar.
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News Reports

Anti-CAA protests: Ram Guha and Yogendra Yadav detained by police for protesting despite the imposition of Sec 144

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Despite Section 144, 'Historian' Ram Guha attempted to protests and has now been detained by the police.
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Politics

In contrast to Congress-friendly CMIE’s report, unemployment soars in Madhya Pradesh, rises by 7 lakh in a year

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A month back CMIE had stated unemployment in Madhya Pradesh was down by 40%
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News Reports

Anti-CAA protests: Sec 144 imposed in UP, Bangalore, Karnataka districts and parts of Delhi

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The police and security forces across the country have taken preventive measures under Section 144 of CrPC to counter violent protests that are allegedly planned in a few cities against the Citizenship Act on Thursday.
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News Reports

Goa: Members of rock band ‘Dastaan Live’ booked for hurting Hindu sentiments, had chanted ‘Om’ with abusive words

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Four members of Rock Band 'Dastaan Live' who were performing at Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa were arrested for hurting religious sentiments
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News Reports

‘Urban Naxals’ wanted to kill PM Modi like Rajiv Gandhi, intended to wage war against India: Draft charges of Elgar Parishad case

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The draft charges stated that all the 19 accused were conspiring to assassinate PM Narendra Modi during his roadshows in a manner similar to the killing of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. 
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News Reports

Gujarat: Amidst CAA row, Haseena, a Muslim woman from Pakistan granted Indian citizenship

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After living in India for a few years, Haseena ben had applied for Indian citizenship over a year back. She was granted Indian citizenship on 18 December 2019.
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News Reports

Digital media platform MyNation provides recourse to expelled students from MP’s Makhanlal Journalism University, offers job without requirement of graduation certificate

OpIndia Staff -
Digital news outlet MyNation has announced that the expelled students of MP's Makhanlal University will be given an option to work in the organisation.
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News Reports

2008 Jaipur blasts: Special court convicts four, holds Indian Mujahideen responsible for the attack that killed 80

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The special court upheld the prosecution's contention in 2008 Jaipur blasts case and also held the banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen for the attack.
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News Reports

Nirbhaya case convict moves Delhi HC claiming he was juvenile at time of offence, petition refers to him as ‘innocent boy’

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One of the death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, Pawan Kumar Gupta has sought clemency from the Delhi HC on the grounds of being juvenile at the time of committing the crime
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News Reports

Section 144 imposed in Bengaluru and parts of Karnataka as Peoples Forum, a consortium of Left-wing and Muslim organisations call for a bandh

OpIndia Staff -
Karnataka CM Yediyurappa has also said that the Citizenship Act will be implemented in the state
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Opinions

Leaving out Muslims is not ‘glaringly discriminatory’: A Response to the open letter published in the web portal, The Leaflet to Harish Salve, Sr....

Shubhendu Anand -
It becomes necessary to evaluate the political and legal dimensions of the CAA in order to draw a distinction between truth and propaganda.
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Politics

When anti-CAA protesters claim architects of Moplah massacre as ‘freedom fighters’, it’s clear that they want “Hinduon Se Azadi”

K Bhattacharjee -
The Secular-Liberal establishment can continue to pretend otherwise but the country will not be fooled.
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News Reports

Saffron-clad netas don’t marry but rape women: JMM’s Hemant Soren makes vulgar remark

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The chief of the Congress ally made the vulgar remark on the last day of campaigning for the fifth phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections
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News Reports

Seelampur violence: Announcements for mobilisation were made from local Mosques, says report

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"Announcements were made in the locality since two-three days asking us to mobilise people to protest against the NRC. We were asked to gather on Tuesday," said a protestor speaking to India Today.
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News Reports

Watch: ‘Hum de ke rahenge azaadi’ slogans chanted by DU students supporting CAA

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DU students were responding to the slogans raised by Jamia Nagar rioters during the anti-CAA riots at the Jamia Millia Islamia University
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News Reports

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh likens Jamia riots with 2002 Gujarat riots, says no Muslim can trust Modi

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Congress leader Digvijaya Singh resorts to fear-mongering by comparing Jamia riots with the 2002 Gujarat riots
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Politics

BJP’s Kailash Vijayvargiya shares videos of being surrounded by Muslim mob, says WB government showed no concerns to his safety

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West Bengal has been turned into a war zone after anti-CAA rioters had unleashed chaos in the state. Several trains had been damaged, railway stations vandalised and buses have been burnt.
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News Reports

Khilafat 2.0: How Useful Idiots in the media and political parties were fooled by Jamia students associated with the ‘blood brother’ of a banned...

K Bhattacharjee -
The Jamia protests cannot be disassociated from the violence in Delhi in any manner. There is an insidious design at work here and we have to confront it.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Indira Canteens to be renamed to Maharshi Valmiki Anna Kuteera

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Soon after Yediyurappa had taken oath as CM, there was a proposal to change the name of the canteen to Annapoorna. 
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Crime

West Bengal: DCP trying to arrest railway station vandals injured as violent mob hurls bomb at police

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The anti-CAA rioters in West Bengal have been resorting to endless vandalism and arson attacks. DCP Yadav was chasing the persons behind the Sankrail railway station vandalism when a local mob hurled bombs at the police.
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Politics

Karnataka: Muslim MLA threatens he will blow up the state if CAA is implemented

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Khader claimed that PM Modi and Amit Shah are trying to 'divide the country in the name of religion' after returning to power. Calling the CAA 'unconstitutional', Khader said that they will never submit the documents to prove that their citizenship.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Man sets wife on fire for ‘serving less mutton’ in dinner

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The accused identified as Maruti Sarode (38) is a daily wage labourer from Nanded
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News Reports

AMU: FIR against Dr Kafeel Khan for provocative AMU speech on CAA and NRC

OpIndia Staff -
Kafeel Khan was booked under section 153-A on the 13th of December for his speech in Aligarh which was allegedly provocative and an attempt to vitiate the atmosphere and spread communal disharmony.
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Editor's picks

Nirbhaya case: SC rejects review petition filed by convict but Delhi HC does not give death warrant, next hearing on 7th January

OpIndia Staff -
Upholding the 2017 verdict, the apex court dismissed the review petition saying “it did not find any error on the face of it."
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Social Media Fact-Check

Read why “facts” about CAA and NRC shared by Farhan Akhtar are all false or misleading

OpIndia Staff -
Shockingly, the parts of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Aksai Chin are also missing from the Indian map in the infographic posted by Farhan Akhtar.
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News Reports

Kerala: SFI goons brutally thrash ABVP workers trying to conduct a seminar on CAA

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Each day it's becoming clearer that these so-called ‘student movement’ against CAA is actually a well planned and coordinated effort to fan communal violence.
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News Reports

The return of Award Wapsi: One Urdu writer Mujtaba Hussain to return his Padma Shri award as his “conscience is pricking him”

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Mujtaba Hussain was awarded a Padma Shri in 2007.
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Politics

Shiv Sena skips the opposition party delegation to meet President Kovind led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi

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The delegation of some opposition parties that met President Kovind had asked him to urge the government to 'rollback the CAA'.
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Crime

Police investigation reveals accused in Hyderabad veterinarian’s rape and murder may have been serial killers

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The investigative team now believes that two of the four accused were involved in at least 15 similar cases
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Politics

Tamil Nadu: AIADMK MP Mohammed John gets expelled from Jamat Federation for voting in favour of CAB in parliament

OpIndia Staff -
The decision to remove him from the post was taken reportedly after Jamaat across the state and the local Muslim community in Ranipet had put pressure following his vote in support of the CAB.
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