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Nitish open to debating CAA in Bihar assembly, his ‘clarification’ adds to JD(U) confusion

After supporting new citizenship law in Parliament, JD(U) has appeared like a divided house over CAA-NRC-NPR. Party chief & Bihar CM Nitish Kumar isn’t helping.

BJP distances itself from Modi-Shivaji comparison in book as protests heat up

BJP leader Jay Bhagwan Goyal, whose book 'Aaj ke Shivaji: Narendra Modi' sparked a backlash from opposition parties in Maharashtra, said he would 'revise' parts of it.

Led by Sonia Gandhi, opposition parties discuss CAA protests as BSP, AAP, TMC skip meet

The Congress and other parties are looking to take the students' movement against Modi govt's CAA and NRC forward, and have lent support to the cause, sources said.

Why 100 UP BJP MLAs are upset with Yogi, and questioning his ‘zero-tolerance’ on corruption

BJP MLAs staged a sit-in protest against CM Yogi Adityanath in the assembly on 17 December, and their anger doesn’t seem to have subsided even now.

Prashant Kishor thanks Congress, Rahul and Priyanka for anti-CAA resolution, says no CAA in Bihar

Kishor, the JDU VP, had hit out at the Congress last month for not stridently opposing the controversial legislation.

Modi delivers poll speeches in Bengal, invokes Gandhi to defend CAA, hits out at Mamata

Prime Minister also renames the 150-year-old Kolkata Port Trust after the Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mukherjee.

HM Shah challenges Opposition to find CAA provision that removes any Indian’s citizenship

Amit Shah attacked the Congress and said that the party had divided the country on the basis of religion when partition took place.

RJD wants to run Bihar alliance on its own terms this time, but others not playing ball

Lalu Prasad-led party wants to ‘rectify’ its mistake of conceding more seats to allies than they deserved in the 2019 Lok Sabh polls. This time it wants 150 out of 243 seats.

JP Nadda to replace Amit Shah as new BJP president by 20 January, before Delhi elections

The appointment was delayed because of last year’s Lok Sabha elections.

Mamata Banerjee first meets PM Modi at Raj Bhavan & then shouts anti-CAA slogans

Mamata dubs her 13-minute meet with PM as ‘constitutional responsibility’, asks him to withdraw the contentious CAA. Modi invokes Bengali icons separately.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.