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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicAnti-CAA protests

Topic: Anti-CAA protests

Delhi riots acquittals: Hostile witnesses, unanswered questions & a ‘Kattar Hindu Ekta’ WhatsApp group

3 of the 9 murder cases involve the same set of accused. In these, all 12 Hindu men were acquitted by a Delhi court. Judgments in the remaining 6 cases are awaited.

Day after cops detained Jamia students, personal details of protesters put up at university gates

The students, suspended for protesting disciplinary action against 2 PhD scholars, claim they're getting threat calls & have slammed university for displaying their numbers, addresses.

Urdu press slams BJP’s ‘negative politics’ over CAA, says it creates psychological pressure on Muslims

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Shaheen Bagh roared against CAA 4 yrs ago. Now there’s an uneasy quiet, ‘no intentions to protest’

At Jamia Millia Islamia, students are speaking out against the implementation of the contentious law. Campus under heavy police and paramilitary deployment since govt announcement.

RJ defends Swara Bhasker’s marriage in a 2-word reply to Islamic scholar’s ‘unsolicited advice’

Bhasker and SP leader Fahad Ahmad registered their marriage on 6 January, 2023 in a court – three years after they first met at an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest in Mumbai.

‘No overt act or participation’ — why court discharged Sharjeel Imam, 10 others in 2019 Jamia case

Saket District Court Saturday discharged Imam, Safoora Zargar and others in anti-CAA protest-linked case. Court noted dissent needs to be encouraged, though its display should be peaceful.

‘Treated like criminal’ — Safoora Zargar denied MPhil thesis extension, Jamia says 3 already given

Zargar also claims her supervisor refused to help her, saying her admission was revoked. Jamia Millia Islamia says she submitted extension request late & her work was 'unsatisfactory'.

Male leadership won’t do. India’s Muslim community needs a woman in charge

India needs a modern Muslim woman who floats from English to Urdu, who is culturally Islamic but doesn’t necessarily dress the part. We need a hustler, not a rabble-rouser.

Govt seeks extension for framing rules of Citizenship Amendment Act till 9 January

MoS for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai was replying to Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on whether the govt had missed the deadline to frame and notify CAA rules.

Party alliance with Assam Jatiya Parishad over, says Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi

The two newly floated regional parties, which were borne out of anti-CAA sentiment, had joined hands in February this year and contested the Assam assembly election in March-April.

On Camera

Bondi Beach attack holds lessons for India too — soft targets remain terror’s first choice

India’s counter-terror focus must go beyond organised modules to include individual radicalisation, mental health-linked violence, and spontaneous attacks in public spaces.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.