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Tuesday, August 12, 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Zargar also claims her supervisor refused to help her, saying her admission was revoked.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

The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.