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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicCitizenship Amendment Act

Topic: Citizenship Amendment Act

Won’t hear issue in atmosphere of violence: SC on anti-Citizenship Act protests

The Supreme Court said it, prima facie, does not think it can do much in the matter of alleged police brutality as it is a law and order problem, and said it wouldn’t be “bullied” into taking suo motu cognisance of the issue.

Protests continue unabated as anger over citizenship law spills to other universities

Day after the Jamia protests, college students across India carried out protests and boycotted classes, including those at BHU, Jadavpur University and TISS.

Injured Jamia students sat at police stations for hours ‘without food, water, medical help’

Students detained at Kalkaji and New Friends Colony police stations allege they were threatened and abused too. Police denies charges.

Delhi Police say they used ‘maximum restraint, minimum force’ during Jamia protest

The police said there was no firing or casualties in Sunday's violence, and said the crime branch will investigate what happened.

Jamia students demand CBI inquiry into ‘police brutality’, continue protest

A group of students from Jamia Millia University claimed that Delhi Police damaged two mosques on the university campus, beat up the Imam and also a blind student in the library on Sunday.

Prices of essential items drop as Guwahati gets back to normal, but tourists still stay away

Tour operators and hotels continue to face the brunt of the protests in Assam with many tourists cancelling their trips.

Pushed to the edge, young Indian Muslims are asked to not react

It’s not just about the new citizenship law or NRC. The pent-up anger among Indian Muslims is giving way.

Army says situation in northeast improving, will move back to barracks soon

The Army has about 24 Army columns allotted in Upper Assam and 12 columns in lower Assam to aid and administer law and order in the State.

P Phanjoubam on ignorance of Northeast, Manu Joseph says Citizenship Act has bad optics

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On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.