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TopicCitizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019

Topic: Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019

Citizenship bill protests forces railways to cancel, reschedule trains

At least 14 trains have either been cancelled, short terminated or diverted anticipating disruptions due to the protests, Northeast Frontier Railway said.

PM Modi says opposition is speaking Pakistan’s language on citizenship bill

At BJP parliamentary party meeting, Modi compares citizenship bill to his govt's Article 370 decision & says it will provide permanent relief to minorities.

600 writers, activists, ex-judges ask Modi govt to withdraw ‘divisive’ citizenship bill

In an open letter, they asked the govt not to betray the Constitution. The signatories included Romila Thapar, Yogendra Yadav, Nandita Das, Aparna Sen.

Threat of sanctions didn’t work in Vajpayee’s time, won’t work now: VHP on citizenship bill

Responding to the USCIRF’s statement, VHP’s working president Alok Kumar congratulated Amit Shah on Lok Sabha passing the Citizenship Amendment Bill, and said India will stand resolute in helping persecuted refugees.

CAB is Amit Shah’s cure for unemployment, and the world is our family (conditions apply)

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On CAB: Priyanka Gandhi says India’s ‘tryst with bigotry’ & Owaisi’s message to Indians

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

‘Secular’ in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena now makes its support to citizenship bill conditional

Shiv Sena supported the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha even as its new allies Congress and NCP termed the proposed law ‘unconstitutional’.

How foreign media criticised citizenship bill being passed in Lok Sabha

While US and Pakistani media outlets were critical of the passage of the bill, Bangladeshi newspapers merely reported the news.

EU concerned by Kashmir situation & Citizenship Bill, calls for India-Pakistan dialogue

European Union Ambassador to India Ugo Astuto said the 28-nation bloc has also been pushing Pakistan to "fall in line" as far as state-sponsored terror funding is concerned.

Citizenship (Amendment) bill reflects India’s ‘malafide’ intent, says Pakistan

Islamabad said the bill showed India's intent to interfere in the affairs of its neighbouring countries on the basis of religion.

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.