At least 14 trains have either been cancelled, short terminated or diverted anticipating disruptions due to the protests, Northeast Frontier Railway said.
At BJP parliamentary party meeting, Modi compares citizenship bill to his govt's Article 370 decision & says it will provide permanent relief to minorities.
In an open letter, they asked the govt not to betray the Constitution. The signatories included Romila Thapar, Yogendra Yadav, Nandita Das, Aparna Sen.
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.
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.
India's projects related to BIMSTEC, Look-East-Act-East and Indian Ocean Rim Association could suffer a setback, impacting trade with South Asia and the South-South Cooperation agenda.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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