Topic: Citizenship Bill protests
Injured infants in images viral on social media are not victims of Citizenship Act protests
Some social media users, including a member of BJP’s IT Cell, shared images of wounded children claiming they were injured during the Citizenship Act protests.
‘Shocking violence’ — Harvard, Yale students & academics condemn police action in Jamia, AMU
Letter by students, alumni and academics from universities across US calls police action ‘gross violation of human rights’, asks Amit Shah to take necessary steps or resign.
J&K appoints nodal officers to assist its students across India amid citizenship law unrest
J&K administration also advises students to use social media cautiously and refrain from any activity which can disturb peace and harmony.
Revisiting Rs 1,000 notes, alternative career for Feroze Khan and Congress’ last chance
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.
Priyanka Gandhi stages sit-in dharna at India Gate, says country’s atmosphere is ‘bad’
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held the dharna in a show of solidarity to the students carrying out protests against the citizenship law, and said the party will fight for the Constitution.
21 arrested in connection with students-police clash over citizenship law at AMU
Internet services in Aligarh, Saharanpur and Meerut was suspended a day after protests broke out in certain parts of Uttar Pradesh, including at AMU, against the amended citizenship law.
CPI(M) youth wing DYFI holds rally across Kerala over police action on Jamia, AMU students
Delhi Police used batons, teargas shells to disperse protesters and entered the Jamia university campus, where students were agitating against the Citizenship Act.
Delhi Police releases 50 Jamia students who were detained during protests
Of the 50 students, 35 were released from Kalkaji police station and 15 from New Friends Colony police station.
Jamia students’ protest was peaceful, violence started ‘after local residents entered university’
Jamia students claim local residents ‘hijacked’ their protest. Police say entered university campus while chasing miscreants. Schools in southeast Delhi shut on Monday.
AMU students protest against citizenship law after Jamia clashes, police fire teargas
AMU Proctor Prof Afifullah Khan said some security personnel have been injured in the violence. Police have sealed all gates to the campus.
Is it ‘shirk from home’? Jury’s still out as Europe begins working from home again
There is no evidence yet of mass remote work’s impact in the longer term on company productivity, but the current outlook is mixed at best.
Harley Davidson to discontinue sales and manufacturing operations in India
Harley’s decision comes weeks after Toyota Motor Corp. said it won’t expand further in India due to the country’s high tax regime.
Defence
Indian soldiers at LAC have go-ahead to open fire in self-defence, India tells China
With no signs of disengagement on the ground in Ladakh, where India and China have been locked in a stand-off since April, both sides will stay dug in during the region’s bitter winter too.
Suspect all, fix all? Is that the motto of our new ‘National Suspicion State’?
It’s not just Modi government or BJP, but even state governments, judiciary are getting caught in a ‘we suspect all’ mindset. Is India becoming a National Suspicion State?