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Spain: Socialists pin future government on Catalan’s release

11:45 pm December 30, 2019

Madrid : Spain’s state attorney called Monday for an imprisoned Catalan politician to be allowed to be sworn in as a member of the European Union parliament, a step that could ease the way for a center-left governing alliance to take office in the country. The European Union’s top court ruled this month that Oriol […]

Assam CM calls for secularism in context of Indian

No need of fresh NRC in Assam, if SC allows 20 pc re-verification in border districts: Himanta

8:15 pm December 23, 2019

Guwahati: Assam government on Monday said there will be no need for the state to be a part of the proposed nation-wide NRC, if the Supreme Court allows re-verification of its 20 per cent names from the border districts. The state government does not accept the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the final version of […]

SC dismisses convict’s review plea in Nirbhaya case

3:01 pm December 18, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the plea filed by one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking review of its 2017 judgement upholding his death penalty. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said there are no ground to review the 2017 verdict and the contentions […]

Protests marked 2019 in many of Delhi's universities

Citizenship law: Students, opposition leaders step up protests; SC rejects inquiry panel plea

11:06 pm December 17, 2019

New Delhi: Students, opposition leaders and activists across regions stepped up their protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act on Tuesday even as at least 29 persons were arrested for violent clashes over the last couple of days in Jamia Millia Islamia and parts of UP, while the Supreme Court rejected plea for setting up […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

CAA is India’s internal and domestic matter: France

6:41 pm December 16, 2019

New Delhi: The amended Citizenship Act is India’s internal and domestic matter, French envoy Emmanuel Lenain said on Monday as he noted that his country believes in freedom of religion. Speaking to reporters, Lenain said India is a democracy and when there are conflicts in views of people then they can approach institutions like the […]