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All Stories for Anti Nrc Protests
At Kolkata's Park Circus Maidan, how a homemaker's call to resist CAA-NRC blossomed into a protest
Arshia • 5 years agoAlmost a month after the Shaheen Bagh sit-in was initiated in Delhi to resist the CAA, NRC, and NPR, Kolkata's Park Circus Maidan witnessed a call for protests on identical lines, led by a 45-year-old homemaker, recovering from a kidney transplant surgery. The women of Park Circus Maidan come from all walks of life, cutting across age groups, class and religion, assembling in the hope of a peaceful tomorrow.
Over 200 women gather near Delhi's Jaffrabad metro station to protest against CAA and NRC, raise slogans of 'aazadi'
• 5 years agoOver 200 women gathered near the Jaffrabad metro station in Delhi on Saturday night in protest against the new citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC)
Congress' 'sudden disappearance' led to BJP's defeat in Delhi polls, claims Union minister Prakash Javadekar
• 5 years agoUnion minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said the "sudden disappearance" of the Congress was responsible for the BJP's defeat in Delhi Assembly polls.
Amid nationwide protests, no decision on preparing National Register of Citizens at national level, says Ministry of Home Affairs
• 5 years agoThe government has not taken any decision on preparing a nationwide NRC, it reiterated in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, amid protests against the citizens' register in the country
BJP MLA trashes CAA for creating 'civil war-like' situation, tells party to follow Ambedkar's Constitution or 'tear, throw it away'
• 5 years agoEven as the Narendra Modi government refuses to back down on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) despite protests nationwide, a BJP MLA from Madhya Pradesh has taken a different stand, saying the law was creating a "civil war-like situation in every street"
Anti-CAA protests: Aligarh police dispatches team to arrest ex-JNU student Sharjeel Imam over controversial speech
• 5 years agoA case has been registered against JNU student Sharjeel Imam in Aligarh for his controversial speech delivered during the students protest at Aligarh Muslim University on 16 January against CAA and NRC
Prakash Javadekar claims AAP, Congress behind Shaheen Bagh protest, asks Delhi to decide if they want 'Jinnah wali azaadi' or 'Bharat mata ki jai'
• 5 years agoCiting the anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said the people of Delhi need to decide whether they want "Jinnah Wali Azaadi" or Bharat Mata Ki Jai
West Bengal civic elections: TMC to make oppostion to CAA, NRC its main poll plank, will carry out door-to-door campaign
• 5 years agoTrinamool Congress has decided to continue its protests against CAA and NRC and will make it the party's main poll plank in the West Bengal civic elections
Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea challenging imposition of NSA in Delhi and other states amid anti-CAA protests
• 5 years agoThe Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea challenging the imposition of the National Security Act (NSA) in few states and the national capital amid anti-CAA protests.
Supreme Court to hear plea against imposition of NSA in Delhi, Andhra Pradesh amid anti-CAA protests today
• 5 years agoThe Supreme Court would hear on Friday a fresh plea challenging the imposition of the National Security Act (NSA) in few states and the national capital empowering police to detain persons sans trial for a period of 12 months