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Modi govt is fighting with voters who backed him with passion: youth

Six months after returning to power with a huge mandate, Modi government is stuck fighting students - its most ardent voters who are now pessimistic, hopeless and even angry

Railways claims it lost Rs 84 cr due to anti-CAA protests in West Bengal

The matter will be taken up for hearing again four weeks hence, the court directed.

Centre notifies Citizenship Act amid protests; SC to hear pleas on Jan 22

The law has amended the Citizenship Amendment Act of 1955 to provide for Indian citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian migrants who have come to India until December 31, 2014

Remember Safdar

n recent times, it has also become very fashionable to call people "anti-national" if they are critical of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government or its policies

Lighting the campus tinderbox

Mr Modi's authoritarian streak is sometimes compared to Indira Gandhi's rise to absolute power. If so, the triggering of a students' agitation carries a fateful echo from the non-so-distant past

Budget 2020: Why govt must look beyond taxes, do more with its money

Though non-tax revenues, including borrowings, account for 40% of the Budget, there seems to be little focus on boosting these or reducing borrowings by saving on expenditure, writes T N Ninan

Amid CAA row, Mamata Banerjee may share stage with PM Modi in Kolkata

Modi is visiting Kolkata to inaugurate a few historical structures which have been restored and kick start the 150-years' celebration of KoP

Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 comes into effect from January 10

The CAA was passed by parliament on December 11

The politics of cool

However much the government and its outreach community might insist it is merely an enabling act, it is hard to see it as anything but the first step towards a constitutionally Hindu nation

How internet shutdowns cost India more than $1.3 billion in 2019

Government-led internet shutdowns cost the global economy $8 billion in 2019. India lost $1.3 billion due to 4,196 hours of no internet. 122 major shutdowns took place in 21 countries during the year

Police baton-charge JNU students, HRD ministry refuses removal of V-C

SC refuses urgent hearing on plea to declare CAA constitutional

JNU students try marching towards Rashtrapati Bhawan; detained by police

Police stops JNU students as they try to march towards Rashtrapati Bhavan; detained

NRC, CAA unnecessary, wasteful exercises: 106 former civil servants to govt

The retired bureaucrats said there was no need for the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Indian Citizens

India Inc: Seen but not heard

Over the past few days, there has been a clamour for Bollywood celebrities to speak out against the violence at JNU

HC directs Mamata govt to suspend Citizenship Act related media campaigns

The court also sought a detailed response from the state government about the petitioners' claim that campaign against the CAA was carried out using public money

Your job is to douse the fire, Mamata slams Shah over anti-CAA protests

The chief minister also appealed to Shah to take care of the country and "control" BJP cadres.

Cannot be bullied, violence must stop: Supreme Court on CAA, NRC protests

Citizenship Law and NRC can be enforced in West Bengal only over my dead body: Mamata

Mamata seeks PM Modi's intervention to revoke Citizenship Act, proposed NRC

Addressing a press meet here, Banerjee, who is also the TMC supremo, urged the PM to withdraw the "anti-people" law and plans to implement nationwide NRC.

Why are you scared?: PM accuses Mamata of a u-turn on NRC, spreading lies

Modi accused Banerjee of "spreading rumours" and being "scared", keeping in mind the 2021 West Bengal Assembly polls.

BJP, Cong in blame game over National Population Register & detention camps

The BJP said the Congress-led UPA initiated the NPR in 2010, along with the Census 2011 exercise, and that it had also approved construction of detention centres