Bengaluru : The Karnataka High Court on Thursday held as illegal the city police commissioner’s prohibitory orders issued in December last to prevent rights groups from staging demonstrations here against the CAA, NRC and NPR. Hearing a batch of public interest litigations (PILs), the Principal Bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Hemant Chandangaudar […]

Udupi : The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) have stabbed Muslims in the chest and will stab Hindus in the back, activist Shivsundar warned on Thursday. ‘’The Hindus, whose names are dropped from the NRC, will not get citizenship under the CAA,’’ Shivsunder claimed while delivering […]

Mangaluru : It should be noted that if Muslims did not want to stay in India, they would have gone to Pakistan during Partition. However, they stayed back only because of their love for India, said the former chairman of Legislative Council B L Shankar. He was speaking during a seminar on ‘Constitution and Citizenship’, organised by […]

Mangaluru : Mangaluru constituency MLA U T Khader has asked the union government to give people clarity regarding the implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and hence avoid the prevailing confusion. Addressing media here on Tuesday, January 28, U T Khader said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence minister Rajnath Singh and Home Minister Amit […]

New Delhi : Amid pan-India protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Union home minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah on Tuesday said that oppostion parties were misleading people over linking NRC with the NPR for their own political interests. Stating that a similar exercise had been carried out by previous governments […]

Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were making contradictory statements on NRC and wondered who was speaking the truth. Banerjee, while leading a protest march against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and NRC from the Swami Vivekananda statue at Bidhan […]

Mangaluru : Former minister and MLA U T Khader has opposed the state government’s move to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). He told reporters in Mangaluru on Wednesday that the state government should focus on development instead of electoral politics. “Deliberations on the issue are essential. We do […]