Tezpur (Assam): In order to avoid anti- CAA protests by AASU here, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took a 5-km chopper ride to reach the venue, where a function was held to pay tribute to deceased BJP MLA Rajen Borthakur.
Kishanganj: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of misleading the people over Citizenship Amendment Act, National Population Register and National Register of Citizens and alleged that he wanted to divide the country through these measures.
Kolhapur: Shiv Sena activists burnt an effigy of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and stopped screening of a Kannada movie in Maharashtra's Kolhapur city on Sunday as the dispute over Belgaum flared up once again.
Bantwal: Literary lovers expressed dissatisfaction over the controvercial posters pasted on the school walls during the two-day Bantwal Taluk 20th Sahitya Sammelan held at Mani Balavikas English medium school, on Sunday.
Athani: In a shocking incident, a woman gave birth to a baby girl and abandoned it in the toilet of a government primary school in Yakkanchi village in the Taluk on Saturday evening.
Mangaluru: Former Mayor K. Ashraf has filed a complaint at Mangaluru East (Kadri) police station saying that the police thronged into the hospital without permission and threatened and tortured him while he was hospitalized after getting injured in lathicharge and police firing on December 19 in Mangaluru.
Pune: Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday lashed out at those opposing the National Register of Citizens, asking whether they wanted the country to become a "Dharam Shala" (an open house).
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday presented megastar Amitabh Bachchan with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Indian cinema's highest honour, in a special ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said there was a need for an enlightened and constructive debate on issues such as Citizenship Amendment Act and National Population Register and stressed that there should be no scope for violence during protests.
Saudi Arabia plans to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Kashmir, in an apparent move by Riyadh to please Pakistan which skipped a recent summit of Muslim nations in Malaysia seen by Riyadh as an attempt to create a new bloc to replace the dysfunctional OIC led by it.
