Bengaluru: Following the poor performance of Congress party in the Karnataka by-election the AICC Karnataka In-Charge K C Venugopal has reportedly submitted his resignation from the post on Tuesday.
New Delhi: Over 1,000 scientists and scholars have signed a petition demanding that the Citizenship Amendment Bill in its current form be withdrawn, with noted academician Pratap Bhanu Mehta saying the legislation will transform India into an "unconstitutional ethnocracy".
Guwahati: Normal life came to a halt on Tuesday in Assam's Brahmaputra Valley owing to a statewide bandh called by students' unions and Left-democratic organisations in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which has already been passed by the Lok Sabha.
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said the Shiv Sena won't back the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Rajya Sabha till there is clarity on the party's queries posed in the Lok Sabha.
Gandhinagar: Dalit leader and independent MLA Jignesh Mevani was on Monday suspended for three days from the Gujarat Assembly by Speaker Rajendra Trivedi for "indiscipline" and "disrespecting" the Chair.
New Delhi: One of the convicts in the December, 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape-and-murder case, who was lodged in the Mandoli Jail, has been shifted to Tihar, jail officials said on Tuesday.
Varanasi: BHU professor Feroze Khan has resigned from his post at the SVDV Department and joined the Arts Faculty where he will teach Sanskrit, BHU sources said.
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed the government over the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill, saying it was an "attack on the Indian Constitution".
Bantwal: Former Bantwal BJP President G Anand passed away during early hours of Tuesday. He was 70.
Ranchi: Two CRPF personnel, including an officer, were killed and two injured in an alleged fratricidal incident in Jharkhand, officials said on Tuesday.
