Chennai, Jan 25 (PTI) Scores of members of Muslim outfit Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath took out protest marches across Tamil Nadu on Saturday against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The protesters gathered in front of the Chennai Collectorate holding placards and TNTJ flags and raised slogans demanding withdrawal of the Act.
Tight security was in place to ensure no untoward incidents took place, police sources said.
BAGHDAD, Jan 25 (NNN-NINA) – Thousands of supporters of Iraqi cleric, Moqtada Sadr, gathered in Baghdad for a rally, to demand the ouster of US troops.
The march rattled the separate, months-old protest movement, that gripped the capital and the Shiite-majority south since Oct, demanding a government overhaul, early elections and more accountability.
In the early hours of Friday, thousands of men, women and children of all ages massed under grey skies in the Jadiriyah district of east Baghdad.
24 Jan 2019; MEMO: Israeli authorities have “for days now” been opening rainwater stores near the besieged Gaza Strip drowning Palestinian land, the enclave’s agriculture ministry reported yesterday.
The ministry added that the occupation forces were “controlling the opening and closing of the rainwater stores in Gaza,” noting that it had damaged Palestinian farmers’ crops.
24 Jan 2019; MEMO: Suspected Jewish right-wing extremists attacked a Palestinian mosque in the Beit Safafa neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem pre-dawn today, reported Haaretz.
24 Jan 2019; MEMO: Kuwait has blamed Israel for the failure to implement the two-state solution. Speaking during a session at the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Middle East, Kuwait’s permanent representative to the UN, Mansour Al-Otaibi, voiced deep concerns over Israel’s illegal policies that threatened the complete collapse of the two-state solution.
New Delhi, Jan 24 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain a plea challenging the imposition of National Security Act (NSA) in few states as also in the national capital amid anti-CAA protests.
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee said that it cannot pass a blanket order with regard to the imposition of NSA and asked lawyer M L Sharma to withdraw the plea.
Jaipur, Jan 23 (PTI) The Rajasthan government will introduce a resolution against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the assembly session beginning Friday, Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot said.
He said the Centre should listen to people protesting against the act across the country and asserted that democracy weakens if there is no dialogue.
Lucknow, Jan 23 (PTI) The opposition parties on Thursday slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for warning anti-CAA protesters that "azadi" slogans raised by them will be treated as sedition.
While the Samajwadi Party drew an analogy with the British rule, the Congress termed it "a language of dictators".
Bengaluru, Jan 23 (PTI) JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda on Thursday called on secular regional parties and Congress to fight against the "divisive policies" of the central government like the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens with a Common Minimum Programme.
The former Prime Minister also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fulfilling the "long standing anti-Muslim agenda" of Jana Sangh and Hindu Mahasabha, and leading the country to the margins of danger.
GAZA, Jan 24 (NNN-Xinhua) — Palestinian factions in Gaza called on the participants of the World Holocaust Forum held in Jerusalem to stop the Israeli practices and violations against the Palestinian people.
In a joint statement circulated during a demonstration in front of the UN headquarters in western Gaza City, the factions expressed their rejection to the World Holocaust Forum because of Israeli violations against the Palestinians.
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