As Assam and other Northeast states continue to protest the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, President Ramnath Kovind on Thrusday gave his assent, turning the bill into an Act. It came into effect on Thursday, post publication in the official gazette as per the official notification. The Indian Union Muslim League has challenged the legislation in the Supreme Court, claiming it is in violation to the fundamental Right to Equality.&nbsp;

Amid violent protests in Assam, Chief Ministers of two Opposition-ruled states have said they will not implement the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill in their states. Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh outrightly rejected the imposition of the bill, saying&nbsp;how can a large section of the population&nbsp;be left out&nbsp;from the protection they have been getting since India&nbsp;was declared as&nbsp;a &lsquo;sovereign, socialist, secular,&nbsp;and a&nbsp;democratic republic&rsquo;.&nbsp;Speaking to the media, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan called the Bill unconstitutional and blamed the Centre of&nbsp;trying to divide India on religious lines. West Bengal Chief Minister&nbsp;Mamata&nbsp;Banerjee&nbsp;has already she will not allow CAB or NRC&nbsp;in Bengal.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Meghalaya government on Thursday withdrew mobile Internet and messaging services across the state for the next 48 hours due to deteriorating&nbsp;law and order situation triggered by protests over contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill.&nbsp;The district administration in the state capital&nbsp;Shillong&nbsp;also clamped curfew in areas under two police stations after protesters torched and&nbsp;vandalised&nbsp;vehicles on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma postponed a scheduled meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah as his cabinet colleagues failed to&nbsp;reach the Guwahati Airport to board a plane to Delhi.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Amidst death of two protestors in police firing, thousands of people defied curfew to hit the streets as the raging agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Bill saw the house of an MLA and a circle office being set ablaze, while the government removed two key police officers on Thursday.&nbsp;The army conducted a flag march in Guwahati and three districts, and the authorities extended the suspension on Internet services for another 48 hours from 12 noon on Thursday, even as most airlines cancelled flights to and from Dibrugarh and Guwahati, and train movement was halted. In an appeal to the people, state chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal called for maintaining peace and calm. But&nbsp;Assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami said doubts expressed over&nbsp;the Bill are not baseless, and there is a strong possibility of it creating division if implemented.

Assamese superstar Jatin Bora, who is also chairman of the state's film finance development corporation, resigned from the BJP on Thursday in&nbsp;protest against&nbsp;the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Bora announced his decision at an AASU-sponsored meeting at Latasil field in&nbsp;Guawahati&nbsp;to oppose the Bill in the presence of thousands of protestors which included artistes like Bollywood singer Zubeen Garg. Bora said he has also resigned as chief of the film body.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Stating that she would not quit the&nbsp;BJP,&nbsp;Pankaja&nbsp;Munde&nbsp;on Thursday launched a veiled attacked on the party leadership and even challenged it openly to sack her.&nbsp;Dropping broad hints,&nbsp;Pankaja&nbsp;said that she was not angling for&nbsp;the&nbsp;post of state party chief or Leader of Opposition, but certain persons were creating a situation to push her and others like her out of the BJP.&nbsp;If the party wants to 'leave' me, it can take a decision&rsquo;,&nbsp;the&nbsp;former minister&nbsp;said in the presence of several top BJP leaders, including state unit President Chandrakant Patil&nbsp;who were attending a function to mark the 70th&nbsp;birth anniversary of her late father Gopinath Munde.

Nearly a fortnight after Uddhav Thackeray was sworn in as the Maharashtra chief minister, the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition has finally distributed portfolios. While all the key ministries have been divided between the six ministers - two each from Sena, NCP and Congress, no deputy chief minister has been announced. 
Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde has been given charge of the Home ministry, along with Urban Development, Forest, Environment, Water Supply among others.
Sena's Subhash Desai, has been given the charge of Industries, Higher and Technical Education, Sports and Youth Welfare, Horticulture, Transport, Marathi Language and Cultural Affairs, Ports. NCP minister Jayant Patil has been allocated Finance and Planning, Housing, Public Health, Co-operation, Food &amp; Civil Supplies, Labour and Minority Welfare. 
NCP's Chhagan Bhujbal, has been given Irrigation, Rural Development, Social Justice, Excise, Skil Development, Food and Drug Administration. 
Congress minister Balasaheb Thorat has been given Revenue, Energy, Medical Education, School Education, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development, Fisheries. 
Congress's Nitin Raut has been given PWD along with other ministries.

Despite a clarification by the Indian govt, that no bill can impact India-Bangladesh ties, Bangladesh home minister Asaduzzaman Khan has also cancelled a scheduled visit. Khan was to visit Shillong to attend an event by the freedom fighters welfare trust for the support by people in the region for Bangladesh liberation war of 1971. Violent protests in northeast India, including in Shillong, after the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill prompted the cancellation.

At least two persons died due to bullet injuries on Thursday after police opened fire on protesters in Assam's Guwahati. An official of the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital told PTI that one person was &lsquo;brought dead&rsquo; and another succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment. The&nbsp;Superintendent&nbsp;of the hospital told the Indian Express that at least five people were admitted to the hospital with bullet injuries. Meanwhile, chief minister Sarbananda&nbsp;Sonowal in a fresh video reiterated his appeal for peace.

Amid protests over the Citizenship Amendment Bill, the govt says it has no update to share on India-Japan summit slated for 15th of December in Guwahati. Widespread violence in the region has put the summit's location in doubt.
Some of the infrastructure being built for the summit between Prime Minister of&nbsp;Japan&nbsp;Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been dismantled and burnt by the protesters.
Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson&nbsp;Raveesh Kumar&nbsp;said, "We have no update to share right now"
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After Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen cancelled his visit to India, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the Bangladesh FM has explained the reasons behind why he had to cancel the visit. He added that no bill will affect the strong bilateral ties that the two nations share.
 "No bill will affect the strong relations between India and Bangladesh. We have spelt out clearly that the persecuted migrants who came to India were during the military regime and previous governments. The present govt in Bangladesh has done a lot for its minorities," he said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed all the review petitions challenging a Constitution Bench's order in the Ayodhya case, that had cleared the way for construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site.&nbsp;18 review petitions, were taken up by a 5-judge bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde&nbsp;in chambers.&nbsp;The petitioners include Maulana Syed Ashhad Rashidi, who is the legal heir of original Ayodhya land dispute litigant M Siddiq, and Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha. In a unanimous verdict on the 9th of November, an SC&nbsp;bench, headed by then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, decreed the entire disputed land in favour of deity 'Ram Lalla' and directed the Centre to allot a five-acre plot to Sunni Waqf Board at an alternative site for building of a mosque in Ayodhya.

Fresh clashes have been reported between protesters and police out in the Guwahati Club area of the city. Tear gas shells fired after protesters threw stones at security forces. ADG Law and Order GP Singh told reporters that flag marches have been conducted and additional forces being deployed. Some reports say protesters also torched AGP and BJP party offices in Dhakuakhana, Lakhimpur district. The BJP has blamed Congress for violence, BJP's IT cell incharge Amit Malviya in a tweet said, youth Congress workers were orchestrating violence in the name of people's protest.

Guwahati Police Commissioner Deepak Kumar has been removed amid protests over Citizenship Amendment Bill. PTI reports say Munna Prasad Gupta has been appointed as the new city police chief. Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma is also slated to meet Union Minister Amit Shah later. Meanwhile, suspension of internet services in ten districts of Assam has been extended for 48 hours, beginning 12 pm, to prevent "misuse" of social media to disturb peace and tranquility and maintain law &amp; order.

Here's how the foreign media reacted to the Citizenship Amendment Bill passed by both the houses of Parliament. The New York Times has carried an article with the headline, "Indian Parliament Passes Divisive Citizenship Bill. The Washington Post headline reads "India passes controversial citizenship law excluding Muslim migrants". Al Jazeera has written that the "The bill brings sweeping changes to India's 64-year-old citizenship law by giving citizenship to "persecuted" minorities. The Independent has said, "India's ruling Hindu nationalist government has won parliamentary approval for a controversial law.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen has cancelled his three-day visit to India beginning Thursday over the protests after the passage of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
According to an earlier advisory issued by the Ministry of External Affairs, Momen was scheduled to arrive in India on Thursday evening.
There have been massive protests in Assam and several northeastern states against the proposed legislation which seeks to provide citizenship to non-Muslim persecuted religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.&nbsp;

Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Congress and opposition saying that they are spreading lies on the citizenship bill. Addressing a rally in Jharkhand, the PM said that the Congress was behind the unrest in the Northeast and asked the people os the region to not let the party mislead them. He assured that the citizenship bill will not hurt their identity and rights in any way. The PM said, "Congress is playing for its own greed- they are only concerned about their vote bank. They are misleading the Muslims in the country. Congress and its allies in the Northeast are raking up the fire. They are misleading, telling them people from Bangladesh will occupy their land."&nbsp;

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a judicial probe into the killing of 4 accused of raping and murdering a doctor in an encounter with the Hyderabad police. Former SC judge Justice VS Sirpurkar will head the probe panel, which will have 2 more judges. The&nbsp;court has directed that the panel must submit its report within 6 months. the court also said that no other court or authority will conduct an enquiry into the encounter till then.

Bangladesh foreign minister has reportedly slammed over the citizenship amendment bill saying that India has many problems within and let them fight among themselves. News agency ANI reported that AK Abdul Momen, who is coming to India on a 3-day visit, told local media that Bangladesh hoped that the CAB will not affect Dhaka-Delhi relations. Commenting further on CAB, Momen reportedly said that "very few countries have communal harmony as good as Bangladesh". He invited Home Minister Amit Shah to stay in Bangladesh for a few months and see for himself

After government's win the Parliament on the Citizenship Amendment Bill, the battle has now shifted to the Supreme Court. The Indian Union Muslim League has filed a writ petition in the top court challenging the bill passed by both the houses of Parliament. Senior lawyer and Congress leader Kapil Sibal will represent the IUML in the court. Earlier senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi too indicated that his party will also challenge the bill in the court

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