German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was on a two day visit to Delhi, during it's terrible bout of pollution has said that the city's pollution presented a very good argument for replacing public buses run on diesel with those powered by electricity. Merkel pledged to spend one billion euros about Rs 8,000 crore in the next five years on green urban mobility in India, as part of German-Indian partnership projects. The capital is facing a severe pollution crisis after Diwali.

In a major relief to the construction sector, the Supreme Court has relaxed its ban in the national capital region to allow construction activities in the day time from 6am to 6pm. The court relaxed the ban on the advice of the Central Pollution Control Board. The ban on construction work during night will continue till further orders. The bench also directed the Centre to explore all available technology, including setting up of smog towers, to deal with NCR pollution and file a report on December 11.

A 12-hour 'bandh' has been called by North East Students' Organisation, the All Assam Students' Union and several other regional bodies&nbsp;against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill which was passed in Lok Sabha&nbsp;yesterday. Shops were closed in Guwahati on Tuesday morning and streets wore a deserted look as the Northeast groups intensified their opposition to the bill. The protesters also blocked roads and burned tyres at several places. The Centre has given northeast a number of exemptions in the bill to allay fears.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has called that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that was cleared by Lok Sabha on Monday a "dangerous turn in wrong direction". In a statement issued on Monday, the federal commission said that it was deeply troubled over the passage of the bill in Lok Sabha. It has sought American sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah if the bill is passed by both houses of Parliament.

A private school teacher in Haryana's Hisar has been booked for allegedly blackening the face of a nine-year-old Dalit girl and some of her classmates as punishment for low scores. The students were also paraded in the school for scoring low marks in an English language examination. The Dalit girl's parents said that the incident took place on Friday and she refused to go to school on Saturday out of shame. They then lodged an FIR against the teacher.

Theatres in Jaipur have stopped screening the film Panipat aftre protests from Rajashtan royals and Jat groups. The cinema hall owners said that they cancelled the shows after&nbsp;orders from the administrations. The royal families and jat groups claim that the Ashotosh Gwariker movie depicts their ancesstor Maharaja Surajmal Jat of Bharatpur in bad light. Panipat tells the story of the Third Battle of Panipat fought in 1761 between the Marathas and Afghan King Ahmad Shah Abdali.

Election strategist turned Janata Dal United leader Prashant Kishor has spoke out against his own party for supporting the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. Kishor tweeted that he was disappinted tha JDU supported a bill that discriminates on the basis of religion. He added that the CAB is also incongruous with the JDU's constitution that carries the word secular thrice on the very first page and the leadership that is supposedly guided by Gandhian ideals.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed happiness over the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha. The PM tweeted that the proposed law is in line with India's centuries old ethos of assimilation and belief in humanitarian values. He said he would like to especially applaud Home Minister Amit Shah for clearly explaining all aspects of the measure. The prime minister was not present in the House during the passage of the Bill.
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The Lok&nbsp;Sabha&nbsp;on Monday passed the controversial Citizen (Amendment) Bill with 311 lawmakers voting in favour and 80 voting against the&nbsp;bill. Before the bill was put to vote, Home Minister Amit&nbsp;Shah answered the questions raised by the members of the Opposition during hours-long debate. He said the Muslims in the country didn't need to worry and the bill was aimed at securing the rights of refugees from three neighbouring countries.

Ahead of the tabling of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Lok Sabha on Monday, the government is said to have worked out &ldquo;alternative arrangements&rdquo; to accommodate Manipur&rsquo;s concerns, The Indian Express has reported. Home Minister Amit Shah may announce measures such as an entry and exit permit system, or a provision for Inner Line Permit, according to Manipur CM Biren Singh.. While these steps may not be a part of the Bill itself, these are likely to be announced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah as he introduces the legislation.

Amid Opposition protests, Union Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha, that seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who are escaping religious persecution in their countries.
Shah said the Bill is not against minorities in India, while Leader of Congress in the Lok&nbsp;Sabha&nbsp;Adhir&nbsp;Ranjan&nbsp;Chowdhury&nbsp;called the bill regressive.
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Buoyed by a landslide victory in 12 of the 15 Assembly seats, an elated Karnataka Chief Minister BS&nbsp;Yediyurappa&nbsp;has declared that all the winning candidates would be made ministers in the ensuing cabinet expansion.&nbsp;The ruling&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;wrested 10 seats from the Congress and two from the Janata Dal-Secular in the bitterly&nbsp;fought by-elections.&nbsp;13 leaders of the Congress and JD(S), whose defection triggered&nbsp;bypolls&nbsp;fought the election of BJP ticket.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Stating that the Citizenship Amendment Bill was against the basic tenant of the Constitution, Hyderabad MP&nbsp;Asaduddin&nbsp;Owaisi&nbsp;attacked Home Minister Amit Shah and said&nbsp;the&nbsp;bill is being brought to enable a new partition of the country on the line of religion.&nbsp;Opposing the Bill in&nbsp;Lok Sabha, the AIMIM chief&nbsp;tore apart a copy of the Bill, which was condemned by the Speaker and was removed from the records of the House.&nbsp;

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday blamed the National Human Rights Commission for opposing the police encounters of the four accused in the case of the gruesome rape and murder of a Telangana veterinarian. Applauding the Telangana&nbsp;police for their brave action, Jagan&nbsp;told the state assembly in an emotional speech, that as a father of two daughters, the incident left him deeply agonised.&nbsp;Condemning the NHRC&rsquo;s attitude towards the case, Reddy said, if the hero in a movie kills someone in an encounter, we all clap but if a daring person does that in real life, someone will come down from Delhi in the name of human rights.
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The Bombay High Court has confirmed the life imprisonment awarded to mafia don Arun Gawli under the Maharashtra Control of&nbsp;Organised&nbsp;Crime Act by a trial court in 2012 for the murder of a Shiv Sena municipal corporator.&nbsp;In a sensational operation, some assailants sent by former lawmaker Gawli had barged into the Ghatkopar home of the Sena corporator, Kamlakar Jamsandekar in March 2008 and killed him. After two months, Gawli - who had taken the contract to kill Jamsandekar - was arrested and a Special Court awarded him a life sentence.&nbsp;The mafia don has been imprisoned since then and is currently lodged in Nagpur Central Jail.&nbsp;

The Delhi High Court on Monday declined to order the linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar, PAN or voter ID card for weeding out fake accounts, saying it would lead to data of genuine account holders, who are much more in number, going "unnecessarily" to foreign countries.&nbsp;The court said linking of accounts&nbsp;like Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp, with Aadhaar, PAN or any other identity document requires framing of policies or an amendment in existing laws by the central government, and this exercise cannot be done by the court.

In a symbolic dig at the Centre over soaring onion prices, Puducherry Chief Minister V&nbsp;Narayanasamy&nbsp;on Monday gifted 1 kg of onions each to party workers to celebrate Congress chief&nbsp;Sonia Gandhi&rsquo;s 73rd birthday.&nbsp;In a video shared on his Twitter handle,&nbsp;Narayanasamy&nbsp;is seen distributing packets of onion to the party&rsquo;s women workers. He also distributed food to people at his residence.&nbsp;The prices of onion have skyrocketed across the country,&nbsp;due to&nbsp;delay in the arrival of new crop and damage to the harvested crop in the main onion-growing states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The government has approved admission of girls in five Sainik schools for the academic session 2020-21 after a pilot project and now decided to admit girls in all 31 Sainik Schools in the country for which a time-bound action plan will be implemented. Minister of State for Defence Shripad Yesso Naik told the Rajya Sabha that the government has approved admission of girls in five Sainik Schools -- in Andhra Pradesh, 2 in Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra. Naik added that the government has made a provision of a 10 percent reservation for girls in such schools.

Amit Shah's partition jibe at Cong over Citizenship Bill

&nbsp;2 senior Congress leaders have quit their posts after their party faced a rout in the by-poll to 15 assembly seats in Karnataka.&nbsp;Siddaramaiah&nbsp;has quit as the head of&nbsp;Congress Legislative Party and Dinesh&nbsp;Gundu&nbsp;Rao&nbsp;has quit as the President of the state Congress unit.&nbsp; &ldquo;We assumed voters would punish the disqualified MLAs, those who left Congress and JD(S) for their selfish gains", Rao&nbsp;said.&nbsp;

Clashes ensued between students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi Police on Monday.&nbsp;With barricades set up and security forces deployed on every gate of the university, the students' planned march to the President's house&nbsp;after their month-long protest failed to bear fruits as the administration rejected their demand of complete rollback of proposed hike in hostel charges.&nbsp;A section of students however reached the vicinity of the president&rsquo;s house but were&nbsp;dispersed by the police which used batons. Three metro stations have been closed and according to Delhi Traffic Police, roads leading to the JNU have been closed for the traffic.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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