Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said if the BJP or the government engaged Israeli agencies to snoop on journalists, lawyers, activists and politicians, it is a "scandal" with grave ramifications for national security. Her remarks come after WhatsApp said that Indian scribes and human rights activists were among those globally spied upon by unnamed entities using Israeli spyware Pegasus.

The Lok&nbsp;Sabha&nbsp;on Monday passed the controversial Citizen (Amendment) Bill with 311 lawmakers voting in favour and 81 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 there Muslims in the country didn't need to worry and the bill was amid at securing the rights of refugees from three neighbouring countries.

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;

Home minister Amit Shah on Monday hit out at the Congress over its opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. While introducing the controversial bill in Lok&nbsp;Sabha, Shah said that Congress divided the country on religious lines in 1947 and the citizenship bill has been brought to correct the Congress' mistake.&nbsp;

&nbsp;A Delhi Court on Monday allowed&nbsp;businessman&nbsp;Robert Vadra to travel to Spain for medical treatment and business purposes.&nbsp;Vadra, who is married to Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, had moved a plea on Saturday seeking permission to travel to Spain for two weeks.&nbsp;The court allowed Vadra to travel abroad while hearing his plea seeking the court's permission after the Enforcement Directorate filed its response. Vadra is facing the financial probe agency investigation under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act pertaining to allegations of money laundering in the purchase of a London-based property.&nbsp;

While the Citizenship Amendment Bill has been introduced in the Lok Sabha, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said, no one can touch the people of Bengal, neither CAB nor the NRC. Claiming that at least 30 people have committed suicide in the state due to panic over the NRC, Banerjee said in a secular country, citizenship can never be accorded on the basis of religion. Lok&nbsp;Sabha&nbsp;MP from the Trinamool&nbsp;Congress Saugata&nbsp;Roy opposed the bill in the House, calling it&nbsp;divisive and unconstitutional.

Amid growing resentment among the north-eastern states, the govt has exempted, the inner line permit areas of Arunachal, Nagaland,&nbsp;Mizoram and regions under the Sixth Schedule&nbsp;from the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill. This means that beneficiaries under the&nbsp;controversial&nbsp;bill will become Indian citizens but will not be able to settle in Arunachal, Nagaland and Mizoram. A large part of Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura will be out of the purview of the contentious bill due to them being under Sixth Schedule areas.&nbsp;The same restriction applies to existing Indian citizens.&nbsp;

Stating that the people of Karnataka&nbsp;have ensured that the Congress and JD(S) won't be able to betray them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;has hailed the bypoll results and said that the people have strengthened a strong and stable government.&nbsp;&ldquo;What the country thinks about political stability and for political stability how much the country trusts BJP, an example of that is in front of us today. I express my gratitude towards people of Karnataka,&rdquo; he said at a rally in Jharkhand&rsquo;s Hazaribagh.
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Under fire after the Unnao rape and murder case, the UP cabinet on Monday decided to set up 218 fast track courts in the state to deal with rape and child sexual abuse cases on an urgent basis. The government will set up 144 fast track courts to hear rape cases and 74 courts to hear matters related to crimes against children.

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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The Karnataka&nbsp;bypoll have brought a big boost to the&nbsp;BJP. The party is set to sweep the bypolls&nbsp;with&nbsp;leads in 12 out of 15 seats where bypolls&nbsp;were held last week. The wins will take the BJP's&nbsp;numbers past the majority mark of 112 in the 224 member house. These polls were crucial for the 4-month-old Yediyurappa govt in Karnataka. The BJP needed to win 7 seats to claim majority. Twelve of the 15 seats that went for bypolls were previously held by the Congress and the remaining three by the JDS. Congress has accepted defeat saying the people have voted for the defectors.

Estranged ally Shiv Sena has attacked the BJP over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. Party's mouthpiece Saamna on Monday accused the BJP of attempting an "invisible partition" of Hindus and Muslims. The Shiv Sena has also questioned whether "selective acceptance" of Hindu illegal immigrants will act as a trigger for a religious war in the country.

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