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The scribes were taken to Thalappady bordering Kerala from Mangaluru south police station where they were kept till late in the afternoon, said sources.

The epicentre of the protest was the locality around the Jama Masjid where large number of people held a massive protest after the Friday prayers at the mosque defying prohibitory orders and police clampdown.

There are 97 items under the Union List of the 7th Schedule and they include Defence, External Affairs, Railways, Citizenship and Naturalisation.

Karnataka tourism minister CT Ravi called upon Khader to know what happens when people are outraged, advising him to recall in case he has forgotten. Ravi compared the prevailing situation in Manguluru with Godhra.

The delegation included Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council SR Patil, former Home Minister and MLA MB Patil, former Speaker and MLA KR Ramesh Kumar and former MP VS Ugrappa.

Thousands of students, activists and opposition leaders hit the streets in the national capital on Thursday, defying heavy security clampdown and prohibitory orders even as authorities suspended mobile internet services and restricted traffic movement to...

More than 6,000 people were killed in their coastal district of Nagapattinam — the hardest-hit area in Tamil Nadu where nearly 9,000 died on the mainland and almost 42,000 people were rendered homeless.

Citizenship Act Protests LIVE: BJP ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has refused to implement the contentious National Register of Citizens in his state amid intense pan-India protests against NRC and the new citizenship law.

It was from August Kranti Maidan in south-central Mumbai that the Quit India movement of 1942 had begun. As speeches after speeches were made from the spare dais, couplets of Rahat Indori and Faiz Ahmed Faiz were the flavour of the season.

From December 23, the examinations will be held as per regular schedule at all examination centres across the country and abroad according to the time-table, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India said.

Speaking at a rally in the city on Thursday afternoon, Mamata Banjerjee challenged the Narendra Modi government at the Centre to go for a United Nation-monitored referendum on the Act and NRC.

The port, which is easily accessible from India's western coast, is increasingly seen as a counter to Pakistan's Gwadar Port which is being developed with the Chinese investment.

Currently, the central government's ambitious initiative is being implemented on a pilot basis in a cluster of six states. It wants to implement this facility across the country from June 1, 2020.

Both the government and the BJP have alleged that there has been a concerted attempt to distort the reality of CAA-NRC combine. The true picture is as follows, according to government sources.

Various airlines also advised travellers to the Indira Gandhi International Airport to keep the restrictions in mind to avoid missing their flights.

On the occasion of Goa Liberation Day, the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind took to Twitter to commemorate the day, writing, 'On Goa Liberation Day, we pay homage to the martyrs who gave their all in the struggle to free Goa from colonial rule.'