Anti-caa Play

A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, in connection with a case related to larger conspiracy in north-east Delhi riots in February, saying he allegedly played an active role in the entire conspiracy.

All the accused in a case of sedition filed over a school play in Karnataka's Bidar have been granted anticipatory bail by a court that said the case lacked enough basis. The play, themed on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), "has not caused any disharmony in the society", said the district and sessions court in Bidar.

More and more voices are being raised against police action in Bidar in north Karnataka - where sedition charges were filed against a school management - and the mother of a student and the head teacher were arrested for a school play critical of the contentious citizenship law.

Children at a school in Karnataka's Bidar have been getting used to a highly unusual routine. A police officer arrives in the afternoon. This is followed by four or five hours of questioning. Their crime was to participate in a school play critical of the citizenship law, staged on January 21. The children's interrogation continues even after the s...

The CPI(M) on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" on hate speeches by his party members and slammed his government over the sedition case slapped against a student's mother and a teacher in Karnataka for allegedly staging a play on the new citizenship law.

In a shock move, Mamata Banerjee distanced herself from the campaign by a united opposition against the citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and said her Trinamool Congress party will not participate in a meeting called by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Monday.

A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, in connection with a case related to larger conspiracy in north-east Delhi riots in February, saying he allegedly played an active role in the entire conspiracy.

All the accused in a case of sedition filed over a school play in Karnataka's Bidar have been granted anticipatory bail by a court that said the case lacked enough basis. The play, themed on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), "has not caused any disharmony in the society", said the district and sessions court in Bidar.

More and more voices are being raised against police action in Bidar in north Karnataka - where sedition charges were filed against a school management - and the mother of a student and the head teacher were arrested for a school play critical of the contentious citizenship law.

Children at a school in Karnataka's Bidar have been getting used to a highly unusual routine. A police officer arrives in the afternoon. This is followed by four or five hours of questioning. Their crime was to participate in a school play critical of the citizenship law, staged on January 21. The children's interrogation continues even after the s...

The CPI(M) on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" on hate speeches by his party members and slammed his government over the sedition case slapped against a student's mother and a teacher in Karnataka for allegedly staging a play on the new citizenship law.

In a shock move, Mamata Banerjee distanced herself from the campaign by a united opposition against the citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and said her Trinamool Congress party will not participate in a meeting called by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Monday.