Jan Gan Man

Left leader Kanhaiya Kumar was on Thursday stopped from addressing a rally in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in West Champaran district of Bihar, where he was detained by officials who told him that permission for the event had been "cancelled" last moment.

A school in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad that apparently never allowed the singing of the national anthem deeming it "un-Islamic" has been shut and its manager has been arrested after several teachers resigned over his refusal to allow the anthem this Independence Day.

Left leader Kanhaiya Kumar was on Thursday stopped from addressing a rally in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in West Champaran district of Bihar, where he was detained by officials who told him that permission for the event had been "cancelled" last moment.

A school in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad that apparently never allowed the singing of the national anthem deeming it "un-Islamic" has been shut and its manager has been arrested after several teachers resigned over his refusal to allow the anthem this Independence Day.