The Biggest Stories Of December 22, 2019

Prime Minister Modi says NRC has not been discussed anywhere by his government after 2014, despite repeated references to all-India NRC by his Home Minister Amit Shah; PM Modi accuses Congress, its allies and urban naxals of spreading lies that Muslims will be sent to detention centres, PM asks where are the detention centres?; Earlier, his own government told the Karnataka High Court that it had written to states on detentions as well as the actual construction of a massive detention centre in Assam; PM Modi has appealed to anti-Citizenship Law protesters, to 'burn Modi effigies instead of public property', but remains silent on issues concerning economy and rising prices; A video has emerged showing a policeman opening fire from his revolver during Saturdays violence in Kanpur against the anti-Citizenship Law; A CCTV footage shows how protesters rampaging down the streets of south Delhi's New Friends Colony on December 15 throwing stones at policemen and setting afire bikes and buses.