India

The film fraternity of Assam, including singers and musicians, gathered for the mass hunger strike, chanting 'Joi Aai Asom' slogans with thousands of Assamese people.

The statement said that the bandh has been called against contentious Citizenship Act in the Parliament, much against the interests and the sentiments of the Indigenous people in the North East states.

The development came against the backdrop of protests in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) over fee hike and the continuing deadlock between students and the university administration.

Due to strict marking only nine of the total 1,195 candidates in the mains exam could manage to qualify as against 107 vacancies, the Supreme Court said. It added however that evaluation process was 'not discriminatory'.

Pakistan Foreign Office rubbished the External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar's statement in the issue saying that India should be the 'last country to pretend to be a protector'.

The dates will be reworked as the India-Japan summit is annual in nature and has to be held at some stage, sources aware of the developments said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear a review petition by Nirbhaya case convict Akshay Singh Thakur on December 17, amid speculation that the four men convicted in the rape-and-murder case may be executed soon.

The students told the media after the meeting that the VC 'did not reply' to the demands of a complete rollback of the fee hike and wanted the Yamuna Hostel (fully privatised) model to be implemented across all hostels.

The woman, resident of Ambernath town, told police that she was in love with the accused, but chose to marry another man at her parents' behest.

The party's national vice-president Prashant Kishor declared that he was 'not giving up' his opposition to the legislation while its Muslim MLAs and MLCs propose to seek an audience with the chief minister.

Neeraj Gupta, a resident of Dabri, who works at a gym in Chanakyapuri was apprehended from the Pankha Road flyover in Bharampuri, Sagarpur.

Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal confirmed that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi boycotted the speech of the Indian minister at the Heart of Asia conference in Turkey early this month.

Asaduzzaman Khan was to visit Shillong to attend an event by the freedom fighters welfare trust for the support by people in the region for Bangladesh liberation in the war of 1971.

The Congress rally, which was set to culminate at the TMC-run KMC headquarters in Esplanade but, were stopped midway by BJP activists, who were celebrating the passage of the Citizenship Bill.

Thackeray described Pawar as the 'guide' of the Maharashtra Vikas Agadhi, the front set up by the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress to form government in the state last month.

The minister said in the Lok Sabha that states meet their demand from their own generating sources and share from central generating stations.