India

Seven Navy personnel and a hawala operator have been arrested from different parts of the country, the Andhra Pradesh police said in a statement.

Anna Hazare had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 9, informing him that he would observe 'maun vrat' from December 20 as a 'penance'.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper hosted Jaishankar and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh for the second 2+2 dialogue in Washington DC on Wednesday. Jaishankar and Singh left US on Thursday.

Two other patients are also undergoing treatment in the trauma centre and one of them has firearm injury, UP DGP OP Singh said.

A candlelight march and poetry recitation against the new citizenship law and NRC is scheduled to be held in front of the JLN Auditorium in AIIMS.

Antonio Costa is visiting India on Narendra Modi's invitation to attend the second meeting of the organising committee for the celebrations of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

The home minister said the country's 130 crore people are sleeping peacefully because the border guarding forces are protecting the country and serving in hostile environment.

Navarro, who heads the White House Office for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, told Fox News in an interview that a study by him has shown that 90 per cent of the time India charges the United States higher tariffs than they charge India.

Students who sat near the main entrance of the sprawling campus, which is just opposite the famous Marina beach, raised slogans against the Centre, the BJP, its student body ABVP and the RSS.

If they do not file the petition in the given time, Tihar jail administration will then approach the court concerned for further proceedings.

The agitators blocked the national highway for two hours and security personnel were deployed to control the situation, a police officer said.

The weatherman has forecast partly cloudy skies with severe cold wave in the national capital for Thursday morning with shallow fog in various places.

Addressing a large gathering of protesters outside the university's gate number 7, Kumar said the National Register of Citizens was 'much more dangerous' than the amended Citizenship Act and it should be protested 'tooth and nail'.

At the protest that was led by students of Madras University, MDMK chief Kamal Hassan said that he did not come as a politician but to lend his face and voice to the movement against the Citizenship Act

Delhi Police maintained a tight vigil in Seelampur and Jafrabad area to ensure that the situation remained under control even as uneasy calm prevailed in the area, officials said.

In the FIR, the first name as accused is of Ashu Khan, a resident of Abul Fazal enclave Jamia Nagar. The FIR describes him as a local leader.