Delhi Police deploy forces and imposed Section 144 in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area which has been the epicentre of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) agitation, as protesters have been sitting on the road since December 15 demanding the withdrawal of the act.

Voicing concern over the recent violence in north-east Delhi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said India is a secular country and people cannot be divided along religious lines.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will undertake a two-day visit to Dhaka from tomorrow with the primary objective of doing the spadework for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit for attending Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary celebrations on March 17.

All 112 people, including the 23 from Bangladesh, who are housed at a quarantine facility in India after they were evacuated from Wuhan in China, have tested negative for coronavirus.

The Indian state of Meghalaya imposed a curfew in capital Shillong and suspended mobile internet services in six districts after a person died in clashes over the controversial citizenship law, officials said today.

A section of teachers and students of Visva Bharati University offer legal assistance to the Bangladeshi student who was asked to leave India for engaging in “anti-government activities”.

Nine cultural organisations in Bangladesh express grave concerns over the clash and violence that erupted in Indian’s capital New Delhi between people for and against a new citizenship law.

At least 42 people have lost their lives and more than 250 are injured as armed mobs rampage through parts of northeast Delhi from Sunday till Tuesday, looting and burning buildings and attacking residents.

Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer S N Srivastava was appointed the new chief of Delhi Police today and will replace commissioner Amulya Patnaik who retires tomorrow, an Indian Home Ministry official told our New Delhi correspondent.

A Bangladeshi militant and an Indian belonging to Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror group have been convicted by a court in Kolkata on charges of money laundering and terror financing in connection with the Burdwan blast case of October, 2014.

The situation in riot-hit localities of Delhi over a controversial amendment to the citizenship law is slowly returning to normal with no major incidents reported in the 36-hour timeline from Wednesday till last night, the Indian Home Ministry has said.

Gul Mohammad had a flourishing footwear business until masked men armed with crude petrol bombs burnt down his shops during Delhi’s worst violence in decades, shattering the harmony between Hindus and Muslims in the neighbourhood.

Sporadic violence hit parts of Delhi overnight as gangs roamed streets littered with the debris of days of violence that have killed 33 people, police say.

A Bangladeshi student at Visva-Bharati has been asked to leave India for participating in “anti-government activities” after she posted a few photographs -- on Facebook -- of protests against the citizenship law at the university, reports The Telegraph, India.

Delhi High Court Judge Justice S Muralidhar, who grilled the Indian centre and state government on Wednesday over the violence in the capital that left 27 dead and over 200 injured, has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

The recent economic slide notwithstanding, India is seen by the United States as the anchor of regional economic and security cooperation not only in South Asia but beyond it.

The death toll from violence over the citizenship law in different parts of India’s capital Delhi rises to 27.

In an urgent sitting, the Delhi High Court has directed police to immediately escort some 20 persons injured in the ongoing clashes in Mustafabad to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital for treatment, Indian news website The Wire reports.

The violence-hit areas continue to remain tense this morning, with police and paramilitary personnel on the ground, reports NDTV.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck among other world leaders, have so far confirmed their presence in different events during ‘Mujib Borsho’ to mark Bangabandhu’s birth centenary.