After Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma raised concerns over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) causing “problems” in his state, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah invited him for talks post-Christmas to discuss the issue.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi misses a step and falls down on stairs at Kanpur's Atal ghat.

Arson and violent protest erupt in parts of West Bengal for the second consecutive day of the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Expressing concern over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says NRC is a threat to Bangladesh's independence and sovereignty.

Washington and London issue travel warnings for northeast India as opponents of a new citizenship law geared up for more protests Saturday, following days of clashes that saw two people killed and dozens injured.

Schools and colleges were closed, markets were shut and vehicles remained largely off roads in parts of Nagaland in India today amid a six-hour flash general strike called by the Naga Students' Federation (NSF), protesting against the amended Citizenship Act, officials say.

Indefinite curfew, which was imposed in Dibrugarh town in the Indian state of Assam, has been relaxed for five hours when a large number of protesters joined a hunger strike in Guwahati called by All Assam Students Union (AASU) to protest against the Citizenship Act.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, turning it into a law amid violent street protests in Shillong where curfew was imposed in unrest-hit areas and a ban clamped on internet and SMS services.

India's parliament on Wednesday passed a contentious bill that will allow citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before 2015.

Three protesters are killed and many others injured in a police firing in Assam's Guwahati of India amid a raging agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

The trial run for direct bus services on Dhaka-Gangtok and Dhaka-Darjeeling routes via Siliguri kicked off this evening to boost cross-border commercial services in the region.

Protesters against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, passed by Indian parliament last night, defy curfew in Guwahati while the situation remains tense across Assam.

Indian parliament gives its seal of approval to the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which gives nationality to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan after it was cleared by the Rajya Sabha with 125 voting for it and 105 against.

A judicial commission, which probed the deadly communal riots that claimed 1,000 lives, mostly of the Muslim community, in India’s Gujarat in 2002, gives a clean chit to the then state government headed by Narendra Modi.

Police fire rubber bullets and lob tear gas shells to disperse protesters against the Citizenship Amendment bill in Assam’s Dibrugarh district as fresh unrest erupt a day after a total shutdown in several parts of India’s north eastern states against proposed legislation’s passage in the Lok Sabha.

Describing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a "dangerous turn in the wrong direction", a federal US commission on international religious freedom seeks American sanctions against Home Minister Amit Shah and other principal Indian leadership if the bill with the "religious criterion" is passed by both houses of Parliament.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has expressed his gratitude that not a single incident of atrocities on religious minorities in Bangladesh took place as long as Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was alive.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government’s contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 is here again amid indications that it may pass muster in parliament this time.

India's parliament sees raucous scenes and protests rage in the north-east of the country as MPs debate legislation that stands to give citizenship to religious minorities from neighbouring countries, but not Muslims.

A young woman was allegedly set on fire by her neighbour after she resisted his attempt to rape her in Muzzaffarpur town in Bihar, an Indian police officer says.