Newspaper Headlines: 2 Killed In Mangaluru, 1 In Lucknow During Citizenship Protests, Other Top stories

  • <B>The Times Of India</B>: The US House of Representatives on voted to impeach President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Delhi woke up to the coldest and foggiest morning of the season with the minimum temperature dropping to 5.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal, the day too stayed intensely chilly as the mercury remained seven degrees below the normal mark at 15 degrees C.
    The Times Of India: The US House of Representatives on voted to impeach President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Delhi woke up to the coldest and foggiest morning of the season with the minimum temperature dropping to 5.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal, the day too stayed intensely chilly as the mercury remained seven degrees below the normal mark at 15 degrees C.
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  • <B>Hindustan Times</B>: Police enforced an unprecedented crackdown in large parts of the Capital on Thursday - ordering a prohibition on assembly, switching off mobile connectivity, shutting down Metro stations, and detaining people who defied the ban on demonstrations - to quell protests against a new citizenship law that has roiled India. Two people were killed in Mangaluru in Karnataka after protests turned violent, while large-scale agitation resulted in the death of one person in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow on Thursday as demonstrators across states took to the streets against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
    Hindustan Times: Police enforced an unprecedented crackdown in large parts of the Capital on Thursday - ordering a prohibition on assembly, switching off mobile connectivity, shutting down Metro stations, and detaining people who defied the ban on demonstrations - to quell protests against a new citizenship law that has roiled India. Two people were killed in Mangaluru in Karnataka after protests turned violent, while large-scale agitation resulted in the death of one person in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow on Thursday as demonstrators across states took to the streets against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
  • <B>The Hindu</B>: Two persons were killed in police firing in Mangaluru on Thursday as protesters across the country took to the streets against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Delhi police on Thursday detained more than 1,200 protesters,including politicians D. Raja, Sitaram Yechury, Nilotpal Basu, Brinda Karat, Ajay Maken, Sandeep Dikshit and activists Yogendra Yadav, Umar Khalid, from central Delhi during anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in the national capital.
    The Hindu: Two persons were killed in police firing in Mangaluru on Thursday as protesters across the country took to the streets against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Delhi police on Thursday detained more than 1,200 protesters,including politicians D. Raja, Sitaram Yechury, Nilotpal Basu, Brinda Karat, Ajay Maken, Sandeep Dikshit and activists Yogendra Yadav, Umar Khalid, from central Delhi during anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in the national capital.
  • <B>The Asian Age</B>: Rage and anger against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) poured out on streets across the nation on Thursday as ordinary citizens, students, writers, activists, artists, Opposition parties and film stars came out in large numbers to register their protest against the. After holding their 2+2 dialogue at the foreign and defence ministerial level in Washington on Wednesday (early Thursday morning IST), India and the United States "called on Pakistan to take immediate, sustained and irreversible action" against terrorism from its soil, besides "welcoming the signing of the Industrial Security Annex (ISA) which will facilitate the exchange of classified military information between Indian and the US defence industries".
    The Asian Age: Rage and anger against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) poured out on streets across the nation on Thursday as ordinary citizens, students, writers, activists, artists, Opposition parties and film stars came out in large numbers to register their protest against the. After holding their 2+2 dialogue at the foreign and defence ministerial level in Washington on Wednesday (early Thursday morning IST), India and the United States "called on Pakistan to take immediate, sustained and irreversible action" against terrorism from its soil, besides "welcoming the signing of the Industrial Security Annex (ISA) which will facilitate the exchange of classified military information between Indian and the US defence industries".
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  • <B>The Telegraph</B>: At least three persons were killed on Thursday after police in the BJP-ruled states of Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh fired teargas shells and lathi-charged peaceful protests against the amended citizenship law. At first it was a trickle. Then they came in waves, from all sides, converging peacefully at the heart of India's IT capital, catching off guard the police and the administration who had imposed prohibitory orders just to prevent such a protest.
    The Telegraph: At least three persons were killed on Thursday after police in the BJP-ruled states of Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh fired teargas shells and lathi-charged peaceful protests against the amended citizenship law. At first it was a trickle. Then they came in waves, from all sides, converging peacefully at the heart of India's IT capital, catching off guard the police and the administration who had imposed prohibitory orders just to prevent such a protest.