The Biggest Stories Of January 18, 2020

Three shocking cases of crime emerged from Uttar Pradesh in a span of 2 days. The burnt body of a woman, tied to a cot, was found in a village in western Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district on Friday. In another shocking incident, the dead body of a young woman, without clothes and acid burn marks on her face, was found near a forest in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district. A 40-year-old woman, whose teenage daughter was allegedly molested by six men in 2018, died at a hospital in Kanpur on Friday a week after she was assaulted allegedly by the same men who had managed to get bail in the molestation case; While the BJP maintains that citizenship will be given to minorities facing religious persecution in the 3 neighbouring countries, Himanata Biswa Sharma said, "There can be no proof of religious persecution"; Demonstrations against the amended Citizenship Act is gathering steam in Delhi, Lucknow, Chennai and Kolkata with protesters filling up the streets against the controversial law.