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The protests against Citizenship Amendment Act intensified in New Delhi as thousands of people gathered at Jantar Mantar and Assam Bhawan to call an end to 'religious profiling'

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Students protest across TN against CAA, police action in Jamia University

Students across Tamil Nadu including at IIT, Madras here held protests against Citizenship Amendment Act, as well as the police action against their counterparts in Jamia Millia University in Delhi.

 

Activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) held protests in Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore railway stations and were removed by the police.

 

At the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, students were seen carrying placards with pictures of Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar, condemning both the CAA as well as the police crackdown against students of Jamia Millia University on Sunday.

 

Further, a section of students of the city-based Loyola College staged a sit-in protest expressing solidarity with those from Jamia Millia.

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Jamia Millia Islamia will present facts to HRD minister: VC Najma Akhtar on police crackdown

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There has been huge damage to university property, says Jamia Millia Islamia vice chancellor.

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Police entered without permission, scared students with brutality, says Jamia VC

We cannot tolerate police presence on campus, they scared our students with their brutality: Jamia VC Najma Akhtar.

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Police entered our campus without permission, students were studying and working: Jamia VC Najma Akhtar.

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From Lucknow to Hyderabad, protests across campuses against police crackdown in Jamia

Unrest over the police crackdown in Delhi's Jamia Miiia Islamia rippled through the country on Monday with demonstrations in several campuses, including in Hyderabad, Lucknow, Mumbai and Kolkata.

 

The morning after violence broke out in the national capital following protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act, hundreds of students took to the streets demanding a probe into the usage of teargas inside the Jamia library as well as police entering the campus without permission from the varsity authorities.

 

Several Delhi University students boycotted exams to express their solidarity. They said they will gather at India Gate on Monday evening.

 

At ground zero of the student movement, a group of Jamia students stood shirtless in the bone-chilling cold of a Delhi morning to protest the action against their colleagues on Sunday.

 

Slogans of "inquilab zindabad" were heard about 10 students, accompanied by their fellow colleagues, took out a small march, demanding a CBI inquiry into the "police brutality".

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Citizenship Act: Several DU students boycott exams, hold protests

Several Delhi University students on Monday boycotted exams and held protests to express solidarity with students of Jamia Millia and AMU protesting against the amended Citizenship Act following which heavy force has been deployed at the Arts Faculty.

 

Sources said students from the English department of the varsity had written to their professors on Sunday night to postpone exams owing to the situation in Jamia but their request could not be considered since it was late.

 

A source said the students were told that since the exams are at the fag end a decision on their postponement was not possible. Also, the varsity can only take a call to postpone exams and not the respective department, the sources said.

 

At the Delhi University, students alleged that police cracked down on peacefully protesting students who boycotted exams.

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21 arrested in connection with clash following anti-CAA protest at Aligarh Muslim University: Aligarh SSP Akash Kulhary

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Leaders of Opposition parties to address media at 1:30 pm

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Some students of Nadwatul Ulama Institute in Lucknow indulged in stone-pelting: UP DGP OP Singh

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No one was injured, situation is under control: DPG OP Singh on protests at Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow.

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Delhi Minorities Commission seeks information from students and others injured in Jamia protest

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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh challenges Citizenship Amendment Act in SC

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh challenges Citizenship Amendment Act in Supreme Court, court to hear plea on Wednesday