UP cops arrest Dr Kafeel Khan from Mumbai airport for 'inflammatory' speech

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The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has captured Dr Kafeel Khan from Mumbai air terminal for purportedly offering fiery expressions at AMU during fights the Citizenship Amendments Act (CAA) a month ago, authorities said.
Khan was captured on Wednesday night with help from Mumbai Police at the air terminal when he landed in the city to go to against CAA fights, an authority said.
"Authorities of the UP STF captured Dr Kafeel Khan for a situation which was enrolled at Civil Lines Police Station under segment 153 An (advancing animosity between various gatherings) of IPC. Our police group helped our UP partners on their solicitation," said an authority from Mumbai Police.
He asserted that Khan had offered incendiary expressions on December 12 a year ago during the dissent close Bab e Syed Gate outside the Aligarh Muslim University before in excess of 600 understudies.
The authority additionally affirmed that the Gorakhpur specialist had offered questionable remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The FIR against Khan makes reference to that Swaraj India's leader Yogendra Yadav was likewise present during the discourse at AMU.
Following the capture for the situation, Khan was taken to the Sahar Police Station and in the wake of finishing customs he will be taken to UP on travel remand, the authority said.

Khan, a pediatrician, had gone to the spotlight in 2017 when a contention broke out after the demise of more than 60 kids in under seven days at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, UP...Read More

CAA, NRC 'may affect status' of Muslims in India: US Congressional report

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The amended citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government "may affect the status" of Muslim minority in India, a report by US Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said.
The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India's history, a religious criterion has been added to the country's naturalization process.
The CRS is an independent research wing of the US Congress which prepares reports periodically on issues of domestic and global importance for the lawmakers to take informed decision. These are not considered as official reports of the US Congress.
"In tandem with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) planned by the federal government, the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) may affect the status of India's large Muslim minority of roughly 200 million," said the CRS in its first ever report on the amended Citizenship law.According to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, non-Muslim refugees who came to India till December 31, 2014, to escape religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship.
Since both houses of Parliament approved amendments to the citizenship law earlier this month, protests - sometimes violent - have taken place across the country during which many protesters have died, especially in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.

"India's Citizenship Act of 1955 prohibited illegal immigrants from becoming citizens. Among numerous amendments to the act since 1955, none contained a religious aspect," the CRS said in its two-page report...Read More

GoAir cancels flights due to delayed aircraft deliveries by Airbus

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Budget carrier GoAir, which cancelled multiple flights earlier this week, on Thursday said the delay in aircraft deliveries by Airbus has added to its operational challenge.
The Wadia group-owned airline cancelled as many as 40 flights this week on account of shortage of staff and inclement weather, among others issues.
"GoAir has placed order of 144 Airbus A320Neo aircraft and experienced delivery delays during the month of November and December, adding to its operational challenge," the airline said in a clarification issued on Wednesday.
It also said that due to inclement weather in North India, the airline experienced extensive flight delays and diversions leading to cancellations of flights as its crew approached its flight duty time limits (FDTL) in the last two-three days.
The cockpit and cabin crew duty and rest norms are governed by the aviation safety regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation.

The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests wherein GoAir crew members were unable to report for duty further exacerbated the issue, the airline added.....Read More

German IIT-M student asked to leave India for taking part in CAA protest

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A German understudy at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has said he was approached to leave India for challenging the new citizenship law that has started agitation the nation over.
"1933 to 1945; We Have Been There," said a notice Jacob Lindenthal, conveyed when he joined others in Chennai to challenge the Citizenship (Amendment) Act a week ago. Lindenthal had a semester left of his post-graduation in Physics and he was planned to leave India in May 2020
Lindenthal told news associations IIT-Madras and migration authorities requested that he leave Chennai on Monday. "There were evidently organization issues with my visa. In the wake of administering these out, I was broadly examined by the movement official concerning my political sentiments. At that point I was educated about the choice (requesting that he leave)," he was cited by News18.com as saying.
He included that he would counsel his legal counselor and choose the following strategy.
An understudies' body, ChintaBar, tweeted in solidarity with Lindenthal.
Refering to sources, The Indian Express detailed that an IIT official had sent a report about Lindenthal's support in the fights to "higher-ups." When reached by the paper, IIT authorities said they were ignorant of the "episode" including Lindenthal.

Reports said an outsider partaking in a political movement or dissent is an infringement of visa standards.....Read More