LIVE News Updates: NHRC team to visit Jamia on Jan 14 to meet students injured in police action

A National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) team will visit the Jamia Millia Islamia University on January 14 to meet the students and staff members who got injure din the December 15 police action.

A posse of Delhi police personnel had barged into the JMI campus on December 15 evening without due permission from the varsity administration, indiscriminately fired teargas shells, ransacked the library and brutally beat up students and staff members.

A protest near Jamia against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) had earlier turned violent and the protesters clashed with the police. The police initially alleged that Jamia students were part of the mob, though an inquiry later revealed no Jamia student was involved in the violence or arson.

Vice Chancellor Najma Akhtar said that the NHRC team will take statements of the injured students and the witnesses of the incident.

"I hope they will try to see through our point of view," she said.

A few artistes from the Asmita theatre group on Sunday raised slogans against the CAA and NRC at Pragati Maidan. They were detained by the police and released after ovr two hours.

The Delhi Police said: "Information was received around 1600 hrs that some persons were raising anti-NRC slogans at Pragati Maidan. Five persons associated with Asmita Theatre Group were detained and later released at 1820 hours."

Kashmir Zone Police on Tral encounter: 3 terrorists killed. Arms & ammunition recovered. Identities & affiliations being ascertained.

Two persons were killed and three others injured when the car they were travelling in fell into a gorge in Tehri Garhwal district, police said on Sunday.

The mishap occurred on Saturday evening on Dhatti-Ghandiyaldhar Road in Kirtinagar block killing two persons on the spot, Kirtinagar Sub Divisional Magistrate Raja Abbas said.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the voices of those protesting against the contentious citizenship law, NRC and National Population Register (NPR) cannot be muzzled, as he hailed the protests in West Bengal during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit.

Activists, who hit the streets on Saturday with placards that read 'Modi Go Back' and 'Down with BJP', continued their sit-in all night at Esplanade area of Kolkata, insisting that their agitation would continue till the prime minister left the city.

"The voices of those resisting the discriminatory CAA-NRC-NPR cannot be muzzled," Yechury tweeted.

Maradu flats demolition: Golden Kayalorum apartment demolished through a controlled implosion. All 4 illegal apartment towers have now been demolished in Kerala.

After the renaming of Kolkata port, BJP has now demanded to change the name of Victoria Memorial, the iconic marble building in Kolkata, after the warrior queen Rani Lakshmi Bai.

In a tweet senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said: "I welcome Namo's statement in Kolkata that History as we know should be reviewed. He should implement that statement by re-naming Victoria Memorial as Rani Jhansi Smarak Mahal. Queen Victoria took over India after the betrayal of Rani Jhansi in 1857 and looted India for 90 years".

Harmanpreet Kaur to lead India at the T20 World Cup in Australia. Opener Smriti Mandhana will be the vice captain. The tournament will be held between 21st February and 8th March 2020.

Protest held in Sarita Vihar demanding removal of barricades and blockage on road no. 13A between Mathura Road and Kalindi Kunj, in order to ease traffic movement. The road is closed for past many days due to ongoing anti CAA/NRC demonstration in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi.

Samajwadi Party leader Bijli Yadav shot dead in Muhammadabad, Mau. Police at the spot.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee skips the event of 150th-anniversary celebrations of Kolkata Port Trust, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Jain Coral Cove complex demolished through a controlled implosion.2 out of the 4 illegal apartment towers were demolished yesterday, today is the final round of the operation.

Maradu illegal flats demolition: Second warning siren sounded for demolition of Jain Coral Cove complex.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday came out in support of actor Deepika Padukone, who is facing flak from the BJP and some other quarters over her visit to the JNU campus in Delhi to express solidarity with students who were recently attacked by armed assailants.

Raut, who is a Rajya Sabha member and the executive editor of Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana', said the country cannot be run in a "Talibani" style.

Seven more students have been identified from the videos and photos that are viral on social media. Statements of warden, thirteen security guards and five students recorded, says Delhi Police Sources

Delhi: Congress workers distributed blankets among the poor people and relatives of patients sitting outside All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday night, on the occasion of party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi's birthday today.

Maharashtra: 7 people dead & 6 injured in the fire that broke out at a chemical factory in Boisar, Palghar on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump has said that the United States was monitoring Iranian demonstrations closely, warning against any new "massacre" as protests broke out after Tehran admitted to shooting down a passenger plane.

An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Gulshanpora area of Tral in the south Kashmir district Sunday morning after receiving specific intelligence about the presence of militants there, a police official said.

He said as the forces were conducting the searches, the militants fired at them, triggering an encounter.

The exchange of fire was going on, the official said, adding further details are awaited.

Delhi: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) band and marching contingents practising for Republic Day Parade 2020 at Rajpath.