12 Jan, 00:01 (IST)

EU aviation agency warns against flying over Iran 'until further notice', reports AFP.

11 Jan, 22:55 (IST)

Pakistan: 1 person dead and 4 injured in a blast near Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

11 Jan, 22:36 (IST)

Sunil Gavaskar: Country is in turmoil. Some of our youngsters are out in the streets instead of being in classrooms&some of them are ending up in hospitals for being out on the streets. Admittedly, the majority is still in classrooms trying to forge career and to build and take India forward.

11 Jan, 22:00 (IST)

Dhananjay Kumar, Spokesperson, Air India: Due to heavy rain in Dubai and water logging at Dubai airport, Air India cancelled 4 flights today.

11 Jan, 19:47 (IST)

Congress' Anand Sharma after Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting: CWC demands that the Citizenship Amendment Act should be withdrawn and the process of National Population Register be stopped forthwith.

11 Jan, 18:12 (IST)

Delhi: Fire breaks out in a shoe manufacturing factory in Mayapuri Phase-2. 20 fire tenders have rushed to the spot. No causality reported till now.

11 Jan, 17:31 (IST)

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee: While speaking to Prime Minister, I told him that we are against CAA, NPR and NRC. We want that CAA and NRC should be withdrawn.

11 Jan, 16:47 (IST)

PM Narendra Modi meets West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata. The Prime Minister is in Kolkata to take part in 150th anniversary celebrations of the Kolkata Port Trust.

11 Jan, 16:30 (IST)

The Naval Light Combat Aircraft made its first successful landing on the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)-developed fighter aircraft is expected to attempt its maiden take off from the carrier soon.

11 Jan, 16:10 (IST)

PM Narendra Modi arrives in Kolkata to participate in Kolkata Port Trust’s 150th-anniversary celebrations.

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Mumbai, January 11: The Union Home Ministry on Friday night announced that the provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have come into effect from January 10. The act -- promising citizenship to non-Muslim minorities coming from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh -- was passed by the Rajya Sabha on December 11 and got its assent from President Ram Nath Kovind on the very next day.

In another news, Delhi Police on Friday held a press conference in the national capital and named nine students, including JNU student union president Aishe Ghosh and two Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members as suspects for the violence in the varsity. The police held Ghosh and her three others for vandalising the server room of JNU on January 3 and 4. Also, charged her for creating hindrances for those students who want to get their registrations done. JNU Violence: From Delhi Police Press Conference to India Today Sting Operation & JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh's Response; Here's All That Happened.

Meanwhile, around 20 people are feared dead after a bus -- carrying 46 people -- collided with a truck in Kannauj district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday evening. Following this, it caught fire. Police say that the bus headed to Jaipur when it collided with a truck head-on. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had expressed his condolences, while CM Yogi Adityanath had ordered a probe.