VRGR '%&((!1#VCEB R BP A"'!#$#1!$"#0$"T utqBVQWBuxy( 6 7 C - 6 6 6 &()*&+,-. ;4 $ #$% '< &&' !=> ;, 5 , 2)345 ()*+,- .)/01 #0@,3%2,3, 53#. 5,.%0+5%@554 3#3,@,$5+3#35 3#*030,A 3 -5,$25B%/ - -3#$20@,, -%05 !" ,/ 01,23!,04 = $ %'( $) +,-,#,./-, R !! /4/5%3,6,#7%,3467047,, ive empty trains, 15 buses Fand many other public properties, including shops !" ### and Central Government facil- # #$ ## # ities, were torched in different %& # parts of Bengal even as the State # !' # continued to boil and burn for () ## the second consecutive day on !"# Saturday over the enactment of # * # # # Citizenship Act and possible !+, %&# # invoking of National Register # for Citizens (NRC). - # ! Even as Chief Minister " # # !" ' Mamata Banerjee made frantic ! " ## appeal to people against taking #$ % #( law in their hands, protesters & " ## * %! torched empty rakes at Lalgola - # the last Indian Railway station Howrah-CSMT Geetanjali Passenger etc. ' Q / # a few miles from Bangladesh Express, Howrah-Ernakulam The agitators mostly from !", 0%&M # # border. The CM said she won’t Antodaya Express, Howrah- a particular community not M allow NRC or CAB in the Digha-Howrah Kandari only targeted Government # !2 P4 #Q State. Lalgola is in Express, Coromondal Express properties but also torched # # # Murshidabad district that mob put to fire a railway sig- adding about 15 public and pri- specific direction. from Howrah, Howrah- shops belonging to private cit- accounts for about 67 per cent naling facility and torched a fire vate buses were torched and About 20 trains, including Yesvantpur Duronto Express, izens, said sources, adding *%## Q!5 of minority population. brigade engine that was rushed protesters pelted stones at vehi- some 10 express trains were Howrah-Hyderabad East Coast about 20 shops were set on fire # # # At Basudevpur, violent in to control the fire. By late cles on NH-6 — popularly stranded in several routes as Express, Puri-Digha at Bagnan in rural Howrah. # !2 evening the situation had lit- known as Bombay Road and protesters squatted on railway Express, Puri-Santragachhi Turn to Page 4 6# M / Q ## erally gone out of control with NH-2 — known as Delhi Road. tracks at Sankrail, Mourigram *%M5 ## %& no fire fighting team daring to The agitators blocked both and Bakranawaz stations, # # # # move into the affected areas. Kona Expressway — that con- Railway, said sources, adding ! Similar incidents were nects Howrah and Kolkata to many more trains were can- ! " 5 reported from North 24 Golden Quadrilateral — and celled too. # 0 Parganas and rural Howrah, NH-34 — that connects South Among the cancelled trains ##!" ## +'" where several long-distances Bengal to North Bengal — were Howrah-Digha AC # $% ! $ # (0 # trains were halted, after the a throwing burning tyres on the Express, Howrah-Pune # N+8!O" portion of the Sankrail station roads even as helpless police Duronto Express, Howrah- # was vandalised, said police, brigade looked on for want of Tirupati Humsafar Express, ! sory, the US Government said 0 # # it has temporarily suspended # % official travels to Assam, the ## epicentre of the protests. Q# ! &' The empty oil tanker, on - )R %! its way for refilling petrol 2 ./+,2,36#5+5423 from Sipajhar in Udalguri dis- #( # : .3%3326,.2 ,%, trict, was set ablaze by a group Q# 892,%72,#: of people at Dhekiajuli in R ( Sonitpur on Friday night, ## poradic violence continued police said. Sin Assam on Saturday The driver of the tanker -' against the amended was taken to a private nursing (!' Citizenship Act. An oil tanker home where he succumbed to was set ablaze in Sonitpur dis- severe burn injuries on 3 ## trict whose driver succumbed Saturday morning, they said. # # to injuries even as curfew was Meanwhile, AASU, Asom Q relaxed in Guwahati from 9 am Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra !" to 4 pm. But students’ associ- Parishad (AJYCP) and 30 0 !" # "" #5+5423 R ations have given a call for 3- other organisations of indige- $ - # $ day satyagraha and the State nous people, spearheading the ;<=!*"# Q # $ ours after Jamia Millia #5+5423 Government employees have agitation against the Act, held ( # HIslamia on Saturday decided to cease work on protests in all districts of the 0 '-! annouced winter vacation till nfazed over the BJP’s December 18. Brahmaputra Valley along with " January 5 and cancelled semes- Uattack on him for his Protesters also resorted to senior citizens, students, ' >? ' ter exams in view of the tense “Rape in India” comment, blockade of rail and indulged artists, singers, intellectuals # !5 situation in the university due Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in sit-ins and hunger strike. and teachers among others. ## # # to students protest against the on Saturday, in fact, went on to Several countries, includ- The AJYCP blocked tracks # new citizenship law, the stu- mock Sangh ideologue Veer $ ' ( P ing the US, the UK, Israel at Kamakhya railway station, # !5 # # dents called off their universi- Savarkar. $ & # * $+ * Canada and Singapore, have disrupting train services from # # ty lockdown. “My name is Rahul Gandhi, asked their citizens to exercise Guwahati to other parts of the # # # “All exams have been post- not Rahul Savarkar. I will never caution while travelling to the country. ' # ! poned. The new dates to be apologise for speaking truth Q R Northeast India. In its advi- Turn to Page 4 " Q ## announced in due course of and nor will any Congressman 0 A2B time. Vacation declared from do so. It is Prime Minister ##C - # !5 December 16 to January 5. Narendra Modi and his assis- ! " D ( , 6 # University will reopen on tant Home Minister Amit Shah # ! # # # P #Q January 6, 2020,” a senior uni- who has to apologise to the makes him a worthy legatee of 5 # P Q5 !,# versity official said. country for destroying India’s the Pakistan’s founder. # ( The university adminis- economy,” Rahul said while %!( The Shiv Sena, the new - # # ## #, tration said those who indulged addressing the Congress’ Bharat alliance partner of the Congress 0!, ## in violence and clashed with Bachao Rally here. in Maharashtra, also reacted 5 ? + police on Friday were “out- The Congress leader was #5+5423 sharply saying there could not 02 ? # siders” and not students. Jamia apparently referring to the alle- be any “compromise” on the # # / students, teachers and alumni, gation against Savarkar that he he BJP retaliated saying Hindutva ideologue. “Savarkar ! 5 said they have formed a coor- tendered apology to the British Teven if Rahul Gandhi takes was ‘Veer’, patriot and had sac- # 2 dination panel to hold peace- for securing early release from 100 births he can’t be Rahul rificed. The language Rahul 5 ( ful protests against the amend- the Cellular Jail in Andaman. Savarkar and a “more appro- Gandhi uses for Article 370, air ' # ! ed Citizenship Act. They said Rahul’s “Rape in India” com- priate” name for the Congress strike, surgical strike, CAB is 5 # !5 the law is discriminatory. ment in an election rally in leader is “Rahul Jinnah” as his Pakistan’s language. " # 2 ( ( Turn to Page 4 Turn to Page 4 “Muslim appeasement” politics Turn to Page 4 *" , 0 # !" !5Q ## 02 # # - # & ! $' R$ #2 !2# ## # 02 # ' # 4 5 !"02## "" #5+5423 a ceiling fan in a room and then 4 5 she went to another room and #- 2 ! ours after a 33-year-old committed suicide by hanging " # # Hman ended his life by herself from a ceiling fan,” said !" # ## jumping in front of a train at Bhanuvesh Kumar, Station # # the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium House Officer, Expressway # !2# Metro Station in Delhi, his wife police station in Noida. 5 A 0 killed her five-year-old daugh- “Shivranjani was a house- E B ter and then committed suicide wife while her daughter was # ! by hanging herself from a ceil- studying in nursery. In " !6 # ing fan at their residence in September 2019, the family # C Noida on Friday. Police said had shifted at JP Pavallion, ,! # initial investigation suggests Noida Sector 128. Bharat and ! '+ that the family was going Shivranjani were married for "#$% ' # !5 # ! through financial crisis. Metro Station. Shivranjani, along with her last 10 years. Bharat was work- " #' # The deceased have been According to a senior - ./0 + daughter, had come to the hos- ing with Golden Tulips as a - 2 !Q# identified as Shivranjani and police official, on Friday at .$01 $ .0 pital to identify the body, said general manager,” said the ! 5 # !"# !' her daughter Jayashritha, resi- 11:27 am a police control room the senior police official. SHO. # ## !"# dents of Sector 128, Noida. Her (PCR) call was received that a team rushed to the spot and According to Noida police, “Police have initiated an #$ # ! husband Bharat J, a native