Guwahati, Jan 9 (PTI) Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill intensified in different parts of Assam Wednesday with agitators burning effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and gheraoing the state secretariat here.

Protestors burnt effigies of the prime minister and chief minister at Digboi, Goalpara, Lakhimpur and Barpeta against the passing of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Lok Sabha.

New Delhi, Jan 9 (PTI) The BJP has trained over 1.5 million party workers in the last four years as part of its leadership training programme, the party's training wing said in a statement, asserting that it will have huge impact in ensuring voter turnout and support for the party in the Lok Sabha polls.

It makes the BJP the only political party in the country which has a trained political human resource, and this will form the backbone of the organisation's workforce and leadership reserve in the days to come, the statement said.

10 Jan 2019; DW: Police have arrested a man after suspicious packages were received by numerous foreign embassies and consulates across Australia. Affected countries included Germany, the US and UK.

The 48-year-old suspect was arrested at his home in Shepparton, in the southern state of Victoria, federal and state police said in a joint statement on Thursday.

Meerut (UP), Jan 10 (PTI) Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha member Shikhar Agarwal, a key suspect in the mob violence in Bulandshahr last month, was arrested early Thursday, police said.

Agarwal was held from the adjoining Hapur district by the Bulandshahr police, a senior official said.

"He was arrested this morning. We are interrogating him and will produce him in the local court later today," Additional Superintendent of Police (Bulandhshahr city) Atul Kumar Srivastava told PTI.

Muzaffarnagar, Jan 9 (PTI) A woman and her paramour were arrested Wednesday for allegedly killing her 40-year-old mother here, police said.

Ishavati was found dead at her house and her daughter Nilam in an unconscious state on Saturday, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sudhir Kumar said.

During investigation, it was found that Nilam and her paramour Manu were involved in the killing, he said.

It is suspected that the duo killed the woman as she had opposed their relationship, Kumar said.

New Delhi, January 9; GANASHAKTI: The following press release has been issued to the media by the Central Trade Unions in the press-meet on 9th January 2019 at New Delhi.

Raipur, Jan 9 (PTI) A40-year-old villager was allegedly killed bynaxalsin Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker districton suspicion of being a police informer, police said Wednesday.

The body of the victim Suresh Hupendi was found dumped on the outskirts of his village Niche Kamta under Amabeda police station limits this morning, a senior police officer told PTI.

As per preliminary information, a group of naxals stormed into the house of Hupendi on Tuesday evening and forcibly took him along with them, he said.

Jaipur/Agra, Jan 9 (PTI) Congress president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said the prime minister got a woman to defend him in Parliament as he couldn't do so himself, a remark that appeared to trigger a sharp retort from Narendra Modi who accused the opposition of insulting Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Calling Modi a prime minister who claimed to have a broad chest, Gandhi said, the prime minister had "run away" from debate in Parliament on the defence deal.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s media is reporting that Jaguar Land Rover will announce up to 5,000 job cuts as the carmaker addresses slowing demand in China and growing uncertainty about the U.K.’s departure from the European Union.

The BBC says the luxury carmaker will cut around 5,000 jobs in marketing, management and administrative roles. The company employs about 44,000 people in the U.K.

Chennai, Jan 9 (PTI) IIT Madras scientists have created what they call 'space fuel' by simulating interstellar conditions in the lab, a method that may be used to convert atmospheric CO2 into a next generation energy source on Earth.

The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could help curb greenhouse gases as well as provide a new, sustainable source of energy.

KAMPALA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday unveiled the largest solar power plant in East and Central Africa which has the capacity to generate a total of 20 megawatts of electricity.

The Kabulasoke Pilot Solar Park is located in the central Ugandan district of Gomba.

According to the State House Uganda, the president's official residence, the solar park project is already connected to the national grid and will serve more than 5 million people in rural areas.

New Delhi, Jan 9(PTI) The Indian Youth Congress's Yuva Kranti Yatra Wednesday reached Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, after covering 8,000 kms in the past 25 days.

The Yuva Kranti Yatra, a nation-wide public outreach campaign of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) in run up to the Lok Sabha polls was flagged off from Kanyakumari on December 16, 2018.

There is "deep unrest" among farmers and youth against the Modi government, IYC president Keshav Chandra Yadav said in a press statement.