Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan wondered why Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims were left-out of the ambit of the Citizenship(Amendment) Bill if it was a "genuinely benevolent" legislation. Tamil Nadu has a significant number of Sri Lankan Tamils living in various parts of the state, including in government camps. Many of them had fled Sri Lanka during the ethnic strife in the 1980s.

The DRI said it has seized 42-kilograms of smuggled gold and more than 500-grams of jewellery, cumulatively valued at Rs.16.5-crore, and arrested 10-people in this connection. Acting on a tip-off, the DRI officials on Sunday raided a residence of a man in Kolkata and premises of his associates in various locations across the eastern metropolis and recovered gold, smuggled from Bangladesh, an official said.

The Jharkhand-HC granted bail to six-people arrested in connection with the killing of Tabrez Ansari in June. Justice R Mukhopadhyay granted bail to the six after their advocate AK Sahani informed the court that neither their names were mentioned in the FIR registered in connection with the death of Mr Ansari nor the main accused Papu-Mandal had implicated them during interrogation by the police.