Amid the ongoing protests against the controversial CAA and NRC, the Uttar Pradesh government has started primary data collection. As many as 37,000 Bangladeshi and Pakistani refugees have been identified so far in Pilibhit district. They are giving required information for getting Indian citizenship under the newly made citizenship act. There are large numbers of Pakistani and Bangladeshi refugees in Pilibhit's Ramnagar area.

Reacting-to-a-tweet by ace-lawyer Indira Jaising urging her to forgive the four-men on death-row for brutally raping her daughter, Nirbhaya's mother Asha-Devi said: "Even if God asks me, I won't forgive them." Speaking-to-IANS, over the phone, mother who had been fighting for seven-long-years to send her daughter's killers to the gallows, said, "...even if god comes and asks me to forgive them, I will not."

Hank-Azaria has officially confirmed he will no-longer be voicing the character Apu-Nahasapeemapetilon on "The Simpsons." In a recent interview with /Film, the actor said that he won't be voicing the fictional Indian-American Kwik-E-Mart owner anymore, "unless there's some way to transition it or something." The actor noted that show has considered the possibility of having someone of Indian descent replace him in the role.