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The recent moves by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the guise of the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar suggest that a backdoor effort is underway to prepare the NRC.

M A Baby writes: CAA, NRC and now SIR — Government is following a path that leads to disenfranchisement, exclusion

July 10, 2025 5:42 pm

Those who lament that progressive values of secularism and socialism are foreign concepts are in fact using regressive foreign ideas and methods to carry forward their divisive communal agenda

Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal write: Our friend, Gulfisha Fatima

May 01, 2025 12:53 pm

In jail, five years on, Gul’s life is marked from one date to another.

‘We can’t be from nowhere’: The 63 in Assam with ‘no addresses’

March 08, 2025 9:58 am

With the state telling the Supreme Court that the 63 inmates at the camp are Bangladeshis without an address, Bilal, who was declared an "illegal foreigner" says: "What address can I tell them… when I was born here, my grandparents were here?"

Don’t fall prey to rumours, warns JMI as AISA calls for boycott of classes over suspensions

February 16, 2025 4:14 am

The suspension notice, issued by JMI’s proctorial department to several students on February 12, read: “...on 10.02.2025, you were identified as leading an unruly and rowdy group of individuals to vandalise and deface university property"

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‘Feel like Indians today’: Pak Hindu immigrants vote for first time after being granted citizenship under CAA

February 06, 2025 12:15 pm

On Wednesday, more than 150 Pakistani immigrants from Majnu Ka Tila voted in the Delhi Assembly elections after receiving Indian citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act last year.

'Bangladeshi' jibe at BJP candidate sparks Assam row: 'Congress trying to put people in danger'

November 06, 2024 8:01 am

Dholai, where a bypoll is scheduled for November 13, is in the primarily Bengali-speaking Barak Valley. Citizenship issues are a sensitive matter in the region because it shares a long border with Bangladesh.

SC upholds Section 6A of Citizenship Act: what is the provision, why it was challenged

October 18, 2024 1:05 pm

What does Section 6A of the Citizenship Act state? Why was it challenged? What does the SC verdict mean for NRC?

In Goa, 78-yr-old Christian man from Pakistan first to get citizenship under CAA

78-year-old Christian man from Pakistan becomes first from Goa to get citizenship under CAA

August 30, 2024 10:14 pm

Born in 1946, Joseph Pereira, originally of Goan descent, migrated to Pakistan — before Goa was liberated and was under the Portuguese regime — and took up a job there.

Amit Shah: CAA doesn’t take away citizenship, Cong-led previous govts let ‘intruders’ in

August 19, 2024 1:44 am

Amit Shah said that those who took refuge in India were denied their rights due to the appeasement politics of past governments.

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Daily Briefing: Encounter in J&K; School scheme funds halted for 3 states; India’s next captain for T20s; and more

July 16, 2024 8:58 am

In today’s edition: School scheme funds halted for 3 states; encounter in Doda; mock polls for EVM check; Pakistan ban on PTI; India’s next captain for T20s; and more

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A week on, anti-CAA protests at Kolkata's 'Shaheen Bagh' continues to gather steam

January 15, 2020 5:26 pm

While at each of these places there were about 500 protesters,at Park Circus seven point crossing the protesters numbered around 2,000 at 3 pm,their strength only increased with time,said a senior traffic official,adding that traffic had to be rerouted at different places.