citizenship

Canadian citizenship: Know how to apply, eligibility, process and rules

January 02, 2026 3:18 pm

Canada welcomes more than 430,000 new permanent residents every year, and many of them eventually go on to become citizens after completing the required period of residency.

The politics of footpaths is the politics of citizenship. For a better country, start walking more

January 01, 2026 1:52 pm

Until uninterrupted footpaths are visible underfoot and not just in master plans, the walkers of Indian cities will remain its most neglected citizens

Supreme Court on SIR pleas: Can EC inquire into citizenship status in dubious entries

December 10, 2025 4:42 am

Section 19 of the RP Act says that any person who is not less than 18 years of age on the qualifying date, and is ordinarily resident in a constituency, shall be entitled to be registered in the electoral roll for that constituency.

US Supreme Court to decide legality of Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship

December 06, 2025 1:17 am

On his first day in office as the 47th US President, Trump signed the executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship

Canada's new citizenship-by-descent law: Recognition of 'Lost Canadians', impact on Indians

November 25, 2025 6:12 pm

Canada new citizenship rules, Canada Bill C-3 reform: With the passage of Bill C-3, Ottawa has moved to correct long-standing gaps that left thousands of people, often called 'Lost Canadians', unable to inherit citizenship because of where they or their parents were born. Here is what to know about the new law

Canada changes rules for citizenship by descent: All you need to know

November 24, 2025 6:45 pm

Bill C-3 aims to fix a long-standing complaint of first-generation Canadian citizens, whose children did not inherit their parents' citizenship as they were born abroad.

Might is not right: In Bihar SIR, an old question about justice and power

August 21, 2025 7:43 pm

Who will protect the voting right of a citizen born in India who has no document to establish citizenship because his birth was not registered, who didn’t go to school even if there's right to education, if he is landless?

For Indians, the American dream is getting more and more complex

August 13, 2025 12:55 am

A community so far perceived positively in the US, which refers to itself as a ‘model minority’ with its highest median income and education levels of all demographic groups, Indians in the US are feeling a tightening immigration landscape

Citizenship, due process, timing: SC marks out three key issues for the commission

July 11, 2025 7:55 am

A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi said that “there is no question that this issue is an important one and goes to the very root of democracy and the right to vote.”

Man celebrates his New Zealand citizenship by taking off ‘India’ T-shirt in viral video

March 18, 2025 9:03 pm

The man removes his Indian jersey only to reveal a ‘New Zealand’ T-shirt underneath.

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June 22, 2020 6:20 pm

What is the Assam NRC and what it means to be left out of it

June 22, 2020 6:20 pm

With 40 lakh people being left out of the Assam NRC, there is a huge debate on what their future is. Here's a look at what the Assam NRC is and how the government is addressing the controversies.