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.

This tiny island country is selling its citizenship for Rs 91 lakh. Here's why

March 06, 2025 10:25 pm

Nauru lacks the resources to shield itself from a crisis disproportionately driven by wealthier countries. Selling citizenship, the government says, will help finance a plan to relocate 90% of the island’s population to higher ground and build a new community.

What to know about court cases over President Trump's birthright citizenship order

February 06, 2025 12:07 pm

US District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle has scheduled a hearing involving lawyers from the Trump administration, four states suing to stop the order.

Amid Donald Trump's order over birthright citizenship in US, doctors highlight risks of preterm deliveries: 'If a C-section is done to deliver the baby then...'

January 28, 2025 10:30 am

Preterm delivery often results in underdeveloped organs in the baby and could trigger postpartum complications in the mother, say doctors.

22 Democratic-led states sue over Donald Trump move to end birthright citizenship

January 22, 2025 7:41 am

Following his inauguration, Trump ordered US agencies to stop recognising the citizenship of children born in the US to parents who are not US citizens or legal permanent residents.

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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.