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BJP plans over 1,000 CAA camps across West Bengal, to focus on Bangladesh-bordering districts ahead of SIR and polls
October 24, 2025 5:35 am
The Bengal unit of the party held a workshop to train party workers, leaders, and representatives of “apolitical” organisations, who are expected to help Hindu refugees apply for citizenship in their localities.
A new immigration law reflects India’s rising paranoia over the ‘undesirable outsider’
May 23, 2025 1:17 pm
The Supreme Court, too, has indirectly supported the systematic and incremental erosion of refugee rights
2020 Delhi riots: Devangana Kalita seeks clarification on preservation of case records, HC tells prosecution to ‘show fairness’
April 07, 2025 3:26 pm
Devangana Kalita and fellow student activist Natasha Narwal are named as accused in an FIR registered for being among those who organised an anti-CAA protest and road blockade under Delhi’s Jafrabad metro station on February 22-23, 2020.
‘Happy I’m an Indian now’: Pakistan-born Christian man becomes 2nd Goan resident to get citizenship under CAA
December 11, 2024 9:32 am
Shane Sebastian Pereira, whose family is from Demello Vaddo in North Goa’s Anjuna, was born in Pakistan’s Karachi on August 4, 1981.
UPSC Issue at a Glance | Section 6A and Citizenship
November 01, 2024 9:50 am
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955. What is Section 6A? How is it 'legislative corollary' to the Assam Accord? Moreover, how can Indian citizenship be acquired? Take a look.
CAA paperwork simplified, ambit of rules widened after Govt issues clarification
August 10, 2024 8:16 am
Any document issued by Centre or state or quasi-judicial body in India will now suffice
Don’t refer cases of Hindus, Sikhs, Christians to Foreigner Tribunals, urge them to apply under CAA: Assam govt to border police
July 16, 2024 12:41 am
The CAA enables the fast-tracking of the citizenship process for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christans from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who entered India before December 31, 2014.
‘You’re saluting Modi to save your chair’: CM slams Rajnath
April 25, 2024 9:26 am
Criticises HC order cancelling teachers’ appointments, says it’s BJP’s ‘tirtha kendra’
US Commission on International Religious Freedom raises concern over India's notification of rules to implement CAA
March 27, 2024 8:57 pm
India has previously said that the Commission continues to regurgitate such comments and India rejects the "misrepresentation of facts" which only serves to "discredit USCIRF itself".
P Chidambaram writes: The soup kitchen
March 24, 2024 9:54 am
The crisis created by alphabets, numerics and alpha-numerics has assumed proportions that may threaten national interest and, even, national security.
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From Belur Math to Kolkata Port Trust, how PM Modi spent his second day in the city
January 12, 2020 5:28 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his second day in Kolkata, paid tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary at the Belur Math, the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission.
Banners, placards, black flags: Day 1 of PM Modi in Kolkata
January 11, 2020 11:24 pm
Modi on his arrival was greeted at the NSC Bose International Airport by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, city Mayor and state Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh and other senior BJP leaders.
Art, graffiti give voice to Jamia students' protest against CAA
January 02, 2020 9:12 pm
The university has been at the centre of protests since December 15, the day when police lobbed teargas shells inside the campus, forced their way in, and allegedly dragged students out of the library and mosque.
In Pictures: Rallies for and against Citizenship Act in Mumbai and Pune
December 27, 2019 8:22 pm
On Friday evening, a huge crowd gathered outside Old Delhi’s Jama Masjid after the Friday prayers to protest against the new citizenship law, including Congress leader Alka Lamba and former Delhi MLA Shoaib Iqbal. Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh, security has been beefed up and patrolling intensified even as internet services continued to remain suspended in 21 districts in the wake of widespread protests against the citizenship law.
As CAA protests continue to create stir nationwide, Cong holds dharna at Rajghat
December 24, 2019 9:06 am
Party chief MK Stalin, Congress leader P Chidambaram and MDMK’s Vaiko are leading the march.
This is how protests against CAA unfolded in Jama Masjid, other parts of India on Friday
December 20, 2019 9:00 pm
From Delhi's Jama Masjid to Mumbai's Kurla and beyond, the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) continued Friday with crowds marching in cities like Mumbai, Pune, Thane, and Vadodara.
Charred vehicles, vandalised police station: Pictures that tell the story of violence in Lucknow
December 22, 2019 7:24 am
Protesters pelted stones and torched vehicles parked outside a police post in Lucknow. Police fire teargas shells to control the situation in Madeyganj area. About 20 people have been taken into custody.
Protests rage across India against Citizenship Act; Yechury, Ramachandra Guha among scores detained
December 19, 2019 7:25 pm
As protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act continue, thousands defied the lockdown declared across Uttar Pradesh, parts of Karnataka as people hit streets across at least 10 states.
Violence over CAA spreads to Delhi's Seelampur: Buses vandalised, stones pelted at police
December 17, 2019 5:31 pm
Protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act continued Tuesday as a protest march against the new citizenship law turned violent in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur area on Tuesday when demonstrators clashed with police personnel and damaged several buses.
Jamia students take to the streets in anger over CAB
December 14, 2019 9:58 am
While a protest gathering had been called by the Jamia Teachers’ Association at 2 pm, a march, by the university students, was to begin at 3 pm. The plan was to walk from Jamia’s gate 7 to Parliament, roughly 11 km away.
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