A series of protests have unfolded all across Assam after the Centre, on March 11, furnished the rules and regulations of the Citizenship Amendment Act, which was passed in 2019.
The government officially issued a notification on March 12, bringing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) into effect in the run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Since the time that the intent of what became the CAA Amendment of 2019 was conceived and found its way into the BJP’s 2014 manifesto, its intent has been divisive and exclusionary; the threats issued time and again by the minister for home affairs that CAA 2019 would follow a “chronology” –All India NPR and NRC—made the intent worse; insecurity and social upheavals will be the result of this cynical diktat
Not only are the Balochis and Ahmadiyas from Pakistan abandoned under this skewed law, but so are Uyghur Muslims of China and Tamil Hindus or Sri Lanka
The film, inspired by the 2020-2021 Indian farmers protest against the now repealed three contentious farm laws offers viewers a unique insight; it explains how MSP is nothing but a levelling of urban & rural incomes at no cost to the consumer; director, Bedabrata Pain and two others drove over 10,000 kilometres, at the height of the pandemic, through the food bowl of America, capturing the heart-wrenching accounts of American farmers who became victims of the “mind-set of the market” 40 years ago.
On February 17th in Vadodara, Gujarat, an 8-year-old student studying in class 3 was targeted and reportedly abused by his fellow classmates. Reports suggest that similar incidents of discrimination have happened in the school earlier as well.
Rejecting the extension application of SBI the SC has ordered the bank to disclose the details of electoral bonds, including donor and party details, by 12 March
Renowned environmental scientist, Madhav Gadgil, who was a recipient of numerous awards including the Padma Shri in 1981 and the Padma Bhushan in 2006, passed away in Pune late night on Wednesday, January 7, after a brief illness
While authorities insist the mosque was untouched and only illegal commercial structures were razed, FIRs, arrests, and eyewitness accounts point to a deeper story of mistrust, misinformation, and administrative haste
A detailed complaint documents how repeated hate speeches targeting Muslims threaten public order, minority safety, and the constitutional promise of fraternity