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Gauhati HC draws a line against automatic family-wide ‘foreigner’ declarations

Setting aside a Foreigners Tribunal order against five children, the High Court ruled that kinship alone cannot determine citizenship status and reiterated that every individual must face an independent legal reference before being declared a foreigner

‘If there is anything truly secular in India it is the violence against women’

  Brinda Karat General secretary, All India Democratic Women’s Association   There are...

Triple talaq: counter–perspective

  The recent meeting of the All India Muslim Personal...

Laws relating to divorce in Muslim majority countries

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‘Us’ or ‘the enemy’

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  Heated reactions and debates on reservations for Muslims, conjuring...

Article 16(4) was orginally meant for minorities’

It is generally not taken into consideration that special...

‘Muslim leaders don’t think, are ill-informed’

I think the Congress is not serious about helping...

‘Christians will support under-represented Muslims’

Principally, I am personally opposed to religion-based reservations and...

‘Stop pandering to the elite Mussalmaan’

The move of the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh...

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Since the late 19th century special provisions were instituted...

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