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26-Year Citizenship Battle Ends: Barpeta Tribunal rules Alam Khan is Indian

After decades of uncertainty, the Tribunal finds that credible evidence, not documentary imperfections, determines citizenship under the Foreigners Act

Hate crime committed against foreign students in Gujarat University

Foreign students attacked in GU, rooms and motorcycles vandalised over namaz row

Conspiracy or Coincidence? Mosques defaced in March after spate of hate speeches provoking the crime weeks before

Provocation and crime: three separate incidents of vandalism and defacement of Mosques since January after three hate speeches calling for demolition of Mosques since January

Bodoland University’s cultural event reportedly displays Muslims as criminals escorted by police, student groups demand apology  

A cultural procession organised by its Department of History at the Bodoland University in Kokrajhar, Assam took a disturbing turn when it depicted Muslims as criminals.

CAA: An attempt to legitimise expansionist nationalism

The CAA 2019 and recent rules are not only violates national and international law, but through arcane notions of Akhand Bharat, promotes a rigid expansionist nationalism

CAA disregards India’s inclusive plural ethos, ‘betrays’ ideals of freedom struggle: PUCL

"Outraged" at the move of the Central government to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019) weeks before the election, the top rights group, People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), has demanded that the law be repealed. Filing an urgent application for stay on the implementation of the law before the Supreme Court, PUCL said in a statement that it will "continue to fight against citizenship laws such as the CAA, which are unconstitutional and discriminates on grounds of religion."

Tensions rise as Chhattisgarh sees frequent attacks on Christians

Chhattisgarh sees Christian community protest as the Bajrang Dal continues to accuse them of religious conversion.

15-year-old Muslim boy reportedly driven to suicide after he was humiliated and beaten by teachers

Hate crimes against minorities continue to abound as religious minorities, including Muslims, face violence across the country. From vigilante groups to school teachers and principals harassing and perpetuating anti-Muslim hate, Muslims continue to live a dangerous life.

Gauhati University is under complete lockdown, as protests against the CAA implementation spread across Assam, fears of the 2019 repression and loss of life...

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.

Government notifies CAA regulations, opposition decries it as a means to polarise voters

 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.

Selective & discriminatory, CAA notification likely to be followed by NPR-NRC

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

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