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“Pradhan Helped BJP Win Odisha, Gyanesh Is Helping It Win India” | Aishe Ghosh | Teesta Setalvad

Aishe Ghosh speaks with Teesta Setalvad about student protests, political crackdowns and the fight for democracy in India.From the 2020 crackdown on student activists to today’s protests, they discuss...

EXCLUSIVE: BJP Govt plans to evict 70 lakh Muslims, 60 lakh Bengali Hindus through its Land Policy (2019) in Assam

Cong protests push back sinister plan through vociferous protests in the Assam assembly yesterday. Now the policy will be discussed in January or February 2020

1984 riots: Manmohan Singh’s googly leaves Cong red-faced

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set the cat among...

Is Harsh Goenka scared of criticizing the Modi government?

He tweeted a satirical tweet against the regime but quickly deleted it

SC to hear DMK’s petition on delimitation before TN local body polls

Elections for panchayats and other local bodies are scheduled...

CAB 2019 is not just Unconstitutional, it is meant to create communal divides

 The proposed Citizenship amendment bill is an assault on...

SC releases P Chidambaram on bail

He had spent 106 days in jail following arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case

Sri Lankan refugees, the persecuted people that CAB is forgetting

While considering granting citizenship to Non-Muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the Centre has been conspicuous in excluding the more than 1 lakh Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.

Assam remains popular subject current Parliament session; questions on NRC, D-voters continue

D voters are people whose position as voters has been dubbed 'doubtful' though the criteria for this exclusion has often be found to be somewhat arbitrary, being the responsibility of lower in the hierarchy officials of the Commission. The Election Commission started classifying citizens as D voter in 1997. The Border Police would refer suspected foreigners to Foreigners’ Tribunals - - again without preliminary investigation - - following which there would be a trial within Assam's Foreigners Tribunals where they would be required to prove that they are genuine Indian citizens. This system does not, so far, exist anywhere else in the country.

Meeting held to oppose nationwide NRC-NPR

Mumbra: At a meeting organized by Awaaz-e-Niswaan (Women’s voice)...

The Great Indian ‘CAB’cophony

The Cabinet has passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019 and its introduction is awaited in either houses of the Parliament any day now. The government expects and believes that the bill will be passed by the Parliament (both houses) by December 10. The opposition is unlikely to allow smooth sailing of the amendment that seriously alters the fundamentals of Indian citizenship

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