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SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?
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Int’l panel of parliamentarians for freedom of religious belief writes to PM Modi
In their personal capacity, they request the PM and the government to protect India’s minorities and their ability to freely practice their faith
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Babri demolition accused to head Ram Temple Trust
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Kashmiri students re-arrested in Hubli after right-wing protest outside police station
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Anxiety in Assam: Hurdles in releasing detention camp inmates, delays in NRC rejection slips
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UIDAI sends notices to 127 people asking to prove citizenship
Facing backlash, it issues a press release saying it did so on complaints of the State police who suspected the people to be illegal immigrants
Uddhav Thackeray greenlights NPR, second U-Turn after CAA
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SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
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Rule of Law
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India
Assam NRC: Seven years after 19 lakh people were excluded, rejection slips remain a non-starter
Separate Supreme Court proceedings concern the failure to issue rejection slips to nearly 19.07 lakh excluded people and identity cards to more than 3.11 crore people included in the final register
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UP CEO apologises for minority remark on official X handle, but who is responsible?
After discrepancies in Uttar Pradesh’s electoral rolls prompted AAP leaders to question the Election Commission, the state’s Chief Electoral Officer posted a remark invoking caste and religion, following criticism, the handle apologised for its language, who was responsible for the post, what action has been taken, and why is it still online?
India
Karnataka’s final SIR roll delete electorate by nearly 1 crore; Bengaluru loses over 43 lakh names
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SIR Karnataka: Six major ‘conspiracies’ exposed in the final electoral roll
The author argues that for six cogent reasons, the final, post-SIR electoral roll has ensured the deletion of not just 99.3 lakh voters as has been admitted; this includes 75 lakhs of voters in the “shifted” and “absent” category; hence 99.3 lakhs plus another possible 27 lakhs by a gross under-representation of the elector-population ratio (EPR); roughly this means that the deletions swell to an approximate 1.26 crore voter deletions in total that is a staggering 18 per cent of the state’s electorate