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The cost of a wrongful deportation
The return of four West Bengal residents after Supreme Court intervention highlights the constitutional consequences of deporting individuals before verifying their citizenship
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Anti-CAA activists arrested in UP to spend New Year in jail
Their bail pleas will only be heard starting January 3, 2020
Do Dalits & Adivasis not suffer religious persecution, asks anti-CAA meet
“The Modi government has sought to camouflage its real...
Sandeep Pandey, VP Socialist Party (India) writes to UP CM
In his open letter, he questions the assurance of the BJP towards Muslims and the arrests of peaceful protestors and activists
New Year’s resolution: Defend the Constitution
More than 60 student organizations pledge to celebrate New Year’s by protesting the CAA & NRC
Over 16 deaths so far due to CAB-NRC panic in Bengal?
Since September this year, there have been reports coming from Bengal linking suicides and other deaths to the fear and panic of CAA-NRC among the working class.
BJP’s volte face in Bengal, says NRC matter of future
The party which has been staunchly advocating NRC, has now made a virtual u-turn, indicating that NRC may not be implemented in Bengal anytime soon.
Gujarat’s Nirma Univ ‘threatens’ protesters
Activists have shared screen shots of text messages the university purportedly sent to students and their parents with the media
West Bengal comes out in large numbers against the CAA and NRC
CM Mamata Banerjee has begun an official state-wide protest against the NRC
HRD Minister answers questions on NPR, unsure about difference between NPR and census
Union HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar was put to the task of answering questions at a press conference held by Press Information Bureau about NPR, which was, earlier today, approved by the Union Cabinet.
The self-respect of Assamese people can’t be defeated: Lurinjyoti Gogoi, AASU #antiCAA
Over 393 arrests and detentions in Assam, yet the protests against CAA rage on defying government curbs and repression
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