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Sunday, October 12, 2025
TopicAssam Accord

Topic: Assam Accord

Assam’s old 1970s fury back with Citizenship Act. This time for a new, young generation

With massive opposition to the Citizenship Act, Assam is again feeling alienated and wronged by New Delhi.

BJP Assam MPs flag fear & confusion in state, say Modi govt pushed citizenship bill too fast

BJP MPs from Assam say the bill is creating confusion in the state and emphasise that concerns of ethnic Assamese must be addressed.

Without a pan-India NRC, Modi-Shah know Citizenship Bill is nothing but symbolism 

BJP knows it is more alluring to keep talking about nationwide NRC than actually carrying out a complex process that can backfire, like it did in Assam.

40,000 workers, 15 lakh hearings, 6 months — what it took to halve Assam NRC list to 19 lakh

Final NRC list was whittled down to 19 lakh from 40 lakh in the draft. A deep dive into what the claims & objections process was all about.

Ranjan Gogoi-led Supreme Court made NRC messier. Now it must clean it up

The only solution lies in declaring the current Assam NRC as a provisional list and subjecting it to a full and fair review.

Assam agitation hotbed shows why NRC is nothing but a National Recipe for Chaos

In Mangaldoi, where push for NRC came during a 1978 bypoll, there’s barely any family that has not been split by the citizenship exercise.

15 August is special for Assam and it’s not just about Independence Day

While Assam was asleep, a historic pact was signed past midnight on 15 August.

Assam Accord panel that failed to meet even once due to citizenship row gets new members

The previous committee was set up in January 2019 to look into the implementation of Clause 6 of Assam Accord. But the members resigned soon after.

‘Foreigners’ in Assam tribunals are just unlucky Indians fighting cruel paperwork demands

As more people are forced into Assam's uninhabitable detention camps meant to keep ‘illegal Bangladeshis’, detainees look up to Supreme Court for relief.

Losing citizenship bill battle has provoked BJP to take polarisation agenda beyond Assam

BJP’s passion for citizenship bill will see a renewed push if NDA returns to power with a redefined nationalism plan for 2024.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.