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Topic: Assam

Mallya’s five-star prison concerns and TRAI chief’s Twitter challenge that has gone south

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NRC will lead to ‘bloodbath’- Mamata Banerjee stoking communal fire or voicing public insecurity?

ThePrint Team -
Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said that Assam's NRC draft will divide the people of India and lead to "bloodbath and civil war in the country". Amit...

NRC shows Supreme Court has made a messy issue messier

Madhav Khosla -
Supreme Court’s direction to update the NRC while recognising that questions involved need to be settled by a larger bench is baffling.

Modi govt has a new crisis on its hands and its origins lie in the Supreme Court

Maneesh Chhibber -
Blame for Assam’s NRC chaos lies with the Supreme Court but Narendra Modi, BJP will use it happily.

NRC will be implemented in Assam ‘to the last full stop’: BJP president Amit Shah

PTI -
Shah also condemned Banerjee for her warning that there could be civil war and bloodbath, saying the country was divided once in the name of civil war.

Supreme Court warns Centre over NRC, says don’t take coercive action against people not on list

Ritika Jain -
Bench says authorities will have to comply with the legal process in the Citizenship Act, and instructs Attorney General to lay down fair procedure. 

NRC draft excludes 40 lakh people, and Hema Malini thinks she can be CM

Rupanwita Bhattacharjee -
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Govt does not have data on illegal immigrants in Assam: Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi

PTI -
Congress member Gaurav Gogoi also asked whether all the 40 lakh people in the National Registry of Citizens were foreigners. 

Cong didn’t have courage to identify illegal migrants: Amit Shah during NRC debate in Parliament

PTI -
BJP president also asked the Opposition in Rajya Sabha if it wanted to protect illegal Bangladeshis in Assam.

Just as in the state, Delhi’s Assamese too are divided over NRC

Fatima Khan -
A few support NRC on grounds that it will lead to the integration of communities, others call it divisive.
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Opinion

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

Seshadri Chari -
So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

India talked big on Russia-Ukraine mediation. Alaska meet offers a window

Dismiss debate on EC functioning as ‘hoo-haa’, then hail India as ‘robust democracy’

Economy

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Mrinalini Dhyani -
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

Defence

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

National Interest

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Shekhar Gupta -
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?

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