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Amit Shah attacks Mamata Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi over NRC issue

BJP president Amit Shah says TMC chief against NRC for 'vote-bank' politics, calls upon people to 'uproot' the government.

Shahidul Alam: The photographer whose arrest in Bangladesh has sparked global outrage

Alam is the man behind the award-winning photo agency Drik that put Bangladesh on the global map. Who is this man whose arrest has sparked outrage...

‘Assam is not a dustbin’: Assam Agitation veterans want illegal migrants out

Former CM and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta says Assam is not a dumping ground for illegal migrants.

Supreme Court restrains NRC coordinator & registrar general from talking to media

The bench warns the two officials that it could have sent them to jail for contempt.

Fighting her own students, Bangladesh PM Hasina shouldn’t take Modi’s support for granted

Bangladesh’s students have written the course of history, from 1952 to the present, in their own blood. School and college students have been out on...

There’s an indecent haste among parties to use Assam issue as a springboard to power

Assam’s NRC has become a political tool that ignores social, security, economic and humanitarian costs.

Assam has taken the lead, now NRC should be implemented across India, says governor

Jagdish Mukhi says the exercise will have a bearing on 'security robustness' of the country, adds it will be deemed 'historic' in years to come.

Assam’s citizens’ registry mess shows ‘India is for Indians’ notion is hypocritical

'Patriotic' BJP-ruled states too have failed in processing all documents sought by NRC, leaving many bona fide Indian citizens in the lurch. That “India is...

Bangladeshis top the list of foreigners visiting India for medical tourism

More than 2 lakh Bangladeshi tourists came to India in 2017 followed by 55,681 from Afghanistan and 47,640 from Iraq, says tourism minister.

India ignores citizens overstaying in UK, US but wants to declare 40 lakh in Assam illegal

The UK says there are between 75,000 and 1,00,000 illegal Indians in the country, India claims the figure is around 2,000.

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

Hit by mortar shell, but still fighting—BSF heroes of Op Sindoor honoured with gallantry medals

President of India has honoured 16 BSF personnel with gallantry medals for show of exemplary courage in the 87-hour ‘war’ between India and Pakistan that followed the launch of Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.