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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicBangladeshi immigrants

Topic: Bangladeshi immigrants

Citizenship Bill can be another Article 370. If only Left would stop its wrong noise

Rajnath Singh has hinted that getting Citizenship Amendment Bill passed in Parliament is as important for Modi govt as ending J&K’s special status.

5 days on, 59 illegal Bangladeshis sent to Kolkata from Bengaluru still await deportation

59 Bangladeshi workers detained by Bengaluru police for illegal stay were brought to Kolkata for deportation last week but the process has been since stuck.

What Bangladeshi media is saying about illegal immigrants from India

The number of illegal immigrants, of which 5 lakh are reportedly Biharis, in Bangladesh is swelling.

NIA chief says Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh spreading its roots in India

At a meeting of Anti-Terrorism Squads, the NIA chief said the JMB was using the guise of immigrants and has spread its activities in Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka & Kerala.

Bangladesh’s high GDP a fitting reply to Amit Shah’s ‘termite’ taunt at illegal immigrants

Instead of fantasising about throwing out illegal immigrants, India should make its economy grow faster and invest more in public-welfare sectors.

Many in Assam look back and wonder: how & when ‘illegal foreigner’ issue turned religious

My father, an AASU general secretary during 1972 agitation, wouldn't approve of this NRC. To him, NRC didn’t mean dehumanising non-indigenous.

Updating NRC in Assam is a grave mistake. BJP govt and SC would do well to leave it alone

NRC doesn’t seem to be about correcting Assam’s ethnic imbalance anymore. It has devolved into a ‘keep Hindus in, keep Muslims out’ sectarianism.

India’s internal migrants had no say in 2019 polls. They probably won’t in 2024 either

Election Commission’s efforts towards ensuring millions of internal migrants can vote has been at best selective, as 2019 polls showed.

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.

Not satisfied with just Assam, BJP now intensifies demand for NRC in West Bengal

As West Bengal also shares a border with Bangladesh, concerns over illegal immigration from across the border have been rife.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.