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Topic: Bangladeshis

What’s the 1950 law Nehru put on hold that BJP vows to ‘unleash on Bangladeshi Miyas’ in Assam

BJP manifesto promises protection of land, heritage & dignity of indigenous people by using 1950 law to 'expedite process of detection and pushback of illegal immigrants'.

Hasina calls Bangladesh polls a ‘farce’, demands cancellation & Yunus’s resignation

New Delhi: Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister called for the cancellation of the elections held Thursday, labelling the whole exercise as a “farce”...

Assam BJP’s deleted video showing Himanta ‘firing’ at Muslims draws Congress’s ire—’call to genocide’

Through his shrill rhetoric since joining the BJP from the Congress in 2015, Assam CM has painted Bangladeshi infiltration as an existential threat to the Northeast state.

Muslim migrant worker from Jharkhand dubbed ‘Bangladeshi’, assaulted in Karnataka’s Mangaluru

The four attackers are suspected to be members of a fringe Hindutva outfit and are currently absconding. Police have booked them.

38 Bangladesh citizens, living illegally in Agra for years, to be deported on 13 January

The Border Security Force will hand-over the group—comprising 20 men, 10 women and eight children—to the Bangladesh Border Guard in Kolkata.

What’s now called ‘Bangladeshi’ language was excluded by secular sadhu-bhasha long ago

Amit Malviya is correct that Sylheti is not the same as Bengali. But what he and his team seem to lack is any sense of the history beyond that statement.

‘Bangladeshi language’ row: Amit Malviya defends Delhi Police letter, Oppn slams BJP ‘mouthpiece’

TMC, Congress from West Bengal & the Northeast come all out to slam BJP cell head as he argues that there is 'no language called Bengali' that covers all its 'variants'.

121 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants identified, to be deported. Delhi Police now hunts for ‘syndicates’

FIR registered at Narela police station under relevant sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita & Foreigners Act. Five have been interrogated who had rented houses, say cops.

Time to break out the (caramelised) popcorn

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Bangladeshis figure most in foreigner list as police focus on those entering with fake Indian passport

According to IGI police, 12 foreigners from Bangladesh, three from Myanmar and Nepal each, and an Afghan have been arrested. 23 ‘agents’ were also held for running fake passport syndicates.

On Camera

Asiya Andrabi is no women’s rights advocate. She does not speak for Indian Muslims

International news media calling Asiya Andrabi a defender of women’s rights shows how narratives are constructed and what they choose to omit.

Tanker with 600,000 barrels of Iranian crude shifts course from India to China midway

The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.

India commissions its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—INS Aridhaman

INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.