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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

The influencer war that took rural creator Pujarini Pradhan global

As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.