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Saturday, September 20, 2025
TopicCitizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019

Topic: Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019

How a proposed Rs 3,000-cr fund cut could affect school education, teachers’ salaries

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

NIA arrests RTI activist Akhil Gogoi amid Assam unrest, charges him under amended UAPA 

RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, who has also been charged with waging war against the nation, could now be the first to be tried as a terrorist under new UAPA.  

Curfew relaxed in Guwahati & parts of Dibrugarh

Violent protests broke out in Assam with agitators engaging in pitched battles with the police, after the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed on 13 December.

Assam govt employees to cease work on 18 December in protest against citizenship law

The Sadou Asam Karmachari Parishad says they have always opposed the Bill and will continue to do so until the Act is revoked.

Modi risks losing focus on Indian economy as protests over citizenship law intensify

RBI has cut interest rates five times this year to support growth. Still, there’s little sign of a revival with consumer demand and investment remaining weak.

After citizenship law, Karnataka’s Muslims rush to mosques to update documents for NRC

Karnataka’s BJP govt says it will implement NRC when it is announced nationwide, and community leaders are helping Muslim families get documents in order.

Discovery of Pakistan – How Modi & Shah have dramatically re-hyphenated India with Pakistan

India invested 25 years after Cold War to de-hyphenate itself from Pakistan. Modi & Amit Shah have squandered those gains purely for domestic consumption.

BJP’s ‘historical inaccuracy’ to Gandhi’s second death and new face of women empowerment

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

Like other Congress CMs, Kamal Nath says MP won’t implement citizenship law

Punjab’s Amarinder Singh and Chhattisgarh’s Bhupesh Baghel have also said they will follow the Congress’ stand against the controversial new law.

Bengal, Punjab & Kerala refuse to roll out citizenship law. But can they?

As protests against citizenship law rage on in the country, legal experts weigh in on if it’s constitutionally possible for states to resist implementation of the law.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.