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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicForeigners Act

Topic: Foreigners Act

‘No option to return’ — Manipur court says 71 Myanmarese held are refugees, not illegal immigrants

Manipur Police found 71 Myanmarese nationals crossed over to India after coup & settled down in Moreh. Judicial magistrate extended their judicial custody by 15 days on 10 February.

‘We have nowhere to go’ — Rohingya refugees flee relief camps in Jammu fearing detention

J&K administration Saturday rounded up over 160 Rohingya refugees and placed them in 'holding centres' set up under Foreigner's Act.

Gauhati High Court’s citizenship order is flawed because it ignores Indian reality

While putting onus on people to prove their citizenship, Indian courts have failed to establish some kind of standard for how one can discharge such a burden.

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.