Topic: National Register of Citizens
Assam’s NRC wound was re-opened and then conveniently forgotten by India
India has moved on from Assam — to animated rage about nationwide NRC, the discomfort with CAA and now, the biggest threat of them all — the coronavirus.
No social media posts on CAA-NRC: Delhi court’s bail conditions for Shaheen Bagh protestors
The bail conditions were imposed on three men arrested last week for violating the lockdown when they refused to leave Shaheen Bagh protest site.
Assam NRC coordinator accuses Prateek Hajela of non-renewal of service as data goes missing
The new state NRC coordinator said that the meeting for a formal order to renew the contract with Wipro was only held on 30 January this year.
Hundreds of children, students & senior citizens march towards Jantar Mantar against CAA
Dr Kafeel Khan's wife and Sharjeel Imam's brother also participated in the march taken out under the banner of Welfare Party of India.
Bengal is the new UP, the most critical state election in Modi’s second term
The defining state election this time — the one with the greatest bearing on the next Lok Sabha elections — is not UP but West Bengal.
Two reasons that can keep CAA-NRC protests from evolving into a larger anti-Modi movement
How do you get Hindus, farmers, workers to join and keep alive the protests against Modi government? JP and Morarji Desai had lessons.
Ambedkar said protests were unconstitutional. But what about protests to restore Constitution?
The anti-CAA/NRC protests in India are public agitations that demand adherence to the Constitution, not a departure from it.
Loving freely, right to privacy, NOTA, Ram Mandir — 10 historic SC judgments of the decade
ThePrint takes a look at 10 key verdicts delivered by the Supreme Court in the last 10 years that have a bearing on the country and its citizens across all states.
Modi’s speech on CAA — Hindu says it’s a ‘twist’, TOI calls it ‘spirited response’
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Vajpayee-Advani imagined an all-India NRC and Modi-Shah added a Muslim filter
All-India NRC and CAA are both part of the same law, the Citizenship Act, added by Vajpayee-Advani in 2003 and Modi-Shah in 2019, respectively.
Budget 2020 is now useless. Modi govt must present a new one
Covid has ensured Modi govt won’t meet 20% growth in tax collection target. That would be a terrible assumption to make in a pandemic-hit economy.
Can schools & students be trusted with Covid norms or should classes begin as curve flattens?
Over two lakh parents across India have opposed the Ministry of Home Affairs’ plan to reopen schools in July.
Defence
Chinese troops present in sizeable numbers at LAC, India has done what’s needed: Rajnath
Defence Minister says India and China perceive LAC differently, leading to regular jostling; Beijing ‘should seriously deliberate’ and resolve the issue amicably.
The Chinese are so predictable, Modi & Shah should’ve seen them coming on 5 August 2019
India should’ve anticipated the Chinese appearance in Ladakh, even the timing of it, when the status of Jammu & Kashmir was changed.