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Topic: NRC

Decoding National Population Register: What it is & its link to NRC

The Union Cabinet has approved funds worth Rs 8,500 crore to update the National Population Register.

Double whammy for BJP, Modi’s ‘post-truth’ speech and ‘Citizen’s Register of Nation’

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint

Why Modi and Jaishankar are safe from global censure on NRC & CAA, for now

Jaishankar cancelling a meeting with Democrat Pramila Jayapal in the US is just another show of Modi government’s belligerence, at home and abroad.

All-India NRC will certainly fail. Here’s what Modi govt should do for its citizenship plan

To believe Modi govt can put 130 crore people through a process like NRC on such a shaky documentary foundation is to ask for more trouble.

Modi speech fact-check: From NRC to detention centres, here’s where PM went wrong

It’s not just Home Minister Amit Shah who has spoken about a nationwide NRC. President Kovind had told a joint sitting of Parliament about it on 20 June 2019.

BJP MP Tejasvi Surya says NRC will be implemented, day after PM said no decision on it yet

Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya says NRC was part of BJP’s manifesto, and people gave the party the mandate to implement it across the country.

PM Modi’s ‘panic’ speech, praying to ‘baba EVM’ in Jharkhand and mammoth cost of NRC

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint

OIC asks Modi govt to ‘ensure safety of Muslim minority’, months after plenary invite

In February, OIC invited India to attend the plenary after five decades. Now it has expressed concern over developments like scrapping of Article 370, Ayodhya verdict & CAA.

Jharkhand shows difference between state & LS polls. Nationalism, religion not enough

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

With CAA, Kashmir, NRC, Amit Shah has come out of PM Modi’s shadow

Piloting triple talaq law, removing J&K special status and bulldozing through CAA in first few months as home minister, Amit Shah stamps his own mark on Modi government.

On Camera

Mahindra is gearing up for future buyers. Unveils limited edition ‘Bat’ BE6, 4 new concepts

This is the first time Mahindra is making an ‘all-in-one’ platform like global carmakers. However, it will most likely skip hybrid vehicles.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?