Two Dead, Several Wounded In Assam As Protests Escalate Over Citizenship Law
Violent mobs in Assam torched buildings and clashed with police on Thursday, leaving two dead and 11 with bullet wounds,...
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Protesters Set Fire To Train Stations In India Over Citizenship Law
Protesters attacked train stations in India’s northeast, authorities said on Thursday, angry over a new law that would make it...
India Deploys Troops To Curb Violent Protests Over Citizenship Law
India moved thousands of troops into Assam on Thursday after violent protests overnight against a new law that would make...
Protests Flare As Parliament Set To Vote On Contentious Citizenship Bill
India’s ruling Hindu nationalists pushed for final parliamentary approval on Wednesday for a law that critics say undermines the country’s...
Anti-CAB protests rock Northeast
Large parts of the northeast on Tuesday simmered over protests by students' unions and Left-democratic organisations against the contentious Citizenship...
Protests Erupt As India Pushes For Religion-Based Citizenship Bill
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in India on Monday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered a controversial...
NRC In Assam Targeting Religious Minorities: US Commission On Religious Freedom
A federal US commission on international religious freedom has alleged that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is...
UN Refugee Agency Takes Up Case Of Potential Stateless In India
The United Nations (U.N.) refugee agency said on Wednesday it was holding talks with India about its citizenship register in...
As They Build India’s First Camp For Illegals, Some Workers Fear Detention There
Across a river in a remote part of India’s northeast, labourers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to...
AFPSA Extended For Six More Months In Assam
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) has been extended for six months in Assam effective from August 28 after...
Assam Leaves Nearly Two Million People Off Citizens’ List, Their Fate Remains Uncertain
Nearly 2 million people have been left off a list of citizens released on Saturday in Assam, after a mammoth...
Assam On Alert Ahead Of Publication Of National Register of Citizens
Tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police were deployed in the border state of Assam on Friday, the eve...
The Silence Is The Loudest Sound In Kashmir Today
As India celebrates her 73rd year of independence from British rule, ragged children thread their way through traffic in Delhi,...
Death Toll From Floods Reaches 147, Hundreds Of Thousands Evacuated
The death toll from floods in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 147, state authorities said on...
Supreme Court Allows A Month Longer For Citizens’ List In Assam
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the deadline for the publication of a citizenship list for Assam by a month...
Assam NRC: India Can’t Be Refugee Capital Of The World, Centre Tells SC
The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that lakhs of people had been wrongly included in the final draft...
