BJP Races To Tripura Win, Congress Edge In Meghalaya, NDTV

Rights group terms it largest incident of making people ‘stateless’ in decades

The HinduPublished on 31 August 2019SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A New Delhi-based rights group has termed the exclusion of 19,06,657 people from the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) as the largest incident of making people “stateless” in decades. Sri Lanka’s 1948 declaration of about 9,75,000 descendants of Indian-origin Tamils as ‘non-nationals is the next largest purging move’, the […]

India Needs A Refugee Law, Not Proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2016

Table of contents 1. India needs a refugee law 2. Proposed Amendment of the Citizenship Act 2.1 Proposed amendment of the Citizenship Act 3. The reality of persecution of non-Muslim minorities in South Asia 3.1 Bangladesh: The ever decreasing Hindu populations 3.2 Pakistan 3.3. Afghanistan 4. Opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 4.1 Opposition […]

BJP Wins Tripura, Ahead In Nagaland; Meghalaya Hung, NDTV

NDTV The BJP expanded its Northeast footprint today with a spectacular win in Tripura, ending the two-decade run of the CPM’s Manik Sarkar as chief minister. In Nagaland, the BJP looks set to form government along with its new regional partner Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, if the alliance holds on to current leads. In Meghalaya, […]