The Big Picture – Police Forces: Autonomy or unchecked Independence, Rajya Sabha TV

Assam: The Citizenship Question, NDTV

NDTV PUBLISHED ON: JULY 29, 2018 In less than 24 hours, the Assam government will release the National Register of Citizens, a register that proposes to identify valid Indian citizens and those that the government deems as illegal immigrants. It’s a move that will likely have a profound impact in the lives of millions in […]

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 […]

1 Year And Counting, Still No Bail For Activists Jailed After Bhima Koregaon Violence, NDTV

NDTVPUBLISHED ON: AUGUST 29, 2019 It has now been well over a year since the activists arrested after the Bhima Koregaon violence were put in jail, apparently because they conspired to attack the Prime Minister or lead Maoist terror attacks. For one year all of these activists – scholars, lawyers, teachers and others – have […]