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Sabrang India
Yet Another NRC Re-verification Plea Moved Before SC
14 May 2021
Assam NRC Coordinator moves SC seeking comprehensive and time bound re-verification citing “glaring anomalies of a serious nature”
Syed Ubaidur Rahman
Stop NPR to Bring Back Peace in Delhi and Beyond
26 Feb 2020
Delhi violence make it amply clear that NPR will not be a smooth process. Now protest sites need to coordinate a boycott and Opposition-ruled states must stick to their guns.
Newsclick Report
Burden of Proving Citizenship on Claimant: Gauhati HC
25 Feb 2020
Nur Begum and Jabeda Begum had produced eight and 14 documents, respectively, supporting their plea challenging the orders of Foreigners Tribunals, which had declared them foreigners/illegal…
Newsclick Report
Assam NRC Rejection Certificates to be Issued After 1 Month, Says Official
18 Feb 2020
The reasons for rejecting the applications of 19 lakh people left out of the NRC would be mentioned in detail in the rejection slips.
Prasenjit Biswas
CAA and Laws in the Making in Northeast India
20 Jan 2020
The NRC exercise in Assam gave rise to two categories of people – those who are part of a ‘silent invasion’ and ‘external aggression’ by being Muslims of Bengal origin and the other, non-immigrant
Ashmita Sharma, Saqib Khan
CAA-NRC: Hindutva’s Sinister Plot
27 Dec 2019
With the CAA-NRC combine, a deeper problem of citizenship would follow wherein not only Muslims but large sections of the country’s population too would face the burden of proving their citizenship…
Sandipan Talukdar
Protests Erupt in Assam as the Union Cabinet Approves CAB
04 Dec 2019
On the morning of Wednesday, December 4, the Union Cabinet passed the CAB in their meeting and will place the bill in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on December 9 and 10 respectively.
Tarique Anwar
How Assam NRC Made a Woman Break Barriers and Fight for People in Need
01 Nov 2019
After Ashraf Ali walked out of a detention centre following a two years, two months and seventeen days-long battle, his wife Tara Khatoon vowed to make sure that others don’t suffer the trauma they…
Ajaz Ashraf
Bangladeshis Say Amit Shah Playing Jinnah’s Game
08 Oct 2019
Shah’s escalation of the NRC issue will only bolster the Jamaat-e-Islami, and its brand of majoritarian Islamist politics.
Seema Guha
NRC Looms Over Modi-Hasina Talks
05 Oct 2019
A shift in India’s position points to a future where deportation may come up.