Citizenship

The framing of rules under the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act -- mandatory for its implementation -- is pending two years after the law came into effect.

Advocacy against the law like the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not a crime, former JNU student leader Umar Khalid told a Delhi court today, asserting that the police pressured the witnesses to give statements in the riots conspiracy case.

The Gauhati High Court has set aside a Foreigners Tribunal's ex-parte decision to strip a family of citizenship in Assam and said such judgements affect the fundamental rights of a person

BJP's ally National People's Party leader Agatha Sangma on Sunday demanded repeal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at a meeting of constituents of ruling NDA as well as at the all-party meeting convened ahead of Winter Session in Parliament.

Condemning AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi's 'Shaheen Bagh' threat if the Citizenship Amendment Act was not withdrawn, BJP National General Secretary C T Ravi on Tuesday compared his mindset to that of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Uttar Pradesh chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday again used the term "abba jaan" as a jibe, threatening strict action against those who incite passion over the Citizenship Amendment act.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of farm laws, prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind today urged the government to take back the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as well.

Content promoting hate surged in India on topics from elections to Covid to the 2019 protests against a new citizenship law, show Facebook's internal documents reviewed by NDTV.

The Assam government said it has earmarked about 134 hectare for relocating the evicted families of Gorukhuti in Darrang district provided they are valid citizens besides a set of other requirements.

In a major victory for H-1B employers, a federal court has approved a settlement under which the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has agreed to qualify market research analyst as a speciality occupation for the purposes of determining H-1B vis

Delhi High Court asked Delhi Police to place before it the latest position of cases relating to incidents of violence in Jamia Millia Islamia University in December 2019 which had occurred in relation to student protests against the Citizenship Act.

An Indian man has been deported from Australia for attacking Sikhs several times last year and earlier this year, the country's immigration and citizenship minister tweeted.

Durga pujas themed on the issues of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the partition of the country in 1947 featured among the list of "Serar Sera Puraskar" (Best of the best award) announced by the West Bengal government on Monday.

Bhandari Das fled from Bangladesh to India, an ally, in 1967 along with her husband and two children to escape "religious persecution" in her then hometown in Sylhet. She has lived as a foreigner at a village in Assam's Cachar district since then.

The Supreme Court Monday came to the rescue of a student who was rusticated for attempting to organise an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest, by permitting him to take his sixth-semester examination for graduation from a Lucknow-based university.

The framing of rules under the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act -- mandatory for its implementation -- is pending two years after the law came into effect.

Advocacy against the law like the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not a crime, former JNU student leader Umar Khalid told a Delhi court today, asserting that the police pressured the witnesses to give statements in the riots conspiracy case.

The Gauhati High Court has set aside a Foreigners Tribunal's ex-parte decision to strip a family of citizenship in Assam and said such judgements affect the fundamental rights of a person

BJP's ally National People's Party leader Agatha Sangma on Sunday demanded repeal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at a meeting of constituents of ruling NDA as well as at the all-party meeting convened ahead of Winter Session in Parliament.

Condemning AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi's 'Shaheen Bagh' threat if the Citizenship Amendment Act was not withdrawn, BJP National General Secretary C T Ravi on Tuesday compared his mindset to that of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Uttar Pradesh chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday again used the term "abba jaan" as a jibe, threatening strict action against those who incite passion over the Citizenship Amendment act.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of farm laws, prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind today urged the government to take back the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as well.

Content promoting hate surged in India on topics from elections to Covid to the 2019 protests against a new citizenship law, show Facebook's internal documents reviewed by NDTV.

The Assam government said it has earmarked about 134 hectare for relocating the evicted families of Gorukhuti in Darrang district provided they are valid citizens besides a set of other requirements.

In a major victory for H-1B employers, a federal court has approved a settlement under which the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has agreed to qualify market research analyst as a speciality occupation for the purposes of determining H-1B vis

Delhi High Court asked Delhi Police to place before it the latest position of cases relating to incidents of violence in Jamia Millia Islamia University in December 2019 which had occurred in relation to student protests against the Citizenship Act.

An Indian man has been deported from Australia for attacking Sikhs several times last year and earlier this year, the country's immigration and citizenship minister tweeted.

Durga pujas themed on the issues of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the partition of the country in 1947 featured among the list of "Serar Sera Puraskar" (Best of the best award) announced by the West Bengal government on Monday.

Bhandari Das fled from Bangladesh to India, an ally, in 1967 along with her husband and two children to escape "religious persecution" in her then hometown in Sylhet. She has lived as a foreigner at a village in Assam's Cachar district since then.

The Supreme Court Monday came to the rescue of a student who was rusticated for attempting to organise an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest, by permitting him to take his sixth-semester examination for graduation from a Lucknow-based university.