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This election season, the ruling BJP in the border state Manipur has opened a new front against the Congress over the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA.

Around 500 people, mostly women, gathered near the Jaffrabad metro station in northeast Delhi on Saturday night in protest against the new citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), blocking a major road.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today indicated that he was not entirely on board with the National Population Register or the NPR in its current form. The National Population Register, he indicated, should be in "old format" -- meaning he wanted all the new questions to be dropped from the questionnaire and have the version used during Census.

The Economist - whose sister concern Economist Intelligence Unit ranked India 10 places lower in the Democracy Index earlier this week -- has dedicated its latest cover to what it calls "Intolerant India" and criticised the Narendra Modi government over the new citizenship law CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), commenting that it "imp...

Much of the resistance to the CAA and its prequel, the National Register for Citizens or NRC, has advocated that it is Muslims who will be marginalised and forced to prove they belong in India.

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella said on Monday he was saddened by "what is happening", amid protests across the country over the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). "I think what is happening is sad... It's just bad...I would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant who comes to India and creates the next unicorn in India or bec...

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday termed the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) a "discriminatory and divisive" law whose "sinister" purpose was to divide people on religious lines, and said that the National Population Register (NPR) in form and content was "disguised NRC (National Register of Citizens)".

Hundreds of protesters kickstarted the new year by taking a mass pledge to "defend the Constitution" against the amended Citizenship Act at New Delhi's India Gate on Wednesday. Even as slogans against the controversial law and the impending National Register of Citizens rent the air, traffic on roads circling the area slowed to a crawl.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will for the first time visit Assam today since protests first broke out in the state earlier this month over the amended Citizenship Act. Hours ahead of the "Save Constitution-Save India" protest march that he will lead in Guwahati this afternoon, he launched an attack on the ruling BJP and said that National Register ...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi today made a veiled attack on Home Minister Amit Shah and the ruling BJP over Mr Shah's "understand the chronology" remark on the National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act at an event earlier this year. The youth in the country "will not budge", Ms Gandhi tweeted amid widespread protests across the ...

The Congress on Thursday claimed that details collected from the fresh questions included in the National Population Register are linked to the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and are part of a conspiracy by the government to push citizens' list in the "garb of NPR".

Amid various controversies and protests surrounding the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Congress in Madhya Pradesh has decided to hold a rally in Bhopal against the new bill and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Chief Minister Kamal Nath is expected to lead the rally which would start from Rang Mahal square and proceed towards Minto Hall.

Amid countrywide protests against the amended Citizenship Act, Janata Dal United leader Prashant Kishor today tweeted "ways to stop the implementation" of the new citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens as he attacked the ruling BJP. His consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) has been widely credited for helping th...

The fight against the new citizenship law is "not just the issue of Muslims" but concerns all Indians and there should be a sustained struggle against the legislation, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has claimed.

A Congress corporator and 48 others were arrested in Ahmedabad on Friday for attack on police personnel during a protest in the city against the new citizenship law and the proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC), officials said.

This election season, the ruling BJP in the border state Manipur has opened a new front against the Congress over the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA.

Around 500 people, mostly women, gathered near the Jaffrabad metro station in northeast Delhi on Saturday night in protest against the new citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), blocking a major road.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today indicated that he was not entirely on board with the National Population Register or the NPR in its current form. The National Population Register, he indicated, should be in "old format" -- meaning he wanted all the new questions to be dropped from the questionnaire and have the version used during Census.

The Economist - whose sister concern Economist Intelligence Unit ranked India 10 places lower in the Democracy Index earlier this week -- has dedicated its latest cover to what it calls "Intolerant India" and criticised the Narendra Modi government over the new citizenship law CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), commenting that it "imp...

Much of the resistance to the CAA and its prequel, the National Register for Citizens or NRC, has advocated that it is Muslims who will be marginalised and forced to prove they belong in India.

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella said on Monday he was saddened by "what is happening", amid protests across the country over the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). "I think what is happening is sad... It's just bad...I would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant who comes to India and creates the next unicorn in India or bec...

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday termed the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) a "discriminatory and divisive" law whose "sinister" purpose was to divide people on religious lines, and said that the National Population Register (NPR) in form and content was "disguised NRC (National Register of Citizens)".

Hundreds of protesters kickstarted the new year by taking a mass pledge to "defend the Constitution" against the amended Citizenship Act at New Delhi's India Gate on Wednesday. Even as slogans against the controversial law and the impending National Register of Citizens rent the air, traffic on roads circling the area slowed to a crawl.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will for the first time visit Assam today since protests first broke out in the state earlier this month over the amended Citizenship Act. Hours ahead of the "Save Constitution-Save India" protest march that he will lead in Guwahati this afternoon, he launched an attack on the ruling BJP and said that National Register ...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi today made a veiled attack on Home Minister Amit Shah and the ruling BJP over Mr Shah's "understand the chronology" remark on the National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act at an event earlier this year. The youth in the country "will not budge", Ms Gandhi tweeted amid widespread protests across the ...

The Congress on Thursday claimed that details collected from the fresh questions included in the National Population Register are linked to the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and are part of a conspiracy by the government to push citizens' list in the "garb of NPR".

Amid various controversies and protests surrounding the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Congress in Madhya Pradesh has decided to hold a rally in Bhopal against the new bill and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Chief Minister Kamal Nath is expected to lead the rally which would start from Rang Mahal square and proceed towards Minto Hall.

Amid countrywide protests against the amended Citizenship Act, Janata Dal United leader Prashant Kishor today tweeted "ways to stop the implementation" of the new citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens as he attacked the ruling BJP. His consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) has been widely credited for helping th...

The fight against the new citizenship law is "not just the issue of Muslims" but concerns all Indians and there should be a sustained struggle against the legislation, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has claimed.

A Congress corporator and 48 others were arrested in Ahmedabad on Friday for attack on police personnel during a protest in the city against the new citizenship law and the proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC), officials said.