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Why citizenship amendment bill has created a row

Opposition to the citizenship amendment bill stems from fears that it will give legitimacy to illegal migrants in India. ’Mint’ decodes the controversy surrounding the bill

2 min read16 Jan 2019
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BJP decides to set up panel to review Assam citizenship bill

The panel will assess the measures needed for safeguarding the ethnic Assamese, says home minister Rajnath Singh

2 min read3 Jan 2019
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Assam NRC: Supreme Court relief for those left out

The Supreme Court has ordered resumption of filing of claims and objections by around 40 lakh people who were left out in the draft Assam NRC

1 min read19 Sep 2018
Politics

‘Illegal immigration in Assam not a religious issue, but an ethnic one’

Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, who spearheaded the Assam movement from 1979 to 1985, on illegal immigration and the National Register of Citizens

6 min read20 Aug 2018
Politics

NRC Assam: Hope rests on scraps of paper

Assam has excluded four million people from its National Register of Citizens (NRC). Now, it doesn’t know what to do with them

7 min read2 Aug 2018
Politics

BJP promises Indian citizenship for Bangladeshi Hindu refugees

Shah said Assam has become a shelter for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and the Congress government in the state is doing nothing to deport them

1 min read26 Apr 2015
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Violent memories

Sanjukta Sharma on a new project on the Nellie massacre and how art can revive memories of violence

3 min read28 Feb 2015
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Rohingya boat capsizes off Myanmar as cyclone looms

Cyclone Mahasen threatens camps for tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya living in makeshift housing

2 min read14 May 2013
Politics

‘Illegal migration has no role in the current conflict’

People are using phrases like illegal migration very loosely, says Hazarika

5 min read13 Aug 2012
Politics

Assam’s anguish

Assam’s anguish

2 min read27 Jul 2012
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