The December 15 agitation was organised to commemorate the police crackdown of 2019, when Delhi Police personnel entered the Jamia campus amid protests against the CAA, an incident that sparked nation ...
The 40-year-old woman had entered India from Bangladesh in 2007 and had been living in Sribhumi, while the 61-year-old man, who came to India in 1975, had been living in Cachar, their lawyer said.
Revenue and Disaster Management minister Suresh Pujari assured them that they will receive all the benefits and opportunities as Indian citizens, including land distribution for the landless and caste ...
The Matua community, a marginalised Hindu group, had been facing severe difficulties linking their records to the 2002 voters’ list during the SIR process.
AASU President Utpal Sarma said the new order would open the “floodgates” for illegal Hindu Bangladeshis to settle in Assam, which the people of the state cannot accept.
Originally, under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), which came into force last year, members of these persecuted minorities who came to India on or before 31 December 2014 were granted Indian cit ...