Citizenship act

BJP working president JP Nadda further accused the Congress leader of speaking without knowing all the attendant facts. read more

The NPR is a register of usual residents of the country. It is being prepared at the local (village\/sub-town), subdistrict, district, state and national levels under provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens... read more

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has been facing a wave of protests on the streets and campuses across the country as students and others have questioned its intentions over the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA. read more

“We need to know more about what I am protesting about. The head must also join with the heart in protest,” Sen said on being asked about nationwide CAA-NPR-NRC protests. read more

It isn’t clear how the boycott will work on the ground. State government officials, who are tasked by the Census Commissioner under the Union Home Ministry to go house-to-house for the first phase of the decadal headcount in April-May this year, are... read more

The students barged into the office premises after breaking the lock on the main gate and raised slogans against the Vice Chancellor Najma Akhtar. Read on to know more... read more

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Kishor, who has criticised his own party over its support to the citizenship act, had targeted the Congress in December last year questioned the absence of Congress brass in the protests against CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NR... read more

The Union minister also urged the workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to visit every household and “bust the lies and misinformation” being spread against CAA. read more

The home ministry, however, is yet to frame the rules for the act. read more

CJI Bobde said never heard of petitions like this asking that an Act should be declared constitutional. read more

Swapan Dasgupta, Visva Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, some faculty members, staff and local BJP leaders accompanying the BJP MP had to stay inside a room for four hours after the seminar ended with students staging an agitation outside.... read more

Sadaf Jafar, Pawan Rao Ambedkar, former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer SR Darapuri and nine others arrested after the protests last month were granted bail by a local court in Lucknow on Saturday. read more

Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh also asserted that the amended Citizenship Act was not against the poor and accused Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of misguiding the people on the law. read more

The Congress general secretary lashed out at the Uttar Pradesh government for arresting people without any enquiry. read more